Strats Developer

Job Description:

Job Title Strats Developer

Location London

Corporate Title Associate

Group Strategic Analytics is part of Group Chief Operation Office (COO) which acts as the bridge between the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions to help deliver the efficiency, control, and transformation goals of the Bank.

You will be joining the Platform Strats team within GSA, analysing, building and delivering applications to solve quantitative and/or front-to-back problems. You will be in a cross-functional team building functionality on the strategic cross-business Risk and Profit & Loss (P&L) platform and, to a lesser extent, supporting change on the legacy tech stack.

You will develop in Python focusing on one or more of the following, Risk and P&L generation and integration of results with platforms across the Bank through Google Cloud and other technologies, automated controls functionality (ensuring the system has a full and complete set of valuation data for use in trading and regulatory processes) and/or tools to improve operational processes for Finance, Model Risk Management (MRM), Operations and Strats.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a Hybrid Working 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

• Working in a cross-functional agile team focused on delivering robust, reliable and performant solutions
• Analysing problems and architecting/ designing solutions to build new components and evolve existing components and functionality using Python
• Communicating with stakeholders (Strats Team, Trading, MRM, Finance) to understand their requirements
• Maintaining the system in production including through joining the support rota
• Participating in product delivery process alignment and improvement

Your skills and experience

• Educated to University degree level or equivalent qualification/work experience, in an appropriate computer science or engineering/ scientific subject
• Strong experience of server-side development in Python, including multi-threading
• Experienced developing front-office banking applications
• Understanding of derivatives products, risk and P&L and market data
• Relevant technologies: Python, Google Cloud (GCP), PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database, Kafka, Redis, C++
• Knowledge of the following: PyCharm, Git, BitBucket, JIRA, Confluence, Grafana, Oracle SQL Developer, Microsoft Visual Studio (MSVS) 2019

How we’ll support you

• 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
• 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 (for example, screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 for five consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.

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.