Job Title: Lead Engineer

Corporate Title: Director

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• Corporate Banking is a technology centric business, with an increasing move to real-time processing, an increasing appetite from customers for integrated systems and access to supporting data. This means that technology is more important than ever for business.
• Deutsche Bank is one of the few banks with the scale and network to compete aggressively in this space, and the breadth of investment in this area is unmatched by our peers. Joining the team is a unique opportunity to help rebuild the core of some of our most mission critical processing systems from the ground-up.
• Our Corporate Bank Technology team is a global team of 3000 Engineers (and growing!) across 30 countries. The primary businesses that we support within Corporate Bank are Cash Management, Securities Services, Trade Finance and Trust & Agency Services. CB Technology supports these businesses through ‘vertical’ CIO aligned teams and by ‘horizontals’ such as Client Connectivity, Surveillance and Regulatory, Infrastructure, Architecture, Production, and Risk & Control.
• We are seeking a highly skilled, hands-on Director in Trust and Agency Services Technology to drive innovation, architecture, and delivery in a fast-paced environment. As a senior Engineering lead, you will lead by example, applying deep technical expertise in design, building and implementing robust, scalable, and secure solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform the ecosystem, ensuring the organization remains at the forefront of technological advancements in the industry.
• As Engineering lead, you will lead some of the major transformation initiatives retiring vendors or legacy products to inhouse builds as distributed applications on cloud platform. The role requires engineering fluency rather than hands-on expertise, the ability to ask the right questions, evaluate trade-offs, and guide teams toward sound technical decisions.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy,

• Best in class leave policy.
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

Engineering Leadership and Delivery Efficiency

• Work closely with engineers and develop best technical design and implement high quality software solutions.
• Provide engineering execution excellence, as well as technical vision and direction, to ensure the engineering team is aligned with the strategy of the bank.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure high quality code and adherence to best engineering practices.
• Actively participate in technical solutions and provide end-to-end ownership of technology solutions delivered to meet requirements to realize both functional and non-functional capabilities.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in a timely manner.

Agile and Business Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with engineers and develop best technical design and implement high quality software solutions.
• Work closely with business analysts, architects & other stakeholders to understand and develop the solution.
• Lead the team to be truly agile in their delivery and deliver as per the plan.

People, Culture and Innovation

• Mentor and coach junior developers to improve their technical skills.
• Drive the strong Engineering culture and adopt the bank’s strategy into the team.
• Drive the team to innovate and automate quickly using AI tools within the bank.
• Leverage AI tools for automating any stages in the SDLC cycle.
• Leverage AI to innovate into helping operations and business utilize common platforms into bank to help them scale.

Your skills and experience

• Technical Leadership - Own end-to-end technical design and development of payment platforms, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.
• 18+ years of industry experience in software development and worked at Director or equivalent roles.
• Strong understanding of modern engineering ecosystems (cloud, distributed systems, DevOps, data platforms).
• Proven success delivering large-scale, multi-team initiatives.
• Deep experience operating in Agile enterprise environments.
• Excellent stakeholder, executive communication, and influence skills.
• The candidate must demonstrate excellent software development skills in Java/J2EE technologies, Spring, and Spring Boot Microservices.
• Candidate must have experience of transformation projects like managing retirement of Legacy apps to new distributed applications.
• Experience with Open-source technologies, framework, platforms, and tools.
• Experience in web services (SOAP, REST) and xml technologies.
• Experience in database technologies SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL
• Good understanding of SRE practices and tools.
• Any Cloud experience is good to have

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career.
• Coaching and support from experts in your team.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs.

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.html

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.