Job Description:

Job Title Foreign Exchange Production – US Lead

Corporate Title Vice President

Location New York, NY

Overview

The Technology, Data, and Innovation (TDI) division is responsible for driving an integrated Information Technology (IT), data, and security agenda across the Bank. The function is responsible for implementing the Bank’s technology strategy focused on strengthening engineering expertise, introducing an agile delivery model, reducing administrative overheads, de-coupling assets within our IT estate for faster, cost-efficient deployments, as well as modernizing the Bank’s IT infrastructure with long-term investments and benefiting from cloud computing. Within TDI, Investment Banking, Fixed Income Currencies Technology – the Foreign Exchange Production Team are responsible for maintaining application stability the Deutsche Bank Foreign Exchange Franchise. The team provides front line support to the trading and sales business community and external clients for the Foreign Exchange (FX) applications (Pricing and Trading) and their associated applications used by the Global Foreign Exchange business, including the electronic trading applications. The team is responsible for management of Deutsche Bank’s premier FX trading platforms providing execution, market data and post-trade services to external and internal clients.

What We Offer You

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration

• A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days

• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement

• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits

• Educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs

What You’ll Do

• Set and track short-, medium- and long-term priorities for cross-locational teams based in US (NY, Jacksonville), as well as Set up new and maintain existing monitoring environments for proactive overall availability of the trading platform

• Be aware of brewing issues, upcoming market events, and ongoing projects to prioritize workloads effectively

• Maintain and strengthen professional working relationships with Front Office Trading, Sales, and Product & Business Partners, while working closely with development and infrastructure teams globally, to remediate issues, introduce new functionality, and enhance the trading platforms

• Manage the UNIX/Windows application and database server estate, as well as identify, investigate, and resolve application/infrastructure issues impacting the Business; whilst ensuring communication updates provided at regular intervals

• Ensure strategic follow-ups (incl. reviewing opportunities for automation) take place in a bid to reduce repeat occurrences of issues & incident, in addition to ensuring appropriate resourcing and planning in place for activities such as Application Releases, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity Plan exercises, etc

• Active participation in local, regional, and global process improvement initiatives, while being responsible for Engagement in wider Technology forums when possible, ie Engineering Days, Hackathons, Data Science challenges, etc

How You’ll Lead

• Guide and support team members from a technical & management perspective; as well as taking escalations from and on behalf of the team

• Lead by example and participate in activities undertaken by existing team

• Provide specialist technical support for electronic pricing, trading and risk applications, plus post trade functionality and downstream feeds

Skills You’ll Need

• Industry experience, incl. several years of hands-on leadership within the Electronic Trading Application Support domain

• Strong understanding of Fixed Income Currencies Businesses, in particular the Foreign Exchange Business

• Strong technical skills ie Unix, Structured Query Language (SQL), Python & Shell Scripting, Geneos Monitoring, and Scheduling Tools, etc

• FIX messaging protocol experience

• Familiarity across the ITIL framework in Change, Incident, and Problem Management; as well as awareness of Agile concepts across the Software Development Life Cycle

Skills That Will Help You Excel

• A Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics

• Critical thinking mindset, excellent problem-solving skills, and ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced trading environment

• Temperament to work under pressure in a fast-moving production environment

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

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

Expectations

It is the Bank’s expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the New York office in accordance with the Bank’s hybrid working model.

Deutsche Bank provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees with a substantiated need based on disability and/or religion.

The salary range for this position in New York City is $120,000 to $200,000. Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications. Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of renumeration.

Deutsche Bank Values & Diversity

We believe talent is found in all cultures, countries, races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs, generations, backgrounds, and experiences. We pursue a working environment where everyone can be authentic and feel a sense of belonging. Click here to find out more about our diversity and inclusion efforts.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer - Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories.

Click these links to view the following notices: EEO is the Law poster and supplement; Employee Rights and Responsibilities under the Family and Medical Leave Act; Employee Polygraph Protection Act and Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision

Learn more about your life at Deutsche Bank through the eyes of our current employees: https://careers.db.com/life

Deutsche Bank Benefits

At Deutsche Bank, we recognize that our benefit programs have a profound impact on our colleagues. That’s why we are focused on providing benefits and perks that enable our colleagues to live authenti­cally and be their whole selves, at every stage of life. We provide access to physical, emotional, and financial wellness benefits that allow our colleagues to stay financially secure and strike balance between work and home. Click here to learn more!

#LI-HYBRID

Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.

We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

Visit Inside Deutsche Bank to discover more about the culture of Deutsche Bank including Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Leadership, Learning, Future of Work and more besides.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer - Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories. Click these links to view the following notices: EEO is the Law poster and supplement; Employee Rights and Responsibilities under the Family and Medical Leave Act; Employee Polygraph Protection Act and Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision.