Deutsche Bank Technology in Berlin

DB Technology is a global team of tech specialists, spread across multiple trading hubs and tech centres. We have a strong focus on promoting technical excellence – our engineers work at the forefront of financial services innovation using cutting-edge technologies.

Our Berlin location is our most recent addition to our global network of tech centres and growing strongly. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and to creating excellent opportunities for talented engineers and technologists. Our tech teams and business units use agile ways of working to create #GlobalHausbank solutions from our home market.

Business Context

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.

About Our Engineers

Our engineers work on a diverse range of solutions using cutting-edge technology every day. Our Technology strategy is designed to build new revenue streams and develop innovative ideas which produce a new competitive advantage for the Bank, whilst also fixing our foundations and focusing on the importance of stability and risk management. Corporate Bank Technology understands the client’s needs and has a robust strategy and innovative approach to deliver.

New Growth Initiatives

Financial services are becoming more and more embedded in the life and business process contexts of people and companies (Small, Medium and Large Corporates). This evolution of the market means that Banks and other financial service providers need to deliver their products in an easily consumable digital way to encourage easier Customer adoption and integration. This ease of consumption is the key to becoming their ‘platform of choice’ for financial services. New Growth initiatives is a group specifically targeted at delivering digital solutions around our growth topics in a low-friction and easily consumable manner that benefits businesses for whom banking is not their core business but a service that they require. These offerings will deliver digital interfaces and capabilities to our core banking services for businesses that would prefer a low-touch low-friction low-complexity approach.

Your Assignment

• Analysis of existing business processes and underlying system landscape with focus on the specific requirements for German small & medium enterprise Clients (SMEs, e.g. “Mittelstand”)

• Definition and recommendation of application architectures to support our business processes based on architecture blueprints, reference architectures and in line with the Target Architecture for Corporate Bank Germany

• Development, coordination and documentation of tactical and strategic solution options for architectural challenges, application design and roadmaps. The integration with platforms of Private Banking, Finance, Risk and Treasury platforms is an important success factor due to the special requirements of small business customers.

• Identification of weaknesses in current business processes and IT architecture, work out optimization potential as a basis for the target architecture.

• Coordination of necessary activities across tribes and squads. Close cooperation with the corresponding global domain architects of the business domains such as Cash Management, Trade Finance & Lending, Channels, Securities Services and Enterprise Services.

Your skills and experience

• Several years of experience in the IT architecture of banks, including the analysis of business processes to develop a technical architecture based on a functional architecture and its requirements. Used to work in an agile setup, experience with Agile Methodologies.

• Good general banking knowledge, in-depth knowledge and experience in at least two specific banking domains desirable.

• In-depth knowledge of different technology platforms including cloud environments (ideally Google Cloud) and midrange but also the mainframe platform.

• Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience in Java, web services (RESTful services), databases (Relational DBs and No-SQL), and data exchange (JMS, JSON, XML).

• Very good language skills in English, German would be a big plus.

This job is available in full and parttime

What we offer

We provide you with a comprehensive portfolio of benefits and offerings to support both, your private and professional needs.

Emotionally and mentally balanced
A positive mind helps us master the challenges of everyday life – both professionally and privately. We offer consultation in difficult life situations as well as mental health awareness trainings.

Physically thriving
We support you in staying physically fit through an offering to maintain personal health and a professional environment. You can benefit from health check-ups; vaccination drives as well as advice on healthy living and nutrition.

Socially connected
Networking opens up new perspectives, helps us thrive professionally and personally as well as strengthens our self-confidence and well-being. You can benefit from PME family service, FitnessCenter Job, flexible working (e.g parttime, hybrid working, job tandem) as well as an extensive culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Financially secure
We provide you with financial security not only during your active career but also for the future. You can benefit from offerings such as pension plans, banking services, company bicycle or “Deutschlandticket”.

Since our offerings slightly vary across locations, please contact your recruiter with specific questions.

In case of any recruitment related questions, please get in touch with Binh Bui.

Contact: Binh Bui, Phone: +49 (30) 34073087

Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.

We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

Visit Inside Deutsche Bank to discover more about the culture of Deutsche Bank including Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Leadership, Learning, Future of Work and more besides.