Technology Management Senior Analyst

Role Description

The Channels Global Applications Team within DWS Asset Management Technology is aiming to recruit a Senior Engineer. This role is ideal for an experienced Software Developer who is seeking a challenging and rewarding engagement, with the potential to grow both their career and their understanding of many applications and technologies.

In DWS Asset Management, many applications are used to support the Sales and Marketing divisions. Each application must comply with Asset Management application governance, policy, and procedures.

• At DWS, were capturing the opportunities of tomorrow. You can be part of a leading, client-committed, global Asset Manager, making an impact on individuals, communities, and the world.
• Join us on our journey, and you can shape our transformation by working side by side with industry thought-leaders and gaining new and diverse perspectives. You can share ideas and be yourself, whilst driving innovative and sustainable solutions that influence markets and behaviors for the better.
• Every day brings the opportunity to discover a new now, and here at DWS, youll be supported as you overcome challenges and reach your ambitions. This is your chance to lead an extraordinary career and invest in your future.

Your key responsibilities

This specific role is to act as a Senior Engineer reporting to the Global Applications Product Manager. The main objective of the Senior Engineer is to support the DWS Sales and Marketing divisions in building a holistic Sales Data Warehouse function, including the management of related controls as well as other infrastructure artifacts.

You will be asked to develop and enhance batch processes to take in various data feeds to apply updates to the Sales Data Warehouse. This will involve extensive knowledge and experience with Control-M batch scheduling, UNIX batch scripting, Informatica ETL development, MSSQL stored procedure development, MSSQL database management, DOS batch scripting, and ASP.NET development.

As a Senior Engineer you will:

• Support the development, implementation, maintenance and continuous improvement of the DWS Global Applications framework, in particular the approach to fulfil regulatory requirements and define process criticality.
• Identification of process weaknesses and process improvements aimed to address such weaknesses, test the hypothesis on a selected range of processes
• Detail requirements for the design and implementation of the application framework to ensure consistency with process management activities.
• Prepare insights for the organization (divisional COOs, Executive and Supervisory Board) on potential for improvement and improvement initiatives to launch.

Your skills and experience

• University degree ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
• At least 5 years experience in banking and/or asset management, preferrable in Software Development, System Architecture, System Analysis, and Production Support related activities
• Solid domain knowledge in the Asset Management / Banking industry, with respect to regulatory frameworks and industry standards
• Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders (to Senior Management / Regulators)
• Process modeling experience or other BPM / Operational excellence certification are considered a plus.
• Direct and/or indirect experience in operational risk management or controls management in either 1st or 2nd Line of Defense are considered a plus
• Proficient in MS PowerPoint, Excel, and Word, experience with a Business Process Management Tool is considered a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Working knowledge of JIRA and Confluence tools
• MSSQL creating SQL scripts and stored procedures
• Wintel - DOS scripting, SFTP connectivity concepts, and PuTTY
• Unix - scripting, SFTP connectivity concepts, account/group setup/permissions concepts, file system concepts
• Informatica / ETL tools
• Control-M job scheduling
• ASP.NET framework/core knowledge
• Networking Basic Networking knowledge: IP addresses, IP subnets, NATing.