Transformation - AS

Role Description

About DWS:

• Today, markets face a whole new set of pressures but also a whole lot of opportunity too. Opportunity to innovate differently. Opportunity to invest responsibly. And opportunity to make change.
• Join us at DWS, and you can be part of an industry-leading firm with a global presence.
• You can lead ambitious opportunities and shape the future of investing. You can support our clients, local communities, and the environment.

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 key responsibilities

Lead Engineer 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:

• Developing 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.

Your skills and experience

Must Have:

• Overall experience of 4+ years with hands-on coding in Java & frontend development.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, node.js and React.js
• Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS and responsive design.

Desirable skills that will help you excel

• Prior experience working in Agile/scum environment.
• Proficient in any UI framework/library ( REACT/ANGULAR/VUE/NEXT )
• Well versed with commonly used Data Structures and Algorithms
• Understanding of REST based Architecture and concepts
• Understanding of Design Patterns and Principles.
• Understanding of cross-browser, mobile first development
• Unit Testing - writing unit/e2e tests.
• Exposure to cloud platforms is a plus (preferably GCP).
• Strong problem solving and communications skills.
• Working knowledge of GIT, Jenkins, CICD, Gradle, DevOps and SRE techniques

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant technology & science
• Technology certifications from any industry leading cloud providers