Senior Engineer - Vice President

Job Description:

Job Title Senior Engineer

Corporate Title Vice President

Location Cary, NC

Who we are

In short – an essential part of Deutsche Bank’s technology solution, developing applications for key business areas.

Our Technologists drive Cloud, Cyber and business technology strategy while transforming it within a robust, hands-on engineering culture. Learning is a key element of our people strategy, and we have a variety of options for you to develop professionally. Our approach to the future of work champions flexibility and is rooted in the understanding that there have been dramatic shifts in the ways we work.

Having first established a presence in the Americas in the 19th century, Deutsche Bank opened its US technology center in Cary, North Carolina in 2009. Learn more about us here.

Overview

The High Value Payments Team is looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to work on a complex, mission-critical payments system. The ideal professional will have extensive experience with designing, developing, deploying, monitoring, and supporting distributed systems written in Java. The team’s payments platform is currently a combination of Spring Boot applications and classic JEE applications, hosted on-premises via OpenShift and other legacy managed services. We plan to upgrade and modernize this platform and need people eager to dive in and get their hands dirty. This is a good opportunity for somebody who wants meaningful hands-on experience transforming a critical high-volume application.

What We Offer You

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

• A hybrid working model with up to 60% work from home, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days, a commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility

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

• Access to a strong network of Communities of Practice connecting you to colleagues with shared interests and values

• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits, Educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs

What You’ll Do

• Deliver state of the art solutions and be a hands-on technologist. Lead by example through the quality of your technical deliverable

• Maintain hygiene, risk, control, and stability at the core of every deliver

• Manage the software development life cycle (SDLC) of software components all the way to production, including helping support the application to resolve production issues with appropriate triaging

• Collaborate, maintain clear and open communication with the team, and share experience with entire Engineering organization

How You’ll Lead

• Mentor junior engineers and provide insight

• Excellent communication, collaboration, mentorship, and problem-solving skills; creatively solve complex problems and take ownership of the solution until its completion

Skills You’ll Need

• Extensive hands-on development experience with Java/JEE-based Enterprise Applications technologies (e.g. EJB, Java Message Service (JMS), Kafka, Spring Boot)

• Experience in design/development of scalable, available, resilient, and observable large scale distributed banking applications

• Experience with open-source technologies, framework, platforms, and tools, most notably Spring Boot

• Experience with web services (e.g. SOAP, REST) and database technologies (e.g. Structured Query Language (SQL), Oracle, MongoDB

• Experience thoroughly testing software applications via unit, integration, end-to-end, load testing, and ability to discuss when and where to use each of these

Skills That Will Help You Excel

• Experience migrating applications from on-prem to cloud (we use GCP, but any cloud deployment experience is desirable)

• Domain experience with payments, banking, finance, or in another highly regulated environment is a plus

• Excellent communication, collaboration, mentorship, and problem-solving skills; creatively solve complex problems and take ownership of the solution until its completion

• Working knowledge Jenkins, Sona