Director of Rates and Credit Reliability Engineering

Job Title Director of Rates and Credit Reliability Engineering

Location London

Corporate Title Director

The Fixed Income and Currencies (FIC) business is a $7bn global franchise within Deutsche Bank’s Investment Bank. It is highly technology-dependent, demanding low latency, high scale, and exceptional availability. The FIC Technology Production team ensures the operational stability of this business-critical environment.

This senior leadership role will report to the Head of FIC Production & Reliability Engineering. You will spearhead the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) function across FIC Technology—defining and executing the strategic vision— while remaining embedded in managing and accountable for day-to-day production stability in the Rates & Credit business.

You will be responsible for the resilience, scalability, and performance of mission-critical trading and risk systems—particularly within the Rates & Credit business—while also influencing SRE practices across FX, Repo, Emerging Markets, Listed Derivatives and other Core Platforms.

You will work closely with senior business and technology stakeholders to shape the future of Production Engineering, while remaining deeply engaged in the technical architecture, stability, incident response, and automation efforts that underpin our trading platforms.

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

• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Define and drive the SRE strategy across FIC Technology, aligning reliability goals with business priorities and regulatory expectations

• Lead the transformation of production support into a proactive, data-driven engineering discipline focused on automation, observability, and continuous improvement

• Stay close to the technology—reviewing architecture, contributing to tooling, and leading by example in incident response and root cause analysis

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior trading, risk, and technology leaders, ensuring transparency, alignment, and shared accountability for platform health

• Develop and mentor high-performing SRE aligned individuals, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and engineering excellence

Your skills and experience

• Proven experience leading SRE or Production Engineering functions in complex, high-availability environments—ideally within capital markets

• Advanced proficiency in Linux/Unix systems, SQL, and programming languages such as C++, Java or Python. Strong understanding of distributed systems and low-latency architectures

• Hands-on experience with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Geneos, OpenTelemetry) and infrastructure automation (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines)

• Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle, market data, and fixed income products, FX or algorithmic trading experience is a plus

• Familiarity with hybrid cloud environments, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern deployment practices

• Expertise in incident management, post-mortem culture, change governance, and risk frameworks in regulated environments

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career

• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities

• 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.