Principal Engineering Lead

Team / division overview

The Chief Operating Office (COO) , CTO DWS Tech Division is a key enabler for DWS and is integral to the future success of the company by delivering world-class services across a set of key functions. It covers essential Technology and Operations capabilities, and aims to deliver a platform which is efficient, scalable, resilient and agile.

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:

• 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:

• 15-20 years of hands-on technical and functional experience in financial industry app development with technologies such as: Java, Springboot, React JS, Kafka, Cloud, CI/CD, Dev Ops, Test Automation.
• Progressive engineering hands on development experience to lead engineering teams with enterprise scale applications
• 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 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.