Observability Engineering Lead

The Enterprise Observability Engineering team is at the heart of Deutsche Bank’s technology transformation. Our mission is to provide a unified, scalable, and resilient observability platform that delivers deep insights into the health and performance of our critical applications and infrastructure. By leveraging open standards and best-in-class tooling, we empower our engineering community to build, run, and innovate with confidence. This role is pivotal in our strategy to adopt Open Telemetry (OTEL) as the standard for telemetry data collection across the enterprise.

You will work closely with the lead Observability Architect to translate high-level architectural vision into actionable, robust, and compliant engineering designs. You will be instrumental in delivering the Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) based supervisory plane and the fleet of OTEL data collection agents, ensuring they are performant, scalable, and adhere to the bank's standards.

What we’ll offer you:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them.
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days.
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family.
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits.
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year.

Your key responsibilities:

• Collaborating with the observability architect to translate strategic architecture into detailed, practical designs for the OTEL collection tier and leading the engineering efforts to build, test, and deploy these solutions.
• Architect and build the collection pipeline to handle massive data volumes from thousands of applications and hosts across the globe.
• Guiding the global engineering team in the development and lifecycle management of the Open Telemetry data collection agents and the OpAMP-based supervisory control plane for large-scale agent management.
• Serving as the subject matter expert for OTEL implementation, ensuring all solutions strictly adhere to Deutsche Bank's internal technology standards, security policies, and critical regulatory guidelines (e.g., BaFin, MAS, GDPR).
• Designing and implementing mechanisms within the observability pipeline to manage and respect regional data protection and data sovereignty requirements, ensuring data is processed in the correct geographical jurisdictions.
• Providing technical guidance and mentorship to a globally distributed team of engineers. Fostering a culture of engineering excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
• Developing and maintaining dashboards and reports on the health, adoption, and performance of the OTEL ecosystem.
• Championing best practices for CI/CD, automated testing, and release management. Owning the debugging and resolution of complex technical issues across the observability stack.

Your skills and experience:

• Proven, hands-on experience designing and implementing solutions using the Open Telemetry framework (OTEL), including collectors, exporters, and instrumentation libraries.
• Extensive hands-on experience with at least one enterprise-grade observability tool (e.g., New Relic, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, ITRS Geneos) covering both Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Infrastructure Monitoring.
• Demonstrable experience in successfully engineering, deploying, and managing open-source based solutions within a large, complex enterprise environment.
• Familiarity with agent control planes and management protocols. Direct experience with OpAMP is a significant advantage.
• Strong software engineering background with proficiency in multiple languages such as GoLang and Python. Experience with Java and/or NodeJS for instrumentation purposes is highly valuable.
• Practical experience with key components of the modern observability ecosystem, including Prometheus and Grafana.
• Solid understanding and practical experience with high-throughput messaging systems, like Apache Kafka.
• Debugging and analytical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex performance and stability issues in distributed systems.

How we’ll support you:

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

We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards).

About us:

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on adjustmentsconcierge@db.com to discuss.

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.