Corporate Bank Senior Engineer AVP

DEUTSCHE BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Singapore is seeking a skilled infra operations leader to oversee Linux/Unix operations. The role requires deep expertise in IT service management, with a strong focus on ensuring service stability and performance optimization. Candidates should have over 10 years of experience in IT, particularly in the banking domain, and possess advanced technical skills. This position offers a hybrid working arrangement and comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Flexible benefits plan

Comprehensive leave benefits

Gender Neutral Parental Leave

25 days of annual paid leave

Qualifications

• Proven experience in IT governance or project management.
• Ability to work independently and under pressure.
• Comfortable working in highly dynamic environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to the infra operations team.
• Ensure 24X7 service availability through proactive monitoring.
• Drive effective change and release management practices.
• Manage escalations and ensure timely resolutions.
• Collaborate with global teams to manage Linux/UNIX servers.
• Identify areas for automation to improve operations.

Skills

IT Service Management

Banking / Financial industry experience

Strong communication skills

Excellent presentation skills

Agile-Scrum delivery experience

Linux (SuSE/RHEL/OEL)

Shell scripting

Control M/scheduling tool experience

Education

10-12+ years in IT

Tools

Jira

Confluence

VERITAS Clustering Products (VCS)

MQ installation

Job description

Details of the Division and Team

About Corporate Bank Technology

Corporate Banking is a technology centric business, with an increasing move to real-time processing, an increasing appetite from customers for integrated systems and access to supporting data. This means that technology is more important than ever for the business.

Deutsche Bank is one of the few banks with the scale and network to compete aggressively in this space, and the breadth of investment in this area is unmatched by our peers. Joining the team is a unique opportunity to help rebuild the core of some of our most mission critical processing systems from the ground-up.

Our Corporate Bank Technology team is a global team of 3000 coders (and growing!) across 30 countries. The primary businesses that Corporate Bank support are Cash Management, Securities Services, Trade Finance and Trust & Agency Services. CB Technology support these businesses through CIO aligned teams and also by "horizontals" such as Client Connectivity, Surveillance and Regulatory, Infrastructure, Architecture, Production, and Risk & Control.

About Our Engineers

Our Engineers work on a diverse range of solutions using cutting-edge technology every day, including our award-winning platforms like Autobahn, Fabric, Glue, and more.

Our Technology strategy is designed to build new revenue streams and develop innovative ideas which produce a new competitive advantage for the Bank, whilst also fixing our foundations and focusing on the importance of stability and risk management. Corporate Bank Technology understands the client’s needs and has a robust strategy and innovative approach to deliver.

About the Team

Core Banking: Core Banking and Client Statements has an end-to-end responsibility for application development and management of the respective application portfolio. The portfolio covers Core Products that GTB offers to its international clients like DDA/Cash Accounts, Core Banking, Liquidity, Payments Processing and Clearing and F/X payments globally. It is also the global cash settlement platform for all other business lines.

What we will offer you:

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce is 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 center.

You can expect:

• Flexible benefits plan including virtual doctor consultation services
• Comprehensive leave benefits
• Gender Neutral Parental Leave
• Hybrid working arrangement
• 25 days of annual paid leave, plus public holiday
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression

Your key responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and oversight to the outsourced/inhouse infra operations team.
• Drive stability in Linux/Unix operations, implementing best in class ITIL practices.
• Ensure 24X7 availability of service through proactive monitoring and response to critical issues in a timely manner
• Ownership of processes and governance around software license management, assets management, middleware upgrades and technology refresh activities.
• Drive effective change and release management practices to ensure uninterrupted service operations and availability
• Review and improve operational processes including BCM/DR solutions.
• Able to drive key projects and initiatives to deliver the change book of work.
• Oversight of day to day and routine operations activities for compliance with ops manuals, golden rules, best practices. Drive rigor on handoffs, health checks and ‘Manager on Duty Activities.
• Manage escalations and ensure they are resolved in a timely manner.
• Work with Application teams to provide solutions to LINUX/UNIX OS needs, Filesystem and performance related issues.
• Collaborate with global virtual Linux/unix teams and be able to manage Linux/UNIX servers across the multiple location in APAC.
• Drive incident calls effectively to quick resolution, followed up with robust problem management activities to minimize risks in the environment.
• Identify areas for automation and self-help, and work closely with stakeholders and colleagues in improving the maturity of operations.
• Drive optimization of infra operations processes that can improve performance, identify trends, threats in systems and skills
• Proactive review that SLAs are fit for purpose and introduce new measures to improve the service and address key pain points or gaps.

Your skills and experience:

• IT Service Management, IT Governance or IT Project Management background.
• Banking / Financial industry Experience.
• Business Risk audits experience is needed
• Strong team player who also can work under pressure, independently and proactively while balancing competing priorities to achieve results on complex new development and integrations.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, highly organized and disciplined.
• Experienced in working with multiple stakeholders. Ability to create and naturally maintain good business relationships with all stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in VUCA (Volatility Uncertainty Complexity Ambiguity) and highly dynamic environments.
• As infrastructure specialist must have following technical skills

• Linux (SuSE/RHEL/OEL)
• AIX (optional)
• Virtualization technology – Solaris Zones, Linux on VMware virtual machines
• VERITAS Clustering Products (VCS)
• MQ installation, MQ queues and channel setup experience
• DR activities
• Shell scripting
• Control M/scheduling tool experience

• Reasonable understanding and relevant experience in Agile-Scrum delivery and main tools (Jira & Confluence);
• 10-12+ years of work experience in IT.
• Experience in banking domain specially in payment business.

About us and our teams:

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Deustche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network.

Deutsche Bank & Diversity

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.