Job Title Solution Architect

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

You will be joining us as a Solution Architect for a flagship program within Anti Financial Crime Technology to define and own an architecture transformation roadmap aimed at satisfying Deutsche Bank's regulatory obligations in a timely, accurate and efficient manner.

A seasoned architecture professional, you come from a solid technical background in server-side technologies and databases. You are well-versed in capability models, domain driven design and used to debating and taking design decisions for applications, integrations, data models, technologies & infrastructure.

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 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

• Analysing business functions, processes, data & application architecture dimensions for the assigned subject area to produce optimum target architecture with viable interim states
• Grasping and managing complexity of the data integration environment and simplifying the landscape in compliance with data architecture standards and principles
• Ensuring that solutions are secure by design and core software can run on-prem or on-cloud with minimum customisation. Ensuring that vendor products integration happens within non-functional constraints as per bank standards
• Supporting & coaching technical leads across multiple squads by aiding Agile decisions while steering the architecture runway towards strategic direction
• Maintaining solution designs, architecture decision records, technical decision logs and technical debt registers and ensuring that these get embedded into Agile way of working for delivery squads

Your skills and experience

• Recent experience as a solution architect in a top-tier Bank or Fintech designing data intensive applications while operating in an Agile environment
• Excellent leadership and communication skills with ability to interface and with senior business and technology stakeholders as well as product managers, engineers, QA's and DevOps
• Experience rolling out large scale in-house and/or vendor products from inception to production considering for resilience, security & scalability requirements
• Competent in usage of tools like SparxEA, ArchiMate, Power Designer, Draw.io and comfortable utilising these tools during collaborative online workshops with stakeholders
• Prior hands-on experience in Java, Oracle, Kubernetes, MQ, Terraform and GCP preferred. Familiar with enterprise grade security standards and protocols
• Experience designing physical data models for relational and/or NoSQL databases with experience in frameworks like Apache Camel and Apache Spark. Any experience in SOLR would be nice to have

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
• 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 (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 in 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.