Central Functions - Lead Engineer - BSL (f/m/x)

DB Global Technology is Deutsche Bank’s technology centre in Central and Eastern Europe. Since its set-up in 2013, Bucharest Technology Centre (BEX) has constantly proven its capacity to deliver global technology products and services, playing a dynamic role in the Bank’s technology transformation.

We have a robust, hands-on engineering culture dedicated to continuous learning, knowledge-sharing, technical skill development and networking. We are an essential part of the Bank’s technology platform and develop applications for many important business areas.

We are building a new Engineering Excellence function inside Private Bank, and we’re looking for senior engineers who thrive on solving hard technical problems, driving reliability and elevating engineering teams across the organization.

As part of this group, you will rotate into squads and application teams to uplift reliability, automation, performance, security and deliver best practices. You will act as hands-on expert, accelerator and multiplier to improve systems and the teams that own them.

Responsibilities: 

• Embed resilience and modern engineering patterns:

You design and implement autoscaling, circuit breaking, bulkheads, rate limiters, retry strategies, and other quality features across critical services

• Improve operational excellence:

You partner with teams to reduce toil, improve Mean Time to Recover (MTTR), strengthen alerting and monitoring, and mature their incident/problem management processes.

• Advanced engineering best practices:

You introduce and refine modern standards: GitOps, distributed tracing, load testing, Open Telemetry, CI/CD Maturity, chaos engineering, and more.

• Strengthen central shared platforms:

You help evolve the bank’s shared engineering services (platform engineering, monitoring, infrastructure deployment) to ensure they meet real workload needs.

• Coach, uplift, and multiply:

You act as a technical mentor: pairing, reviewing, teaching, inspiring and generally raising the engineering skillset in every environment you enter.

Skills:

• A strong engineering foundation: A Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent discipline.
• Hands-on experience with modern platforms: Deep experience with Docker / Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. 
• Solid backend fundamentals: Experience with REST APIs, Java and/or JavaScript, microservices and modern CI/CD tooling (GitHub, Bitbucket, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• Performance and Database knowledge: Skilled in performance testing, profiling, database optimization, and interpreting the results (Oracle, PostgreSQL) 
• Infrastructure as code and automation mindset: Proficiency with Helm, GitOps Workflows, Ansible, TerraForm.
• Security awareness: Good knowledge of TLS, OAuth2, secrets management (Vault, KMS), microservice security patterns, and certificate lifecycles.
• A collaborative and proactive mindset:

You communicate clearly, influence without authority, and enjoy hands-on with diverse technology teams.

Soft Skills: 

• Clear and strong written and verbal communication (English required, German nice-to-have).
• Comfort working in international, distributed engineering environments.
• Ability to quickly build trust and guide teams through change.

Nice to have: 

• Operational Experience with logging / monitoring tools (New Relic, Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana).

Well-being & Benefits

Emotionally and mentally balanced: We support you in dealing with life crises, maintaining stability through illness, and maintaining good mental health.

• Empowering managers who value your ideas and decisions. Show your positive attitude, determination, and open-mindedness.
• A professional, passionate, and fun workplace.
• A modern office with fun and relaxing areas to boost creativity.
• Continuous learning culture with coaching and support from team experts.
• A culture where you can openly speak about mental health.

Physically thriving: We support you in managing your physical health by taking appropriate preventive measures and providing a workplace that helps you thrive. For example, Private healthcare and life insurance with premium benefits for you and discounts for your loved ones, healthier ways of working and check-ups.

Socially connected: We strongly believe in collaboration, inclusion and feeling connected to open up new perspectives and strengthen our self-confidence and well-being.

• 24 days holiday, loyalty days, and bank holidays (including weekdays for weekend bank holidays).
• Hybrid working model with 40% remote work.
• Options for flexible working hours.
• Enjoy retailer discounts, cultural and CSR activities, workshops, and more.

Financially secure: We support you in meeting personal financial goals during your active career and for the future.

• Competitive income, performance-based promotions, and a sense of purpose.
• Meal vouchers, bonuses for referrals

Interested in more: discover what our employees value in the Well-being & Benefits hub!

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.