Enterprise Architect

Job Description:Deutsche Bank Romania

DB Global Technology is Deutsche Bank’s technology centre in Central and Eastern Europe. Opened in January 2014, the Bucharest office is constantly expanding and is now hosting over 1k employees.

Designed as an agile working environment, custom made to encourage innovation, collaboration, and productivity in a modern high-tech atmosphere.

CTO – Chief Technology Office

Technology Office is the division exercising oversight and control of our technology business. It covers key areas of compute, storage, data bases, networks, and data centres globally, as well as Group Architecture. Our area is pivotal in accelerating the delivery of a bank-wide simplified target architecture - increasing agility and technology speed-to-market while lowering costs. Group Architecture achieves this through a range of activities, including the delivery of target architectures and roadmaps, governance frameworks, strategic tools, design discipline, policies and standards, and rationalising our IT landscape

Role Description

The Data Architecture team with Group Architecture 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 and in meeting new regulatory requirements.  This includes foundational aspects required to enable the target architecture and real-world functional challenges that impede progress and/or benefit realisation 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 senior Architects within Group Architecture.

Initial areas of focus revolve around our Public Cloud adoption, in particular approaches to meet regulatory restrictions around data sovereignty in an efficient manner, enabling appropriate hybrid solutions and ongoing compliance to regulations.  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 prioritised by the head of Data 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 the head of Data 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

·Participation 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)
• Summarising complex architecture / design related challenges for senior management consumption
• Stakeholder influencing & communications
• Functional Analysis or Solution Design

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

Goodies:

The CTO division is actively driving the IT strategy of the Bank always transitioning to modern, currently cloud-based solutions, always introducing innovation in the way we work. The Bucharest excellence center is continuously expanding by building new teams and defining new projects.

You can find most of the local market’s benefits as an employment package, including but not limited to: meal vouchers, flexible working, commercial discounts, gym, training programs, etc.

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.