Deutsche Bank
Corporate Banking
LeadEngineer-CorporateBankTechnology
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“Lead Engineer - Corporate Bank Technology at Deutsche Bank. Skills: engineering leadership, distributed systems architecture, Java, CI/CD, risk and control management, stakeholder management. Own engineering leadership, culture, and execution for a large India-based organization (100+ engineers across two locations) delivering mission-critical distributed systems. Raise the engineering bar, establishing clear technical direction, and building local leadership”
What You'll Achieve.
delivering mission-critical distributed systems; raising the engineering bar; establishing clear technical direction; building local leadership; ensuring engineering quality, reliability, or long-term sustainability; embedding reliability, observability, and supportability into engineering practices; delivering client facing solutions that act as channels allowing Payment Initiation for our corporate and institutional clients across the world; driving the development of global payment initiation platform; provides Deutsche Bank's institutional clients ability to initiate payments in real time and access to their account balances & statements in near real time
Industry & Context.
first-principles reasoning
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Proven experience leading large engineering organizations (100+ engineers) with a mix of direct management and functional influence, Demonstrated ability to build local leadership, improve engineering culture, and raise standards in complex enterprise environments, Track record of assertive, fact-based leadership and comfort making and defending difficult decisions, Deep background in designing and operating distributed systems, with fundamentals in scalability, reliability, and performance, hands-on experience with Java-based backend systems, cloud platforms, and modern CI/CD pipelines, Ability to introduce, champion, and personally model modern engineering practices (e. g. , TDD, test automation, performance testing, AI-enabled development), Sufficient hands-on depth to prototype, spike, pair program, and meaningfully challenge design and implementation choices, understanding of operating within regulated, large-scale enterprise environments, Demonstrated ownership of risk, control, and operational weak control mindset is not acceptable, Experience balancing delivery pressure with long-term platform health and sustainability, Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience working across geographies and senior leadership levels, Ability to maintain healthy tension with product and business partners, ensuring engineering quality and technical strategy are not compromised
Nice to Have
Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
What You'll Do.
Own engineering leadership
and execution for a large India-based organization (100+ engineers across two locations) delivering mission-critical distributed systems
Raise the engineering bar
establishing clear technical direction
and building local leadership
Partner globally with product and technology stakeholders
Act as a fact-based challenger where engineering quality
or long-term sustainability are at risk
Maintain technical credibility through hands-on engagement
modern engineering practices
and direct mentorship of senior engineers
Own local engineering leadership and oversight for 100+ engineers across two India locations
including direct management of senior leaders and functional influence across the wider organization
Set and enforce clear engineering standards and technical direction
addressing gaps in ownership
Introduce and scale modern practices such as TDD
AI-assisted development
and performance testing
Act as a credible technical authority
challenging architectural and delivery decisions with data
and first-principles reasoning
Build a culture of accountability
and continuous actively dismantle “yes culture” and low-ownership behaviours
Maintain hands-on technical credibility through prototyping
and direct mentoring of senior engineers
Partner closely with global stakeholders while retaining independence to say “no” when engineering quality
or risk posture is compromised
and operational hygiene across platforms
embedding reliability
and supportability into engineering practices
Driving the development of global payment initiation platform that has React based micro frontends backed by Java powered micro-services deployed in a containerized environment
Collaborate with other Senior Engineers
Lead Engineers and Analysts on the platform using agile practices to incrementally add functionality to the platform and with a sharp focus on automation
Partner with business and technology managers to define modules and enhancements to the application stack that provides Deutsche Bank's institutional clients ability to initiate payments in real time and access to their account balances & statements in near real time
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with other Senior Engineers, Lead Engineers and Analysts on the platform using agile practices; Partner with business and technology managers; Partner closely with global stakeholders; working collaboratively
Communication Scope
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; experience working across geographies and senior leadership levels
Process & Methodology
agile practices
Full Job Description
## _**Job Description:**_ **Job Title: Lead Engineer - Corporate Bank Technology** **Corporate Title: Director** **Location: Pune, India** **Role Description** * Corporate Banking is a technology centric business and is focused on offering Payment solutions to satisfy an ever-increasing appetite from customers for integrated systems with access to supporting data for real time processing. Deutsche Bank is one of the few banks with the scale and network to compete aggressively in this business, 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 Engineers (and growing!) across 30 countries. The primary businesses that we support within Corporate Bank are Cash Management, Securities Services, Trade Finance and Trust & Agency Services. CB Technology support these businesses through ‘vertical’ CIO aligned teams and by ‘horizontals’ such as Client Connectivity, Surveillance and Regulatory, Infrastructure, Architecture, Production, and Risk & Control. **About the Team** **Payment Channels Technology** * We are responsible for delivering client facing solutions that act as channels allowing Payment Initiation for our corporate and institutional clients across the world. * Corporate Bank Technology has embarked on a multi-year technology refresh program that includes revitalization of "Channel" applications for payment initiation. * As a Lead Engineer, you will be working on driving the development of global payment initiation platform that has React based micro frontends backed by Java powered micro-services deployed in a containerized environment. * The platform uses event streaming over Kafka and varied datastores such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, HBase, MongoDB amongst other open-source software. * You'll collaborate with other Senior Engineers, Lead Enginee
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