Lead Technology Manager

IT Architect Lead

Job Description:

Job title: IT Architect Lead
Corporate title: VP / Director
Location: Pune

Overview

Regulatory and Cross Product Technology in Corporate and Investment Banking Technology is a fast paced demanding environment to work in. Our workload is high with strong demand for delivery.  To ensure that we remain an engineering focused organization, we are looking for a passionate technologist who can ensure we strive for the highest quality architecture and design across our teams. 

You will join the Corporate and Investment Bank IT team and will be reporting directly to the Head of Architecture for Regulatory and Cross Products Technology.

Role Description

You will collaborate across architecture domains to ensure that well designed solutions are built and released to our customers.  You will share a passion for excellent architecture and engineering led by robust well thought through designs and architecture.  You will govern the architecture process, improving it where we are not enabling teams to build solutions that are fit for purpose and genuinely impactful to the businesses they support.  Through reviews and guidance you will help teams understand how to avoid problems and ensure solutions are principled and delivering the capabilities required in the right way.

To be successful in this role you will …

• set the direction of the architecture for the domain across your own team and the wider delivery teams.  You will be the North Star for our teams to follow, as you collaborate with them through delivery.
• enjoy having a multi-faceted role.  Your focus will span the many architecture and technology concerns: technical, functional, data and enterprise architecture. 
• grow our people on better ways of working, embedding architecture and design into our culture.  Working across other architecture functions refining how we do architecture in the firm aligned to optimised ways of working.
• ensure the overall design of the domain is fit for purpose, and where not fix it.  Regularly reviewing the implementations of the designs to ensure they do actually do what they should, in the right way with the right stability.
• join business and technology together so they fit seamlessly.  Your business will think of you as their architect owning and designing solutions to real world business problems.
• form a consistent design as you form consensus with other architecture domains to build the wider Corporate and Investment Banking architecture.
• be a part of a wider architecture and engineering community striving to build excellent solutions to important business problems.

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

About you

This is a challenging role.  You will need to have some core skills, you will also learn new skills in doing the role.  You will have big wins and make mistakes, we know this is how we grow.  To be successful in the role we think you will have a combination of …

• a strong credible history in a architectural/functional delivery role;
• a background and passion for good quality solutions; you will have strong opinions on better ways of designing and architecting solutions and support delivery
• a good head for design and architecture (not necessarily formal methods); you will likely natively gravitate to a white-board in conversations
• a desire to help people grow through coaching and leadership; you will be able to tell us your experiences in helping other people develop
• a belief that strong collaboration builds better solutions
• the ability to think strategically yet also be mindful of commercial realities
• a natural ability to present and convince people of a strategic direction
• critical thinking and challenging others; this may very well be frequent feedback you get

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.

Experience Level

Senior Level