Job Description:
Job Title
Chief Architect
Location
London
Corporate Title
Director
You will be joining the TDI Engineering (Field Engineering) group as Chief Architect working to define and execute on firm impacting strategies around our core developer tooling and experience (including externally facing governance and compliance frameworks).
You will be working with the group's Chief Engineer and senior leaders to establish the future state landscape for our engineering community.
What we'll offer you
Hybrid Working
We understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a Hybrid Working Model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them.
You can expect:
- Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a Hybrid Working 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
- Designing and executing the architecture and strategies for core developer technology and tooling
- Providing short and long-term plans for strategic Cloud and hybrid governance and deployment solutions enabling our target state
- Overseeing large platform engineering groups to ensure speed and stability of core platforms
- Working with the group's chief engineer to drive engineering focused culture and practice (including product ownership of tooling in this area)
- Supporting and defining risk and control mitigation strategies
Your skills and experience
- Hands-on architect with a proven track record of building out developer tooling at scale
- Experienced polyglot developer (full stack)
- Extensive and broad knowledge of the development lifecycle and CICD practices
- Extensive and broad expertise in modern software delivery techniques including engineering practices such as XP and ways of working such as DevOps, agile methodologies and lean as well as continuous improvement techniques and research such as DORA, Noda's DevEx and SPACE
- Proven communication and influencing skills
- Passion and drive to act as a change agent and drive transformation
How we'll support you
- Training and development to help you excel in your career
- Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
- A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
- A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
- We value diversity and as an equal opportunity's 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 have been named a The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 for five consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.
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.