Job Description:

Role: Enterprise Architect

Team: CTO, Group Architecture

Deutsche Bank

The leading German bank is one of the major global financial institutions and a representative bank within Europe.

Hosts its European technology centre in Romania since January 2014. The office has evolved rapidly and now accommodates a workforce close to 2,000 people.

Has been designed as an agile working environment that fosters innovation, collaboration, and growth in a modern, high-tech atmosphere.

Provides a stimulating and supportive work environment where employees can participate in the banking technology of tomorrow, grow their careers and excel in their roles.

As a cutting-edge technology company, we seek top-notch talent to join our team. You'll have the chance to work alongside the industry's brightest minds and develop game-changing solutions that will transform the banking experience.

Team

The Chief Technology Office (CTO) drives the bank's technological transformation forward. CTO is the division exercising oversight and control of our technology business. It covers key areas of employee workspace, compute, storage, data bases, networks, and data centers globally, as well as Group

Architecture.

Group Architecture (GA) division plays a pivotal role in accelerating the delivery of a bank-wide simplified target architecture that enhances agility, increases technology speed-to-market, and reduces costs. To achieve these objectives, Group Architecture employs a range of activities that includes developing target architectures and roadmaps, implementing governance frameworks, deploying strategic tools, ensuring design discipline, and establishing policies and standards.

Role Description

The Data Architecture team with Deutsche Bank’s Chief Technology Office is responsible for delivering enterprise wide data architecture standards, tools and change initiatives, executing in-line with the Bank’s data strategy.

Your role will be part of a team defining steps to advance and accelerate progress towards our target Data Architecture. This includes foundational functional aspects required to enable the target architecture and real-world functional challenges that impede progress and/or benefit realization for moving to the target architecture. The role covers analysis/investigation (current state, problem statement, stakeholder inputs), defining and documenting the approach (management friendly overviews and more detailed requirements where appropriate) and agreeing the approach with stakeholders within the Chief Technology Office and in business aligned IT Domains. It also involves hands-on collaboration with other teams on critical deliveries/pilots to prove out approaches and to aid federation with IT Domain teams to allow us to incrementally progress and achieve tangible outcomes as we do so. This work would be carried out with close guidance from more senior Architects within Group Architecture.

The focus is on functional data architecture but this has a strong linkage into more technology focused work-streams linked to Public Cloud adoption and the opportunities that brings including emerging technologies/concepts such as Data Products and Data Meshes. This is a great opportunity to get involved into helping shape how we progress our journey in this critical area.

Key Responsibilities:

Review of key data architecture topics as prioritized by senior Architects within Group Architecture:
Current state analysis via collaboration with stakeholders and investigating available assets/data
Define recommended approaches to resolve challenges to enable progress to target state data architecture
Liaise with architects in Group Architecture and in other IT domains to agree and align approaches
Estimating/quantifying the impact of architectural issues and/or benefits that can be achieved from resolving them to make the business case for change
Break down potential steps for multi-stage journeys towards the target state data architecture
Create senior management friendly documentation on the challenges, implications, and recommended approach
Detailed analysis for important foundational capabilities, pilots and PoCs as prioritised by senior Architects within Group Architecture:
Document functional requirements to feed into delivery/product backlogs for key capabilities
Work with delivery teams to break down steps allowing incremental progress and interim tangible outcomes
Analyse level of conformance of solution design to defined data principles & patterns and to reuse of shared enterprise assets where possible
Participate as an embedded Data Architecture representative in delivery sprint processes and regular stand-ups for critical topics
Work with architects and process owners in Group Architecture to enhance architectural governance and review processes for continuous driving towards target state data architecture

Key Skills & Qualifications:

Experience of 7+ years in the following areas:

Architecture, can include architectural experience linked to Application SDLC or close collaboration with Enterprise Architects
Financial Services sector with detailed knowledge on specific banking products (such as Loans or Interest Rate Derivatives) or functions (such as Finance or Market Risk)
Functional Analysis
Summarising complex architecture / design related challenges for senior management consumption
Stakeholder influencing & communications

Desired:

Able to work closely with architecture and delivery stakeholders balancing principles and business requirements/constraints
Skilled at defining outcomes and benefits to build business cases and get buy-in from stakeholders to progress delivery of complex change
Experience of breaking down complex issues into smaller items allowing incremental progress and benefits
Understanding of SDLC and technology concepts to allow effective close collaboration with engineers to resolve challenges
Structured in your approach with a mind-set built on simplicity
Detail oriented and willing to learn as we progress and uncover more information and options as we move forward
Experienced working with agile methodologies
Comfortable to work in a multicultural organization
Building on a very strong technical knowledge and experience base in the above areas candidates must be highly articulate and persuasive communicators, with strong collaboration and teamwork skills and a proven ability to manage the delivery of innovative solutions to a large, geographically diverse global enterprise.
English written and verbal skills are mandatory; German is an added benefit

Benefits:

We provide a stimulating and supportive work environment where employees can participate in the banking technology of tomorrow, grow their careers and excel in their roles.

Below you can find most of the local market’s benefits as an employment package, including but not limited to:

Home Allowance and Meal Vouchers
Premium Medical Subscription and Life/Disability Insurance
Loyalty days on long tenure and Vacation for public holidays that take place during weekend
Flexible Working
Commercial Discounts
Career opportunities and Trainings
Latest technologies and modern workplace

Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.

We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

Visit Inside Deutsche Bank to discover more about the culture of Deutsche Bank including Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Leadership, Learning, Future of Work and more besides.