European Rates Production & Reliability Engineering lead, D

Job Description:

Job Title European Rates Production and Reliability Engineering Lead

Location London

Corporate Title Director

This senior role reports to the Head of Global Rates Production. The role will lead European Rates Production Engineering across Fixed Income and Currencies Technology working with a local and wider global team to deliver strategic priorities while maintaining accountability for production stability. The role requires senior stakeholder engagement clear decision-making and the ability to set standards across a global engineering function.

You will be responsible for the operational health of mission-critical Rates trading systems strengthening Site Reliability Engineering practices across the organisation and partnering with senior business and technology managers to improve architecture automation resilience and incident management capabilities.

What well offer you.

A healthy engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and more importantly enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. Thats why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them

• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension

• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays with the option to purchase additional days

• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family

• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits

• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme 2 days volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Lead production stability across the Rates business in Europe aligning engineering priorities with business objectives regulatory expectations and platform resilience goals

• Embed modern Site Reliability Engineering principles and support the move from reactive support to a proactive data-determined and automation-led engineering model

• Strengthen platform robustness by reviewing architecture contributing to tooling strategy and setting clear standards for incident response post-incident evaluation and risk reduction

• Act as a senior partner to the Head of Rates Trading Rates desk heads technology executives and adjacent business stakeholders supporting transparency aligned priorities and shared accountability for platform performance and health

• Develop mentor and scale a global team aligned to Site Reliability Engineering principles promoting ownership technical quality curiosity and continuous improvement

Your skills and experience

• Leadership experience managing Site Reliability Engineering or Production Engineering functions in complex high-availability real-time environments ideally within capital markets

• Experience working in a trading environment with knowledge of pricing trade capture market data flows and fixed income products; exposure to Foreign Exchange algorithmic trading or electronic trading is advantageous

• Strong experience in incident management post-mortem practices problem management and change governance ideally within regulated financial environments

• Advanced technical capability across Linux or Unix systems Structured Query Language and programming in languages such as C Java or Python with a strong understanding of distributed systems and low-latency architecture

• Experience with observability and telemetry platforms such as Prometheus Grafana Splunk Geneos or Open Telemetry alongside infrastructure automation tooling including Ansible and Terraform and Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery pipelines

• Familiarity with hybrid cloud environments containerisation technologies including Kubernetes and Docker and modern deployment methodologies

How well support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career

• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities

• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities employer we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers assistive hearing devices adapted keyboards)

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be namedin The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has beenawarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in theirTop 100 Employers.

If you have a disability health condition or require any adjustments during the application process we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge onto discuss.

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.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1