Job Title: Lead Engineer
Corporate Title: Vice President
Location: Pune, India
Role Description
Lead design and delivery of cloud-native microservices and data pipelines on GCP. You’ll build scalable, reliable Java services and streaming/batch dataflows, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers to deliver high-throughput data solutions. Candidate should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility. Familiarity with Agile methodologies, it will be an added advantage.
What we’ll offer you
As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy,
Best in class leave policy.
Gender neutral parental leaves
100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
Accident and Term life Insurance
Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above
Your key responsibilities
Design & Build: Architect and implement production-grade Java microservices following clean architecture and best practices.
Data Pipelines: Build, operate, and optimize streaming and batch pipelines on GCP Dataflow (Apache Beam) and related services.
Cloud Platform: Own services deployed to GCP (Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, IAM, VPC).
Databases: Design, implement and optimize relational schemas and access patterns for transactional and analytical workloads.
Scalability & Reliability: Design for performance, fault-tolerance, and cost efficiency at scale.
Collaboration & Leadership: Partner with product, data engineering and platform teams; review code and mentor peers; drive technical decisions.
Technical Debt & Quality: Drive testing strategy (unit/integration/end-to-end), static analysis and continuous improvement.
Your skills and experience
15+ years professional software engineering experience, with deep Java expertise and a track record of technical leadership in large systems.
Proven experience designing and operating microservices architectures at scale.
GCP: Hands-on experience with GCP services (Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Compute/GKE).
Data Engineering: Experience building data pipelines (streaming and batch) and handling large-volume data.
Relational Databases: Practical experience with PostgreSQL and Oracle—schema design, indexing, query optimization, performance tuning, backup/replication strategies, and writing stored procedures (PL/pgSQL / PL/SQL).
System Design: Strong knowledge of distributed systems, concurrency, and performance tuning.
DevOps: Familiar with Docker, Kubernetes (GKE), CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
Testing & QA: Strong testing discipline, TDD/BDD experience, and automated test frameworks.
Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to mentor and influence cross-functional teams.
Organizational skills
An analytical mind
Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field
Good to have:
Apache Beam: Practical experience authoring Beam pipelines (Java) and running them on Dataflow.
Spark: Experience with Apache Spark for batch/stream processing.
Streaming Concepts: Familiarity with event-driven design, exactly-once semantics, windowing, watermarks.
DB Migration/Tooling: Experience migrating or integrating between Oracle and PostgreSQL, familiarity with tools like pg_dump/pg_restore, ora2pg, logical replication, or heterogeneous replication setups.
Datastores: Experience with Bigtable, Spanner, Redis or other NoSQL stores.
Security & Compliance: Knowledge of cloud security patterns, data governance, and GDPR/PII considerations.
Performance Profiling: Experience with JVM tuning, GC, and profiling tools.
Experience
15+ years of prior working experience in a global banking / insurance/financial organization.
Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.
How we’ll support you
Training and development to help you excel in your career.
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.
About us and our teams
Please visit our company website for further information:
https://www.db.com/company/company.html
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.
Skills Required
- 15+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 15+ years of experience in a global banking, insurance, or financial organization
- Deep Java expertise and technical leadership experience with large-scale systems
- Experience designing and operating microservices architectures at scale
- Hands-on experience with GCP services including Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Compute, or GKE
- Experience building streaming and batch data pipelines and handling large-volume data
- Practical experience with PostgreSQL and Oracle, including schema design, indexing, query optimization, performance tuning, backup, replication, and stored procedures
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, concurrency, and performance tuning
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code
- Strong testing discipline, TDD/BDD experience, and automated test framework experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to mentor and influence cross-functional teams
- Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or a relevant field
- Practical Apache Beam experience using Java and Dataflow
- Apache Spark experience for batch or stream processing
- Familiarity with event-driven design, exactly-once semantics, windowing, and watermarks
- Experience migrating or integrating Oracle and PostgreSQL databases
- Experience with Bigtable, Spanner, Redis, or other NoSQL stores
- Knowledge of cloud security patterns, data governance, and GDPR/PII considerations
- Experience with JVM tuning, garbage collection, and profiling tools
- Ability to use AI tools productively while applying responsible and ethical judgment
Deutsche Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Deutsche Bank and has not been reviewed or approved by Deutsche Bank.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is positioned as comprehensive, spanning multiple medical plan options along with dental, vision, prescription coverage, life insurance, and disability protection.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is described as generous, including annual leave, sick leave, public holidays, wellbeing leave, volunteering leave in some regions, and expanded bereavement leave in certain locations.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is presented as a matched savings plan (401(k)), reinforcing longer-term financial security as part of the rewards package.
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