US Technology Lead- Stock Loan

Job ID: 3147386

Full/Part-Time: Full-time

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Listed: 2017-04-12

Location: New York, United States of America

Technology

Our technology teams are responsible for the Bank’s entire information technology (“IT”) infrastructure, and the development, implementation, and protection of the software required to support all of the Bank’s businesses. We move over EUR 1.6 trillion across the Bank’s platforms, support thousands of trading desks, and enable millions of banking transactions, share trades and emails every day.

With award-winning mobile banking apps and trading systems, our technology platforms help Deutsche Bank deliver high quality products to clients. Naturally, we make sure that the phones work, emails are delivered and PCs run – but we also develop collaboration platforms and workspaces that help our people share their knowledge, expertise and passion for our business.

Developments in technology are changing the way we communicate, work and think. Join us here, and you’ll constantly be looking ahead. We’ll look to you to capitalize on new technological trends that can reshape our business and deliver value for our clients, whilst still meeting the demands of customers, regulators and the markets.

Position Overview
Functional Title: US Technology lead – Stock Loan

Corporate Title: Vice President

Position Description:

This new role focuses on taking technical leadership for our Stock Loan platforms in the US. Working closely with our user base we have an aggressive delivery roadmap that’s underway. To support this we need a strong Technology leader in the US to work with the global technology leaders

The role will seek to drive technology innovation whilst balancing the work that will need to be performed on the legacy platforms to support the Business and manage the migration. Will be expected to work with global development teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Able to respond to requirements supplied by project analysts in a constructively critical manner, from the point of view of the development team
• Provide architecture and design recommendations and implement these in terms of usability, scalability, design and performance.
• Provide solutions for technical and functional issues including performance related items and reducing complexity, increasing maintainability and providing flexibility and reuse for more feeds and products being brought on.
• Be a global technology leader pushing the use of appropriate leading edge technologies and techniques
• Enhancing, building, tuning and debugging applications and other related duties and responsibilities
• Investigate and correct software defects
• Prepare comprehensive design and technical specifications documentation, and ensure timely completion of assigned work.

People Management

• Supports the development of an environment where people management and development is the number one priority. Coaches direct reports and others in the organization, as appropriate
• Actively supports the business strategy, plans and values, contributing to the achievement of a high performance culture
• Takes ownership for own career management, seeking opportunities for continuous development of personal capability and improved performance contribution
• Acts as a role model for new employees, providing help and support to facilitate early integration and assimilation of their new environment
• Supports tough people decisions to ensure people performance is aligned with organization imperatives and needs. Addresses individual performance issues, where necessary, to drive for high performance

Experience/ Exposure:

Technology:

• Data: both Big Data (NoSQL, Spark, HDFS, Druid, Kafka, Kudu, Swoop, Flume) and RDBMS (Oracle, Sybase ASE & IQ ). Cache & In memory data grids: Hazelcast, Spring, less so Coherance
• Core: Scala, Java (Weblogic & Tomcat), Python and/or R, C/C++/C#, REST/JSON Services, Node.js and HTML5
• Infra & O/S transformation from Physicals running Unix and Solaris to Cloud infra and Linux. Security, Authentication, Entitlements
• Full SDLC Automation: Jira, BitBucket(Stash), TeamCity, Artifactory and Sonar

Domain Knowledge:

• Ideally GPF domain knowledge, but not a must – particularly FRM (Financial Resource Management) and SL (Sec Lending).
• Other Equities (cash, derivs) and/or FICC a plus
• Good to have experience outside Investment Banks (Goldman, Morgan) and other industries (Technology would be ideal) and ideally an Open Source contributor / lead

Relevant Experience:

• 10+ years or more of software development experience
• Financial Services experience and Capital Markets would be of benefit but is not essential. Understanding of Securities LendingRisk and Margin business would be of further benefit
• Ability to handle teams working with multiple sites (onsite, offshore, near shore)
• Strong knowledge of relational databases
• Strong communication skills
• Strong design skills

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