Java Development Lead, AVP

Position Overview

Job Title: Java Development Lead

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

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.

Surveillance & Regulatory: Surveillance and Regulatory Technology is responsible for delivering solutions that protect the bank's financial and reputational interests from potentially criminal or inappropriate behaviour by our clients, employees, vendors. It enables the bank to manage its compliance to regulations and the risk appetite to stay in business in the various legislation. In addition, the function, is responsible for driving improvement across the IT delivery cycle through adoption of best practices, automation tooling and metrics, as well as developing a target state DevOps capability.

Backend Java Developer

DB is looking for a seasoned engineer able to make us better at designing and building. We found out that the best way to build a long-lasting product is to have a group of very competent engineers that exchange ideas, work together and complement each other.You need to be able to do system design as well as low level coding.

The ideal colleague understands the pitfalls of distributed systems and has very good knowledge of technologies as Kafka, JMS (MQ specifically), Spring framework, REST APIs, Relational Databases.

You need to be able to come with creative solutions and brings arguments for those solutions but also listen to feedback and incorporate it within your solution when it proves to bring benefits. You should be comfortable to walkthrough your ideas to variety of technical or business stakeholders, and also guide other colleagues in implementing the solution. We do believe in walking the talk, so you need to have solid engineering mindset backed by zeal to continuously learn and adapt to the emerging technical stack.

Deutsche Bank's Corporate Bank division is a leading provider of cash management, trade finance and securities finance. We complete green-field projects that deliver the best Corporate Bank - Securities Services products in the world. Our team is diverse, international, and driven by shared focus on clean code and valued delivery. At every level, agile minds are rewarded with competitive pay, support, and opportunities to excel.

You will work as part of a cross-functional agile delivery team. You will bring an innovative approach to software development, focusing on using the latest technologies and practices, as part of a relentless focus on business value. You will be someone who sees engineering as team activity, with a predisposition to open code, open discussion and creating a supportive, collaborative environment. You will be ready to contribute to all stages of software delivery, from initial analysis right through to production support.

What we'll offer you

Please be aware there are regional differences to DB benefits, and you will need to check the correct package per advert.

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Flexible working arrangements
• 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

• Design and build java applications as per design principles and standards
• Guide other colleagues through the implementation process
• Build automation tests
• Deploy applications through the environments all the way into Production
• Be on call for Production Incidents
• Shape the future of our technology stack and applying it innovatively to solve complex problems.
• Promoting a DevOps/SRE culture and modern toolchains to support continuous delivery.

Your skills and experience

• Bachelor of Science/Engineering degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Computer-Science or Software Engineering (or equivalent
• Total 9+ years of experience in IT industry with exposure to software development
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills
• Good team player
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (analyses the technical defect, identify the root-cause, and provide workaround/permanent solution)

Must Have Skills

• Good experience with Java 11+
• Ability to design and build distributed systems / microservices in a resilient, reliable way with low latency
• Ability to test your application through and out
• Develop microservices using REST API
• Strong experience in developing containerized applications using Docker
• Knowledge of working with OpenShift/Kubernetes or other containerization products
• Willingness to share your experience and explain your technical decisions to less experience engineers or non-technical colleagues
• Have a DevOps/SRE approach when designing/building the applications
• Willingness to learn what you don't know from your colleagues or on your own
• Working knowledge with relational databases
• Spring boot, spring core, spring data JPA
• Experience of using cloud platforms ( preferably GCP)

Nice to Have Skills

• Messaging technologies - Kafka, MQ
• BDD
• OpenAPI
• Knowledge of NoSQL DB's

How we'll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
• 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

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We strive for a 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.