Senior Engineer (ITAO/Mainframe/COBOL/DB2/JCL/CICS)

Job Title: Senior Engineer (ITAO/Mainframe/COBOL/DB2/JCL/CICS)

Corporate Title: AVP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• Our Risk Services team at Deutsche Bank part of Banking & Lending Tribe Domain - Private Bank (TDI) develops & maintains applications for Credit Monitoring and Reporting. Projects are generally announced on short notice. Quality and stability have priority together with time to market.
• By working in an Agile DevOps model, we achieve very high quality while continuously delivering value to our clients. Located in Germany and India, we work closely together using agile and virtual collaboration techniques and our team’s diversity to reach our goals of continuous deployment, process improvement and internalizing engineering know how.
• As a Senior Engineer you will also work together with business and operation units and bring development skills to enforce the development team within a Squad. You will extensively make use and apply Continuous Integration tools and practices in the context of Deutsche Bank’s digitalization journey.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy,

• Best in class leave policy.
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• You are involved in the whole Software Development Lifecycle starting from analyzing requirements, developing, deploying and testing software as well as maintaining & continuously improving it.
• 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 actively participate and contribute into the sprint activities and ceremonies e.g. daily stand-up, Sprint planning, retrospectives, refinements etc.
• You collaborate with other team members to achieve the sprint objectives.
• Ensure Application Stability and Performance: Oversee the structural availability, stability, and performance of applications in your domain (PRD, UAT, SIT).
• Organize Level 3 Support and align/organize Level 2 Support: Collaborate with development teams to organize Level 3 support for the application and align with Service Operations/SO to organize Level 2 support (or setup L2 support in case this couldn’t provided by SO).
• Technical Roadmap Management: Manage the technical roadmap, including technology compliance, and estimate/budget capacity needs.
• Project Participation: Participate in Domain Expert Meetings and contribute to project cost estimates, including "Run the Bank" and total application cost.
• Knowledge and Documentation: Ensure the availability of all necessary application/service knowledge and documentation.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage and manage multiple stakeholders to ensure regulatory compliance, smooth operations, and a sound development lifecycle. This includes Business, Security, Development, Test (QA), IT Support, Finance, external Vendors, and Architecture.
• Service Availability and Stability: Be accountable for high service availability and stability, while managing projects for maintenance or enhancements.
• Technical Performance Monitoring: Monitor the technical performance of applications (Response Times, Error Rates, Memory/Storage Usage) and address issues.
• Audit Collaboration and Disaster recovery test: Work closely with Audit Teams to avoid delays or escalations related to non-compliance. Also, participate in Disaster recovery tests and ensure the successful completion.
• Change Management: Ensure changes to applications are fully aligned with DB standards and regulations, guaranteeing system stability and smooth transitions to production.
• Technical Project Management: Manage technical projects to maintain required service levels.
• Go Live Transitions: Contribute to Go Live transitions.

Your skills and experience

• At least 10 years’ experience in as a Mainframe system programmer and software engineer.
• Strong knowledge experience with standard Mainframe applications and technologies, including COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL and TSO
• Problem solving: Ability to manage unexpected events; control and deal with them quickly and efficiently. When confronted with a problem, you will need to collect information, analyze situation, point out solutions and apply them to solve perfectly in reasonable time
• IT Service Management and Cloud Technologies: Experience in IT Service management processes and cloud technologies.
• Distributed Development Teams: Experience working with distributed development teams – especially between Europe (Germany) and India - and familiarity with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills at all levels, including senior management.
• Analytical and Conceptual Thinking: Excellent analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Agile Delivery Teams: Strong independence and initiative, ability to work in agile delivery teams.
• Cloud Knowledge: High-level knowledge of Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and the ability to work on tight deadlines.
• Experience in Application management and compliance topics
• Process oriented, proactive, and self-motivated approach who has experience in keeping overall topics under control by monitoring

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career.
• Coaching and support from experts in your team.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs.

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.htm

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.