Job Description:
Job Title Senior Technical Expert
Location Birmingham
Corporate Title Vice President
The Corporate Bank sits at the core of Deutsche Bank’s client franchise and is a market leader in Cash Management, Trade Finance and Lending, Securities Services, and Trust and Agency services.
This role operates within Corporate Bank Production as a Senior Technology Subject Matter Expert for the Client Access & Services subdivision. Client Access & Services, serves the critical client facing applications categorised under Payment Initiation, Account Services and Client Centric Technology.
Corporate Bank is focused on continuously improving production stability and our client experience, underpinned by a strong engineering culture that drives reduced incidents, faster resolution, and controlled change across the Production environment.
What we’ll offer you
A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.
You can expect:
- Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
- Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
- Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
- A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
- The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year
Your key responsibilities
- Be the technical subject matter expert for a suite of leading-edge applications in Corporate Banking technology
- Partner with, and influence global stakeholders across development, infrastructure and production to optimise application performance, improve resiliency, reduce risk and manage change conflicts
- Drive a culture of continuous, proactive improvement into the Production environment through automation, monitoring improvements and platform hygiene
- Carry out hands-on technical analysis of the Production platform and business workflows to identify improvement areas
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to align Production initiatives with business goals, using data driven insights to support decision making
- Embed an SRE culture across the organisation, for example by defining and tracking SLOs
Your skills and experience
- Extensive, hands-on experience with Production Application Support and ITIL Practices with a strong leadership and SRE mindset
- Good understanding of modern technologies and complex infrastructure, such as cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure), programming languages (Java, JavaScript, Python), databases (Postgres, BigQuery, MongoDB) and Messaging (MQ, Kafka)
- Experience in application performance monitoring tools such as Geneos, Splunk, Grafana and New Relic
- Understanding of Digital assets like cryptocurrency, tokens and vaults is an advantage
- Understanding of Mobile based technologies is an advantage
- Experience in data analysis and visualisation, with the ability to turn complex data into meaningful commercial insights and clear decision-support outputs
How we’ll support you
- Training and development to help you excel in your career
- A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
- A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
- We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)
About us
Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.
Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.
If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on adjustmentsconcierge@db.com to discuss.
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.
Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.
We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.
