Head of Credit Production Engineering

Deutsche Bank AG; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 308,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Parental leave

Family building benefits

Educational resources

Matching gifts

Wellness benefits

Job summary

Deutsche Bank AG in New York seeks a senior leader to head Credit Production Engineering. You will guide a global SRE-aligned team, drive production stability, and align engineering with business and regulatory goals. Hybrid work arrangement and comprehensive benefits are offered.

The role emphasizes executive stakeholder engagement, architecture review, and proactive, automation-first engineering across a distributed team.

Qualifications

• Incident management, post-mortem and problem-management culture in regulated finance.
• Strong Linux/Unix, SQL, and programming in C++, Java, Python.
• Experience with observability platforms and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Drive global production stability across Credit, aligning priorities with objectives and resilience goals.
• Embed modern SRE principles and lead transformation to proactive, data-driven engineering.
• Review architectures, influence tooling strategy, and improve incident response and risk reduction.

Skills

Incident management

C/C++/Java/Python

Observability

Kubernetes

Docker

AI tools

SRE leadership

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Geneos

OpenTelemetry

Ansible

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Head of Credit Production Engineering Corporate Title Director

Location: New York, NY

This senior leadership role will report to the Head of Fixed Income and Currencies (FIC) Production & Reliability Engineering. You will lead the Global Credit Production Engineering across FIC Technology, a globally distributed team, supporting the delivery of the strategic vision, while maintaining day-to-day accountability for day-to-day production stability. Seniority and influence will be critical in engaging executive stakeholders, setting standards, and guiding a global team efficiently.

What We Offer You

A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration.

A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days.

Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement.

• Health and wellbeing benefits
• Retirement savings plans
• Parental leave
• Family building benefits
• Educational resources
• Matching gift and volunteer programs
• Physical, emotional, and financial wellness benefits that allow our colleagues to stay financially secure and strike balance between work and home

What You’ll Do

• Drive global production stability across the Credit business, aligning engineering priorities with business objectives, regulatory expectations, and platform resilience goals.
• Embed modern Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and lead the transformation from reactive support to a proactive, data‑driven, automation‑first engineering discipline.
• Enhance platform robustness by challenging and reviewing architectures, contributing to tooling strategy, and role‑modelling excellence in incident response, post‑incident analysis, and risk reduction.

How You’ll Lead

• Act as a senior partner to the Head of Credit Trading, Credit desk leads, technology executives, and adjacent business stakeholders, ensuring transparency, aligned priorities, and shared accountability for platform performance and health.
• Develop, mentor, and scale a high‑performing global SRE‑aligned team, fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, curiosity, and continuous improvement.

Skills You’ll Need

• Expertise in incident management, post‑mortem and problem‑management culture, change governance, and operating within regulated financial environments.
• Advanced technical proficiency in Linux/Unix systems, Structured Query Language, and programming in C++, Java, Python, or equivalent scripting languages; strong understanding of distributed systems, low‑latency architectures, APIs and event driven architecture.
• Hands‑on experience with observability and telemetry platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Geneos, OpenTelemetry) and infrastructure automation (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines).
• Familiarity with hybrid cloud, containerization, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern deployment methodologies.
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimize workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

Skills That Will Help You Excel

• Leadership experience managing SRE or Production Engineering functions in complex, high‑availability, real‑time environments, ideally within capital markets.
• Experience working in a Trading environment and knowledge of pricing, trade capture, market‑data flows, and fixed income products; exposure to Foreign Exchange or algorithmic and electronic trading in large scale environments is advantageous.

Expectations

It is the Bank’s expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the New York office in accordance with the Bank’s hybrid working model.

Deutsche Bank provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees with a substantiated need based on disability and/or religion.

Salary

The salary range for this position in New York City is $170,000 to $308,000. Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications. Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of remuneration.

Deutsche Bank Benefits

At Deutsche Bank, we recognize that our benefit programs have a profound impact on our colleagues. That’s why we are focused on providing benefits and perks that enable our colleagues to live authentically and be their whole selves, at every stage of life. We provide access to physical, emotional, and financial wellness benefits that allow our colleagues to stay financially secure and strike balance between work and home.

Equal Opportunity

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Culture

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.

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.