Senior Engineer (COBOL) - Home Loan Savings - AVP ( COBOL )

Role description

Our Home Loan Savings teams at Deutsche Bank - Private Bank (TDI) develop and maintain applications for home loan savings business of Private Customers (BHW). Changes are implemented on time to market challenges as well as on development of the application landscape by using Google Cloud technology. In addition to the SAP-based home loan savings and mortgage lending core systems the application portfolio also includes the business partner data systems, the connection to payment transactions, as well as the interface to the frontends and the data preparation and delivery for the banks dispositive systems.

We are acting as a pilot for the migration to the Google Cloud with our applications and are preparing for the transition to an agile collaboration model. We are now building a team in India to work closely with the existing team in Germany, leveraging virtual collaboration techniques and the diversity of our team to achieve our goals of continuous delivery, process improvement, and internalization of technical expertise.

As an engineer, you are responsible for the design and implementation of technical solutions within the BHW system landscape. You are an expert in COBOL on x86. You work closely with colleagues from the business analysis, IT architecture and IT operation departments in both agile and waterfall ways, contributing to the success of the growing domain Home Loan Savings.

Your Key responsibilities

• Together with the solution architects you drive the architecture of our platform and the development process and are responsible for software design in your area.
• Your primary focus will be on software design, development and unit-testing activities including peer code reviews.
• You provide high-quality solutions that meet functional as well as non-functional requirements.
• You support the team of project managers, solution architects and business analysts at all stages of the software life cycle (feasibility studies, effort estimates, technical design, development, testing and documentation)
• You stay up to date (especially Google Cloud Technology), supported by internal and external training, continuously develop and proactively share your knowledge with your colleagues
• You support the operation of our existing IT landscape through 3rd Level Support

Your skills and Experiences

• Expertise and long-term experience in Cobol development, especially on an x86 platform with Micro-Focus in combination with Oracle, SQL, and PL/SQL
• Very good knowledge of architecture and integration patterns, code conventions and other best practices
• Experience working on UNIX Shell scripting
• Basic development knowledge in Oracle including writing basic to complex queries.
• Very good knowledge of architecture and integration patterns, code conventions and other best practices
• Experience with Agile/SCRUM environment including agile tooling together with Experience and knowledge of investment business and its operations.
• Pro-active team player with good communication and English language skills.