Lead Technology Manager

Position Overview

Job Title Trading Technology Platform Lead

Location London

Corporate Title Director

Fixed Income and Currencies (FIC) Technology delivers solutions for the front-office trading across key asset classes. We build solutions for our Sales and Trading community to help communicate, price, execute and risk manage trading products with Deutsche Bank’s clients.

As Lead Technology Manager, you will be responsible for shaping and driving the technology strategy of this area aligning with the Bank wide strategy, setting technology plans, standards, architecture, financials, risk management as well as managing the team and deliveries to multiple functions.

This role has two key products to manage. Firstly, a real-time platform for “ready to trade”, and secondly a front(sales)-to-back(ops) platform for viewing and workflow of our trade lifecycle.

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 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

• Agree and structure the book of work for the two products within this role

• Hands-on build out and leadership of engineering teams, ensuring our platforms meet all delivery, performance, security and audit requirements

• Build working relationships with stakeholders globally including: business, technology, ops, control functions

• Define and drive towards a target technology architecture for the products, using cloud-first Google Cloud Platform (GCP) where we can

• Maintain and improve stability in production environment through engineering, working closely with support teams

• Working in close partnership with other technology teams to maximise the shared technology product roadmap, drive synergies, simplification, and efficiencies

Your skills and experience

• A strong, detailed, technology leadership background in a Front Office Technology environment

• Previous relevant experience in building large scale and complicated systems in a front-office environment

• Good understanding of the financial products and their pricing methodologies. Strong architecture and design skills

• Business Advisory and influencing capabilities that support decision making in strategy and direction

• Experience in multiple programming languages, cloud technologies and User Information technologies

• Experience building technical and product focused direction, teams

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career

• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities

• 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 (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. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025 for six 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.

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 how we can best support you. Alternatively, you can share your phone number, and a member of the team will be happy to call you to talk through your specific requirements.

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.