Credit Risk Lead Architect

Job Title Credit Risk Lead Architect

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

Credit Risk Technology (CRT), a division of Risk, Finance and Treasury Technology (RFT), is the primary technology partner to the Credit Risk Management division of Deutsche Bank.

As a Lead Architect, your deliverables will require you to work as part of a team, as well as giving guidance, consultancy and direction to other feature teams and technical leadership.

You will bring an expert approach to software development with a constant focus on business value.

Your key responsibilities

• Collaborate with, and provide guidance to, a team of architects, engineers and product owners to produce best-of-breed designs and architecture documentation, whilst championing the architecture governance processes
• Understand the enterprise system landscape to propose solution designs to problems in the right area of the Bank
• Design and develop reference implementations, proof of concepts and architecturally critical components, in a range of technologies as demanded by the task at hand
• Work closely with business owners, architects and engineers to ensure optimal design of Credit Risk Systems to support all use cases
• Define and champion best practice software development standards in line with the firm’s standards and industry’s best practices

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 be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.

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.

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

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

• Knowledge of Financial Services, with a good understanding of Corporate and Investment Banking Products and processes. Experience of middle office systems such as Risk Management highly desirable, with an appetite to further expand their Financial Services knowledge
• Software development experience in an Object Oriented (Java preferred) language; in addition exposure to Python, Spark, Map-Reduce, Scala advantageous
• Deep knowledge of RDBMS (Oracle 11g-26ai preferred), with understanding of multi-terabyte database design, including ETL, OLAP, OLTP and Data Warehousing concepts, as well as Big Data and NoSQL solutions
• Exposure to Cloud products, GCP preferred, including Terraform. Exposure to DevOps skills including Jenkins, Git, Confluence, expected
• Exposure to systemic integrations with LLMs / AI / Machine Learning
• Experience of best practice TDD, BDD, CI/CD and DevOps principles. Experience of Scrum, Kanban or XP. Familiarity with Scaled Agile development approaches beneficial