Lead Java Engineer (f/m/x) – Foreign Exchange Technology

Position Overview

About the job:

Deutsche Bank Technology in Berlin

DB Technology is a global team of tech specialists, spread across multiple trading hubs and tech centres. We have a strong focus on promoting technical excellence – our engineers work at the forefront of financial services innovation using cutting-edge technologies.

Our Berlin location is our most recent addition to our global network of tech centres and growing strongly. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and to creating excellent opportunities for talented engineers and technologists. Our tech teams and business units use agile ways of working to create #GlobalHausbank solutions from our home market.

Foreign Exchange Technology

We’re looking for a Lead Engineer (f/m/x) in RMS Trade Processing team in Foreign Exchange Technology (FX) domain of the Deutsche Bank.

Global Foreign Exchange (GFX) is a vital part of the DB Investment Bank that provides our clients with many ways to exchange currencies and manage currency risk. Deutsche Bank has been ranked the Overall FX Market Leader by Euromoney FX Survey.

GFX heavily relies on its technology to stay ahead of the competition. Our products are used by thousands of external clients as well as hundreds of internal trading and sales desks and operations. They provide connectivity with brokers, exchanges and clearing houses. Development of our products gives engineers a unique ability to learn business, work with big data and analytics. 

RMS Trade processing is a platform that allows trade capturing and trade life cycle processing of FX&Commodity trades to support groups from Trading and Structuring to Operations under the GFX Trading desk activities.

The current technical stack includes Java, Kotlin, REST web services, Oracle, GCP. We value working with the business to create a product with long-term value and writing robust, simple and well-tested software.

As a Lead Java Engineer (f/m/x), you would drive & contribute to the technology strategy, simplifying the technology stack with cutting edge modern technologies like Google cloud suite and Java micro-services. You would work with architects & Business stakeholders to solve problems with agile methodologies to release features every sprint and deliver high quality software engineering solutions.

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Your key responsibilities

• Responsible for managing or performing work on the bank's IT Platform/Infrastructure including analysis, development, and administration

• Drive and lead entire engineering solutions to accomplish business goals  

• Building reliability and resiliency into solutions with appropriate testing and reviewing throughout the delivery lifecycle

• Ensuring solutions are well architected and in line with product strategy and can be integrated successfully into the end-to-end business process flow

• Mentor and motivate junior team members

• Improve and contribute into existing SDLC and Support processes

Your skills and experiences

• Profound multi-annual experience and excellent knowledge of Java programming language (collections, multi-threading, networking), Frameworks - Spring, Springboot, Hibernate,  SQL and/or noSQL solutions

• Work with messaging queues like Kafka, Solace, IBM MQ, databases technologies of Oracle Exadata, containerization with Docker, Kubernetes etc.

• Shift-left testing with TDD/BDD, Jacoco, Cucumber, Junit, Mockito, Gatling etc.

• Good Knowledge of Microservices Architecture, Grafana, Open-API, Rest Services & Google Cloud Platform

• People and project leadership experience

• Experience with modern SDLC tools - Git, JIRA, Artifactory, Jenkins/TeamCity, OpenShift

• Experience of working within Agile frameworks is essential as are strong communication skills and teamwork

What we offer

We provide you with a comprehensive portfolio of benefits and offerings to support both, your private and professional needs.

Emotionally and mentally balanced
A positive mind helps us master the challenges of everyday life – both professionally and privately. We offer consultation in difficult life situations as well as mental health awareness trainings.

Physically thriving
We support you in staying physically fit through an offering to maintain personal health and a professional environment. You can benefit from health check-ups; vaccination drives as well as advice on healthy living and nutrition.

Socially connected
Networking opens up new perspectives, helps us thrive professionally and personally as well as strengthens our self-confidence and well-being. You can benefit from PME family service, FitnessCenter Job, flexible working (e.g parttime, hybrid working, job tandem) as well as an extensive culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Financially secure
We provide you with financial security not only during your active career but also for the future. You can benefit from offerings such as pension plans, banking services, company bicycle or “Deutschlandticket”.

Since our offerings slightly vary across locations, please contact your recruiter with specific questions.

This job is available in full and parttime.

In case of any recruitment related questions, please get in touch with Luisa Moderzinski.

Contact Luisa Moderzinski: 0151 56516413

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