Platform Engineering Strat

Job Title Platform Engineering Strat

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

Group Strategic Analytics (GSA) is part of Group Chief Operation Office (COO) which acts as the bridge between the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions to help deliver the efficiency, control, and transformation goals of the Bank.

You will be joining the Core Platform Engineering team, which delivers an information security compliant environment for the bulk of the Strat application space. This includes software development in Python, C++ and Google Cloud (GCP) Infrastructure as Code as well as liaison with non-financial-risk officers and platform System Administrators.  These environments are used to run large scale real time and batch computation and are critical to meet the commitments of the business to both clients and regulators.   The team develops high quality tools whilst working hard to foster a culture of collaboration and engineering excellence. You will make a crucial contribution to the efforts to accelerate the delivery of changes required by the bank’s committed to meeting internal audit and regulators requirements in this area, which are frequently driven by tight regulatory requirements.

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

• Implementing and improving the run-time environment and so enhancing its regulatory compliance and robustness whilst minimising outages.  
• Working with the Strats community as a whole to facilitate integration of controls across the application stack. 
• Supporting and improving Strats integration with the evolving IT and Information Security policies within Deutsche Bank reflecting those required across the banking industry. 
• Conduct structured analysis of application processes, identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement. Perform impact assessments and support solution design aligned with compliance and regulatory standards.
• Gather, validate, and document business requirements; translate them into clear functional and technical specifications.
• Proactive identification of risks to avoid external (Regulator, Statutory, Group Audit) finding scrutiny, and work with the team to build adequate control solutions.

Your skills and experience

• Ability to interpret policy and compliance materials and assess if software and procedures conform to it accurately and sustainably. 

• Work with developers and contribute to source code in a mixed programming language environment, particularly Python and C++. 

• Strong business analysis expertise with structured problem-solving skills and procedures 

• Knowledge of financial markets and trading best practice 

• The ability to communicate effectively across multiple teams and functions, in addition to excellent presentational skills 

How we’ll support you.

• 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 The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025 for six 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.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on [email protected] to discuss how we can best support you. Alternatively, you can share your phone number, and a member of the team will be happy to call you to talk through your specific requirements.

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.