Principal Engineer - Director

Job Description:

Job Title Principal Engineer

Corporate Title Director

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

Technology underpins Deutsche Bank’s entire business and is changing and shaping the way we engage, interact, and transact with all our stakeholders, both internally and externally. Our Technology, Data, and Innovation strategy is focused on strengthening engineering expertise, introducing an agile delivery model, as well as modernizing the Bank's IT infrastructure with long-term investments and taking advantage of cloud computing, while we continue to invest and build a team of visionary tech talent who will ensure we thrive in this period of unprecedented change for the industry. It means hiring the right people and giving them the training, freedom, and opportunity, they need to do pioneering work.

As a Principal Engineer you will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of entire engineering solutions to accomplish business goals. 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 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

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

• Work with our clients 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 department and bank-wide level

• Bring deep industry knowledge into the Feature Team to understand problems, leverage design patterns, automation to support a continuous integration/continuous deployment or development (CI/CD) pipeline to production and support emergent design within the agreed domain target architecture

• Contribute to the wider domain goals to ensure flow, consistent standards and approach to software development while designing to a common shared framework

• Work with the right and robust engineering practices

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”

• Leading by example

Skills You’ll Need

• Extensive experience in the IT industry with hands-on development in Java Programming

• Leading distributed engineering teams in an agile environment

• Hands-on experience in building large scale distributed computing solutions, within Spring Frameworks and Spring Boot, with application programming interface, Service Orientated Architecture or Microservices, and with developing on Open