Foreign Exchange Production Engineering Lead

Deutsche Bank AG; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best in class leave policy

Gender neutral parental leaves

Childcare reimbursement

Certifications sponsorship

Employee Assistance Program

Health insurance for family

Term life insurance

Health screening for 35+

Job summary

Deutsche Bank AG in Pune, India seeks a Foreign Exchange Production Engineering Lead (Vice President) to safeguard platform availability and lead a 10+ member team implementing SRE practices. You will drive reliability improvements, automation, and cross-team collaboration for the FX trading environment.

You will collaborate with project managers, analysts, and developers to deploy new features, manage monitoring, and participate in disaster recovery exercises, while guiding post-incident

Qualifications

• Strong technical skills in Linux/Unix systems, SQL and scripting.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools and cloud/container platforms.
• Leadership experience in production support, SRE, or DevOps in finance.

Responsibilities

• Maintain availability of the trading platform.
• Lead a team of 10+ to drive SRE, improve reliability and reduce TOIL.
• Respond to user queries promptly; act as SME for platform areas.
• Investigate and resolve application/infrastructure issues with updates.
• Ensure postmortems include follow-ups to prevent repeats.
• Identify automation opportunities to reduce manual tasks.
• Perform start-of-week/day checks and monitor high-profile processes.
• Gate changes to production; conduct post-change validation; may include out-of-hours.
• Collaborate with PMs, BAs, and Developers to add new functionality.
• Maintain monitoring environments and focus on observability.
• Participate in DR/BCP exercises and global process improvement.

Skills

Linux/Unix

SQL

Scripting

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Geneos

OpenTelemetry

Corvil

Job description

Job Description: Job Title: Foreign Exchange Production Engineering Lead Corporate Title: Vice President Location: Pune, India Role Description WWe are seeking an experienced and highly capable Production Engineering Lead to support the Foreign Exchange businesses.

What we’ll offer you

• 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

• Maintaining overall availability of the trading platform
• Leading a team of 10+ individuals to drive SRE principles, improved reliability of our platforms and TOIL reduction
• Responding to user queries and requests in a timely manner; being a Subject Matter Expert
• Identifying, investigating, and resolving application/infrastructure issues impacting the business; whilst ensuring communication updates provided at regular intervals
• Ensuring internal postmortems include strategic follow-ups, in a bid to reduce repeat occurrences of issues & incidents
• Identifying and implementing potential automation opportunities such as self-healing scripts to reduce manual tasks, increase efficiency, and improve resiliency
• Conducting Start of Week/Day checks, observing and acting on monitoring alerts, and keeping oversight of high-profile technology processes, particularly those relating to exchange obligations
• Acting as the gatekeeper to production; critically reviewing all changes prior to deployments and conducting post-change validation checks (may include some Out of Hours activities)
• Working closely with Project Managers, Functional Business Analysts, and Developers to introduce new functionality and enhancements to the trading platform
• Setting up new & maintaining existing Monitoring environments; strong focus on observability for early issue detection of latency, capacity, etc
• Participating in Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plan exercises (may include some Out of Hours activities)
• Active participation in local, regional, and global process improvement initiatives
• Engagement in wider Technology forums, ie Engineering Days, Hackathons, Data Science events, etc

Your skills and experience

• Prior leadership experience essential; managing teams of 5+ 10+ experience in a production support, SRE, or DevOps role within a trading or financial services environment
• Strong technical skills in Linux/Unix systems, SQL, and scripting
• Strong experience with a programming language such as Python, Java, etc
• Strong experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Geneos, OpenTelemetry, Corvil)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, containerization (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), and CI/CD pipelines
• Have a strong understanding of the trade lifecycle and fundamental trading systems.
• Knowledge of FX related products and market structure and/or algorithmic trading advantageous.
• Exceptional verbal and written skills, to communicate effectively with business users, technology peers, and senior management alike
• Direct trade floor experience is advantageous
• Self-motivated, proactive in nature, and ability to work independently; as well as collaboratively in a global organisation
• 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. 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. 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. For over 150 years, our dedication to being the Global Hausbank for our clients has been driven by our people – in around 60 countries and across more than 150 nationalities. Their deep understanding, insights, expertise, and passion help our clients navigate an increasingly complex world – be it in our Corporate Bank, our Private Bank, our Investment Bank or our Asset Management (DWS) division. Together we can make a great impact for our clients at home and abroad, securing their lasting success and financial security. More information at: Deutsche Bank Careers (db.com)