Senior Engineer - Agentic-AI initiative in L1 Surveillance

Deutsche Bank AG; Park Central; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Competitive benefits

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Retail discounts

Bike4Work

Gym benefits

CSR volunteering leave

Job summary

Deutsche Bank AG in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Engineer to lead the Agentic-AI initiative within L1 Surveillance. This VP-level role focuses on architectural alignment, cloud-native AI platforms on Google Cloud, and responsible deployment of agentic workflows.

Hybrid working is available with a strong emphasis on collaboration across IT, risk, and business units. The candidate will stay abreast of frontier models, operationalize AI components, and drive the delivery of business use cases

Qualifications

• Track record of high level engineering capabilities across design, delivery and operation.
• Expert level Python, SOA and event-driven architecture expertise.
• Proven ability to build AI frameworks and agentic workflows with Langgraph, Langchain, Langfuse and AI-tools.
• Experience building cloud-native systems on GCP, containerisation and GitHub CI/CD pipelines.
• Domain understanding of Investment banking or Corporate banking is a plus.
• Ability to apply responsible AI practices and ethical data use.

Responsibilities

• Architectural and design alignment with the organization-wide AI framework.
• Stay current with frontier models and agentic engineering to guide platform direction.
• Operationalise components and ensure deliverables meet business needs.
• Introduce critical guard rails for safe AI deployment.
• Drive delivery of business use cases engaging DevOps, support and business teams.

Skills

Python

SOA

Event-driven architecture

Langgraph

Langchain

Langfuse

AI-tools

GCP

CI/CD

Investment banking knowledge

Tools

Langgraph

Langchain

Langfuse

GitHub CI/CD

GCP

Job description

Job Title Senior Engineer - Agentic-AI initiative in L1 Surveillance

Location Birmingham

Corporate Title Vice President

Level 1 surveillance is a sub-domain in regulatory and Cross Product (RCP) domain. Level 1 surveillance platform (dbSleuth) is the bank's designated platform across the Investment Bank (IB) and Corporate Bank (CB) division to perform regulators-mandated surveillance on Trader Behavior and Client Behavior.

This sub-domain is progressing to be a hybrid-cloud platform on Google Cloud (GCP). The platform handles huge amounts of data ingestion, tailoring and curation, provides infrastructure for GSA (Strat team) to execute their ML surveillance model and deploys an event-driven, SOA and containerized deployment for Case-Management capability.

The platform is now looking to build an AI capability for various business use cases to be used to facilitate more efficient case management.

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

• Architectural and design alignment with organization wide AI framework
• Keep abreast of the latest changes to the frontier models as well as to agentic engineering and to adapt to these changes against the direction the platform needs to take
• Understand how to operationalise the components and functionality being delivered
• To Introduce critical guard rails
• Delivery of business use cases engaging and influencing development, devOps, support and business teams while transforming the core framework

Your skills and experience

• Track record of demonstrating high level engineering capabilities - Think, Engage, Influence, Achieve, Design, Deliver, Control and Operate
• Expert level proficiency in Python, SOA, Event-driven architecture-
• Expert level proficiency and proven track record in building AI frameworks and Agentic workflow using Langgraph, langchain, langfuse, AI-tools
• Proven engagement in building cloud-native systems (GCP preferred), containerisation, github based CI/CD pipeline
• Beneficial to have understanding of Investment bank or Corporate Bank sector
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs

How we'll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

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