At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and govern architecture for applications detecting financial crime.
- Company: Deutsche Bank, a leading global bank with a commitment to diversity.
- Benefits: Hybrid working, competitive salary, 30 days holiday, and private healthcare.
- Other info: Continuous learning culture with excellent career progression opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in anti-financial crime while developing your technical skills.
- Qualifications: Experience as a Solution Architect in complex environments and familiarity with cloud technologies.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
As a hands-on technical solution architect within the Anti-Financial Crime department, you will join the existing architecture team and will be responsible for designing, documenting, and governing the architecture of critical applications that are used to detect and investigate potential instances of criminal activity whilst supporting the application engineering teams with the implementation. You will have a strong engineering background and are expected to contribute to engineering deliverables, prototyping, data-modelling and driving engineering alignment to designs through direct collaboration with development teams, ensuring code quality and actively uplifting quality 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
- Developing and owning technical designs that align with Group Architecture principles and support the department’s technology transformation.
- Tracking and managing design updates, resolving unforeseen engineering obstacles effectively.
- Shaping the technology roadmap by evaluating emerging tools and established techniques, balancing cost, complexity, and performance.
- Collaborating with senior stakeholders across Business, Model Development, and Technology management to refine requirements and deliver robust solutions.
- Providing technical contribution through hands-on work and mentoring activity: contributing high-quality code, data-modelling, performing code reviews, guiding implementation teams and guiding engineering best practices.
- Driving efficiency across architecture activities through adoption of AI solutions.
Your Skills And Experience
- Experience and track record as a Solution Architect and/or Development Lead in complex, regulated enterprise environments.
- Familiarity with Cloud Technologies, containerization using Docker & Kubernetes and security (e.g., OAuth) and the ability to build up knowledge related to new technology/solutions in an effective and timely manner.
- Experience with database technologies (Oracle, Postgres or SQL Server) and data modelling.
- Ability to design and communicate architecture concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to spot areas of improvement and offer solutions.
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.
Technical Solution Architect employer: Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank is an excellent employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration in the heart of London. With a strong focus on employee growth, the company provides extensive training opportunities and a hybrid working model that promotes work-life balance, alongside competitive salaries and flexible benefits such as a non-contributory pension and generous holiday leave.
