Director - Principal Engineer

Role Summary:

DWS is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead engineering initiatives in support of its core asset management platforms, REIT (real estate infrastructure funds), private equity, derivates, hedging, and illiquid/alternative funds. You will drive the modernization and automation of investment technology infrastructure, collaborating with business, operations, and data teams. This role requires deep understanding of portfolio management platforms, and advanced knowledge of cloud-native data engineering platforms like Snowflake and GCP.

Your responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the engineering , design and delivery of digital platforms and is responsible for managing or performing work across multiple areas of the bank's overall ITPlatform/Infrastructureincluding analysis, development, and administration. It may also involve taking functional oversight of engineering delivery for specific departments. Work includes:

• Define and lead the software engineering vision for investment technologies across illiquid fund platforms
• Collaborate closely with investment, operations, and data teams to build scalable, automated, and data-driven solutions.
• Lead vendor and platform integration strategies (e.g. Aladdin , YARDI, Pathfinder, Snowflake etc.)
• Architect and deliver scalable, secure, and performant solutions for investment workflowsportfolio construction, trade lifecycle, order management, and performance analytics.
• Implement APIs and event-driven architecture for near-real-time data exchange across platforms.
• Optimize and automate manual processes related to trade support, pricing, valuation, NAV processing, and reconciliation.
• Leverage Snowflake for building secure and governed data products consumed across analytics, operations, and reporting.
• Deep understanding of platforms related to illiquid, including experience with data ingestion, portfolio analytics, and integration patterns.
• Experience designing solutions around REITs, fund of funds, private credit, and liquid real assets.
• Enable data democratization by implementing policy-based access control and observability.
• Ensure software quality, regulatory compliance, and risk management are embedded throughout the development lifecycle.
• Manage external and internal audits, working closely with data governance, compliance, and cybersecurity teams.
• Planning and developing entire engineering solutions to accomplish business goals
• Building reliability and resiliency into solutions with appropriate testing and reviewing throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Ensuring maintainability and reusability of engineering solutions.
• Ensuring solutions are well architected and can be integrated successfully into the end-to-end business process flow.
• Reviewing engineering plans and quality to drive re-use and improve engineering capability
• Participating in industry forums to drive adoption of innovative technologies, tools, and solutions in the Bank.
• Architect, develop, and maintain UI components using React.js and JavaScript.
• Define and enforce best practices for UI development, coding standards and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers, product managers and backend developers to deliver seamless responsive interfaces.
• Write clean, maintainable and well-documented code.
• Drive code reviews, unit testing and integration testing processes.
• Contribute to architecture and design decisions for scalable frontend systems and own performance, accessibility and cross browser compatibility.

We are looking for:

Must Have Technology Skills:

• 20+ years of hands-on technical and functional experience in financial industry within asset/investment management or capital markets.
• Strong understanding of financial instruments: alternatives, private equity, private credit, and structured products.
• Experience working with portfolio managers, risk, compliance, and operations teams.
• Familiarity with NAV, position and cash management, pricing, and reconciliation processes.
• Deep familiarity with Aladdin, YARDI, Pathfinder, Snowflake, SQL, and enterprise data management.
• App development with technologies such as: Java, Springboot, React JS, Kafka, Cloud, CI/CD, Dev Ops, Test Automation, Camunda, container based applications.
• Architected and delivered scalable, secure, and performant solutions for investment workflowsportfolio construction, trade lifecycle, order management, and performance analytics.
• APIs and event-driven architecture for near-real-time data exchange across platforms.
• Optimize and automate manual processes related to trade support, pricing, valuation, NAV processing, and reconciliation.
• Leverage Snowflake for building secure and governed data products consumed across analytics, operations, and reporting.
• Progressive engineering hands on development experience to lead engineering teams with enterprise scale applications
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native platforms (GCP), microservices, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC.
• Strong Agile skills with running Dev Ops, IT Risk and control, SRE scrum teams and squads.

Skills that will help you shine:

Team Management:

• Experience working in or integrating with other investment platforms like Charles River, SimCorp, or FactSet.
• Knowledge of data governance platforms (e.g., Collibra, Alation).
• Experience with people development with respect to training, upskilling, providing right opportunities within India and global squads.
• Promotes engineering culture and improves productivity amongst India FTE and vendor staff. Grooms and coaches the team providing proper career progression.
• Dynamic resource management and close collaboration with DWS global tech and product teams.
• Excellent skills and appetite to maintain risk & control hygiene. Streamline ITAO processes with automation.
• Will require broader promotion of people strategy activities within DWS Tech India.
• Recruits additional talent in a timely manner, grows the team in India with new skills such as Workfusion AI, Blockchain & Tokenization.

Stakeholder/Business Management:

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills to work with India operations, EMEA/APAC business leaders.
• Knowledge in Banking Payment systems will be a huge plus.

Educational & technical qualification requirements:

• Bachelors Degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Science or an IT-related discipline (or equivalent)
• More than 10 years experience (hands-on) development in full stack solutions