Deutsche Bank

Foreign Exchange Production Engineering Lead

India · Work style not stated · Full time

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  • EmployerDeutsche Bank
  • LocationIndia
  • Work styleWork style not stated
  • Employment typeFull time
  • Employer posted

Job Description:

Job Title: Foreign Exchange Production Engineering Lead

Corporate Title:Vice President

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

WWe are seeking an experienced and highly capable Production Engineering Lead to support the Foreign Exchange businesses. This role is pivotal in ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our real-time trading platforms. You will apply SRE principles to proactively manage system health, drive operational excellence, and collaborate closely with senior traders, developers, and cross-functional teams to optimize front-to-back workflows. As a technical leader, you will be responsible for maintaining platform availability, resolving complex issues, and championing automation and observability initiatives. Your ability to lead a team, communicate effectively across business and technology stakeholders, and operate under pressure in a fast-paced trading environment will be critical to success.

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What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy,

Best in class leave policy.

Gender neutral parental leaves

100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)

Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education

Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members

Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents

Accident and Term life Insurance

Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

Maintaining overall availability of the trading platform

Leading a team of 10+ individuals to drive SRE principles, improved reliability of our platforms and TOIL reduction

Responding to user queries and requests in a timely manner; being a Subject Matter Expert

Identifying, investigating, and resolving application/infrastructure issues impacting the business; whilst ensuring communication updates provided at regular intervals

Ensuring internal postmortems include strategic follow-ups, in a bid to reduce repeat occurrences of issues & incidents

Identifying and implementing potential automation opportunities such as self-healing scripts to reduce manual tasks, increase efficiency, and improve resiliency

Conducting Start of Week/Day checks, observing and acting on monitoring alerts, and keeping oversight of high-profile technology processes, particularly those relating to exchange obligations

Acting as the gatekeeper to production; critically reviewing all changes prior to deployments and conducting post-change validation checks (may include some Out of Hours activities)

Working closely with Project Managers, Functional Business Analysts, and Developers to introduce new functionality and enhancements to the trading platform

Setting up new & maintaining existing Monitoring environments; strong focus on observability for early issue detection of latency, capacity, etc

Participating in Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plan exercises (may include some Out of Hours activities)

Active participation in local, regional, and global process improvement initiatives

Engagement in wider Technology forums, ie Engineering Days, Hackathons, Data Science events, etc

Your skills and experience

Prior leadership experience essential; managing teams of 5+

10+ experience in a production support, SRE, or DevOps role within a trading or financial services environment

Strong technical skills in Linux/Unix systems, SQL, and scripting

Strong experience with a programming language such as Python, Java, etc

Strong experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Geneos, OpenTelemetry, Corvil)

Familiarity with cloud platforms, containerization (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), and CI/CD pipelines

Have a strong understanding of the trade lifecycle and fundamental trading systems. Knowledge of FX related products and market structure and/or algorithmic trading advantageous.

Exceptional verbal and written skills, to communicate effectively with business users, technology peers, and senior management alike

Direct trade floor experience is advantageous

Self-motivated, proactive in nature, and ability to work independently; as well as collaboratively in a global organisation

Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

How we’ll support you

Training and development to help you excel in your career.

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.

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.html

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.

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  • Employment typeFull time
  • SeniorityLead / Principal
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