Lead Engineer (f/m/x) - Cash Data Technology

Job Description:

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 focus on promoting technical excellence, with our engineers working at the forefront of financial services innovation using cutting-edge technologies.

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

[Origination & Advisory Technology]

In the Cash Data domain, we work daily to help our corporate clients operate smoothly. Our clients include well-known multinational corporates whose products you may use. We provide products such as sight deposits, overdrafts, intraday credit facilities, term deposits, and off-balance sheet investments, aiding clients in payments and cash management.

As a Lead Data Engineer, you will lead a team responsible for building Big Data platform capabilities, including ingestion pipelines, data processing pipelines, and data preparation. You will work on designing a hybrid data platform across Public Cloud and On-premises resources. We seek engineers with strong design and coding skills, teamwork orientation, motivation, and self-drive, with a passion for software engineering and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

If you feel you don't meet 100% of the requirements but are interested, we encourage you to send your CV anyway!

Your key responsibilities

• Create technical design and architecture for a hybrid data platform including GKE, Kafka, distributed Clickhouse database cluster, Airflow/Composer orchestration
• Ensure technology compliance with Bank Standards
• Design for reliability and resiliency: develop SRE stack, drive implementation, ensure stability of key components
• Lead a team of Java Developers & DevOps from implementation to production
• Maintain code quality, refactoring, and engineering best practices

Your skills and experiences

• Experience designing resilient distributed clusters and SRE tools
• Expertise in Java
• Knowledge of Cloud technologies, preferably GCP, and experience with Distributed Columnar Databases like Clickhouse
• Proficiency in developing tooling supporting Enterprise Platforms, e.g., automation of backup, smoke-testing, release, rollback, permissions management
• Strong communication skills in English

Additional Skills

• Extensive experience in Core Java / Kotlin
• Knowledge of frameworks: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Microservices, REST APIs, Kafka, MQ
• Experience with AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure is a plus
• Experience with OLAP databases such as ClickHouse or BigQuery is advantageous
• Excellent communication skills in English

What we offer

We provide a comprehensive benefits portfolio to support your personal and professional needs:

• Emotional and mental well-being: mental health support and awareness trainings
• Physical health: health check-ups, vaccinations, advice on healthy living
• Social connection: networking, diversity and inclusion initiatives, flexible working options
• Financial security: pension plans, banking services, company bicycle, Deutschlandticket

This role is available in full and part-time options. For specific questions related to offerings, please contact your recruiter.

For recruitment inquiries, contact Sofya Veselkova at +49 3066769987.

We promote a culture of responsibility, initiative, collaboration, and celebrate our successes together. We welcome applications from all backgrounds to foster a positive, fair, and inclusive work environment.