DWS Senior Team Manager Technology / Principal Engineer (m,f,d)

About DWS:

At DWS, we’re capturing the opportunities of tomorrow. You can be part of a leading, client-committed, global Asset Manager, making an impact on individuals, communities, and the world.

Join us on our journey, and you can shape our transformation by working side by side with industry thought-leaders and gaining new and diverse perspectives. You can share ideas and be yourself, whilst driving innovative and sustainable solutions that influence markets and behaviours for the better.

Every day brings the opportunity to discover a new now, and here at DWS, you’ll be supported as you overcome challenges and reach your ambitions. This is your chance to lead an extraordinary career and invest in your future.

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About the role:

As a Senior Team Manager Technology / Principal Engineer you will play a key role in guiding the organization towards a stronger focus on outcomes and customer needs. With experience across a range of technology domains, your adaptability and ability to become proficient in new skills in a rapidly changing environment are as important as your technical skills. 

What You’ll Do  

• Providing technical and functional leadership, mentorship, and direction to team members, while discovering new techniques and helping others to adopt them 

• Collaborate with different engineering teams to deliver value through the delivery of high-quality software within an agile development lifecycle 

• Define and evolve the architecture of the components you are working on and contribute to architectural decisions at a team and company-wide level 

• Bring knowledge of working in a regulated industry to understand problems we face, leverage design patterns and automation to support a continuous integration/continuous deployment or development (CI/CD) 

• Contribute to the wider company goals, ensuring consistent standards and approaches to software development while designing to a common shared framework 

• Work with the right and robust engineering practices and help establish them company wide. 

How You’ll Lead 

• Provide engineering thought leadership across teams, mentor and coach engineers and encourage continuous improvement in delivery practices 

• Lead and collaborate across teams, while building high performing teams and promoting an engineering culture, as well as a learning organization and recognizing the importance of “developer experience” 

• Lead by example 

Skills You’ll Need  

• Extensive experience in the IT industry with hands-on development in Java Programming (Spring Boot), NodeJS, Go and Cloud Native technologies. 

• Leading distributed engineering teams in an agile environment 

• Hands-on experience in building distributed computing solutions (Service Orientated Architecture / Microservices) and developing on Kubernetes (OpenShift Container Platform) and Google Cloud Platform 

• Experience with Test D