Lead Engineer - VP

Job Title: Lead Engineer, VP

Location: Pune, India

Corporate Title: Vice President

Role Description

Overview:

• Corporate Banking is a technology centric business, with an increasing move to real-time processing, an increasing appetite from customers for integrated systems and access to supporting data.  This means that technology is more important than ever for business.
• Deutsche Bank is one of the few banks with the scale and network to compete aggressively in this space, 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 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 supports these businesses through ‘vertical’ CIO aligned teams and by ‘horizontals’ such as Client Connectivity, Surveillance and Regulatory, Infrastructure, Architecture, Production, and Risk & Control.

About Role:

• As the Lead Engineer of the Channel Security team, you will be responsible for the development and end-to-end technical delivery of a mission-critical platform designed to protect the Corporate Bank’s online channels from real-time fraud. You are expected to be a hands-on backend developer with deep architectural expertise to meet demanding performance, reliability, and security requirements, while also providing coaching and technical guidance to the development squad to enable their success.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the team, foster a culture of engineering excellence and ownership.
• Lead by example through direct, hands-on development of the core services and critical components of the Fraud Monitoring Platform.
• Partner closely with the platform architect to define and drive the implementation of the solution design, ensuring the Fraud Monitoring Platform is scalable, resilient, and secure.
• Work closely with Engineering Heads, Project Management, and leaders of related platforms to build, integrate, and deliver the software.
• Drive continuous improvement in the team's performance across the entire SDLC, including code quality, automated testing (QA), CI/CD pipelines, and post-release operational activities.
• Act as the primary technical expert on the platform in strategy meetings, stakeholder discussions, and future product development opportunities.
• Partner with SRE and L3 support teams to proactively identify and implement architectural improvements that enhance system reliability and reduce operational toil.

Your skills and experience

• Proven, hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying complex, scalable applications on a major public cloud platform (GCP strongly preferred).
• Extensive hands-on backend programming experience, with expert-level proficiency in the modern Java ecosystem (Java 17+, Spring Boot).
• Familiarity with AI/ML, Generative AI and agentic AI patterns, with an understanding of how ML models, LLMs or AI agents can be safely integrated and orchestrated within enterprise and real-time decisioning platforms.
• Experience applying AI-assisted engineering techniques across software development, testing, operational support or developer productivity is required.
• Overall experience of 15+ years in software engineering, with a proven track record of leading the design and delivery of complex, business-critical systems.
• Strong knowledge of Microservices Architecture, Kubernetes, Docker, and building cloud-native applications.
• Proficiency with event-driven architecture and messaging systems like Kafka or MQ.
• Expertise with relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and in-memory data stores/caches (Redis).
• Good understanding of Git, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions), and DevOps/SRE principles.
• Experience engineering systems with high-load and high-traffic requirements, including performance testing, tuning, and ensuring zero-downtime releases.
• A strong understanding of modern security principles, including API security (mTLS, OAuth2), data protection, and secure coding practices.
• Familiarity with the principles of AI/ML and an understanding of how to integrate and orchestrate machine learning models or AI agents within a real-time decisioning system is a strong plus.

Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.html

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.