Senior IT Application Owner (f/m/x) – Foreign Exchange Technology

About the job

Deutsche Bank Technology in Berlin

DB Technology is a global team of tech specialists, spread across multiple trading hubs and tech centres. We have a strong focus on promoting technical excellence – our engineers work at the forefront of financial services innovation using cutting-edge technologies.

Our Berlin location is our most recent addition to our global network of tech centres and growing strongly. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and to creating excellent opportunities for talented engineers and technologists. Our tech teams and business units use agile ways of working to create #GlobalHausbank solutions from our home market.

Global Foreign Exchange

Global Foreign Exchange (GFX) is a vital part of the DB Investment Bank that provides our clients with many ways to manage their currency risk. Deutsche Bank has been ranked the Overall FX Market Leader by market share in the 2022 Euromoney FX Survey. Deutsche Bank ranked top in 50% of all categories in the survey, including No 1 for overall market share, swaps (unadjusted), options, overall electronic FX, emerging market volume (unadjusted swaps), precious metals, banks and non-financial corporates.

GFX heavily relies on its technology to stay ahead of the competition. Our products are used by clients, trading desks, sales and operations. They provide connectivity with brokers, exchanges and clearing houses. The development of our products gives engineers a unique ability to learn business, work with big data and analytics.

We use MongoDB, ClickHouse, Kafka, Redis, Ignite, gRPC, Spark, Tableau and other technologies to build our platform. We build cloud-ready solutions and host them on-premises (GCP Anthos) and public clouds (GCP GKE). For writing Frontends we leverage Autobahn Platform, that is used by thousands external and internal users.

What will the employee gain from this role

• Experience in building world #1 platform in electronic FX trading

• Experience in building Hybrid Cloud platform for low-latency trading applications

• Working with a geographically dispersed team of high skilled professionals

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Your key responsibilities

• Act as single Point of Contact for all queries related to management of your assets

• Work with and aid the development teams to achieve compliance with DB policies, internal assessments, external audits and regulatory requirements

• Negotiate with infrastructure teams and engage vendors where necessary

• Setup new and improve existing processes

• Work with application teams to adopt Google Cloud and Hybrid Cloud platforms

Your skills and experiences

• Strong project coordination skills

• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills – ability to communicate at all levels with both engineers, support staff and senior management

• Basic technical background about infrastructure: servers, storages, networks, databases and

• Structured approach to work and attention to detail

• Understanding of key elements of security, risk & controls

What we offer

We provide you with a comprehensive portfolio of benefits and offerings to support both, your private and professional needs.

• Emotionally and mentally balanced
  A positive mind helps us master the challenges of everyday life – both professionally and privately. We offer consultation in difficult life situations as well as mental health awareness trainings.

• Physically thriving
  We support you in staying physically fit through an offering to maintain personal health and a professional environment. You can benefit from health check-ups; vaccination drives as well as advice on healthy living and nutrition.

• Socially connected
  Networking opens up new perspectives, helps us thrive professionally and personally as well as strengthens our self-confidence and well-being. You can benefit from PME family service, FitnessCenter Job, flexible working (e.g parttime, hybrid working, job tandem) as well as an extensive culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.

• Financially secure
  We provide you with financial security not only during your active career but also for the future. You can benefit from offerings such as pension plans, banking services, company bicycle or “Deutschlandticket”.

Since our offerings slightly vary across locations, please contact your recruiter with specific questions.

This job is available in full and parttime.

In case of any recruitment related questions, please get in touch with Luisa Moderzinski.

Contact Luisa Moderzinski: 0151 56516413

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.