Job Description:
Job Title
Head of Core Design of Transaction Control Strats
Location
London
Corporate Title
Director
Group Strategic Analytics (GSA) is part of Group Chief Operation Office (COO) which acts as the bridge between the Bank's businesses and infrastructure functions to help deliver the efficiency, control, and transformation goals of the Bank.
The Trading and Client Controls (TaCC) team sits within Deutsche Bank's GSA. GSA has a cross-business and cross-functional approach to solving complex quantitative tasks. The TaCC team has a global remit, across Investment and Corporate Banks, to develop bespoke anomaly detection models.
You will be responsible for the core design implementation of the internal and external fraud controls as well as being responsible for enhancing the quality, code structure, and automation of our quantitative codebase. Your role will be crucial in making our code more robust, efficient, and compliant with industry best practices.
What we'll 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. That's 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 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
- Identify areas in the existing codebase that require improvement and optimisation
- Develop and enforce coding guidelines and best practices to ensure consistency and maintainability
- Automate manual tasks and streamline the development and deployment of quantitative models
- Conduct regular code reviews to identify and rectify issues, ensuring compliance with established standards
- Implement robust testing procedures to verify the correctness and reliability of code and model logics
- Rationalise platforms and processes to provide business intelligence reports
Your skills and experience
- Experience in quantitative evaluation and financial modelling
- Educated to Bachelor's degree level or equivalent qualification/relevant work experience
- Coding experience in Python, experience with PySpark is preferred. Experience with very large datasets, Google cloud experience is beneficial
- P
roven experience in code refactoring, optimisation, and standardisation within a large code base
- E
xperience in putting in place testing and validation frameworks, including unit tests, and recalibration processes
- Strong documentation skills to create clear and comprehensive code documentation
How we'll support you
- Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
- 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
- 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 (for example. 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.
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