Job Title: Principal Engineer - Data Services
Location: Bangalore, India
Corporate Title: VP
Role Description
DWS’s data infrastructure team provides the secure, scalable, and trusted foundation for storing, processing, and distributing critical enterprise data across the organization. As Principal Engineer for Data Services, you will shape the technical strategy for a portfolio of data services, own key architecture decisions, raise engineering standards across teams, and contribute directly to the design and delivery. This role is hands-on and requires a high degree of autonomy and willingness to take ownership.
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
- Own the end-to-end architecture and technical design of core data services, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and operational excellence
- Translate product vision, regulatory needs, and enterprise demand into pragmatic technical designs, engineering roadmaps, and executable delivery plans
- Set and continuously improve engineering standards, testing practices, quality controls, and development patterns across multiple teams
- Design and develop infrastructure components using Terraform, infrastructure-as-code practices, and automation tooling to support reliable platform delivery
- Partner with architects, security engineers, control functions, the Chief Data Office, and other stakeholders to strengthen compliance, security posture, and platform reliability
- Mentor engineers, review critical design and code decisions, and act as a senior technical reference point for complex data platform challenges
Your skills and experience
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture. Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field is a plus
- Very strong expertise in Java application development, including micro-services,
- Strong experience with operational databases (e.g. Postgres, Oracle)
- Experience in operating production applications on cloud and on premise
- Proficiency in Object Oriented Programming, and design patterns, using Java
- Some understanding of cloud-based data platforms such as GCP BigQuery, Snowflake or Databricks is a plus
- Experience with development utilizing software development life cycle (SDLC) tools including Git, JIRA, Artifactory, Jenkins/TeamCity, OpenShift
- Strong problem-solving skills, strategic thinking and attention to detail
- Fluent in English (written and spoken)
- Nice to have Skill – Knowledge/Experience in React.
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.htm
We at DWS are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, one that embraces dialogue and diverse views, and treats everyone fairly to drive a high-performance culture. The value we create for our clients and investors is based on our ability to bring together various perspectives from all over the world and from different backgrounds. It is our experience that teams perform better and deliver improved outcomes when they are able to incorporate a wide range of perspectives. We call this #ConnectingTheDots.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture
- Very strong expertise in Java application development, including micro-services
- Strong experience with operational databases (e.g. Postgres, Oracle)
- Experience operating production applications on cloud and on premise
- Proficiency in Object Oriented Programming and design patterns using Java
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and Terraform
- Experience with SDLC tools including Git, JIRA, Artifactory, Jenkins/TeamCity, OpenShift
- Strong problem-solving skills, strategic thinking, and attention to detail
- Fluent in English (written and spoken)
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
- Some understanding of cloud-based data platforms such as GCP BigQuery, Snowflake or Databricks
- Knowledge/Experience in React
What We Do
DWS Group (DWS) with EUR 933bn of assets under management (as of 30 June 2024) aspires to be one of the world's leading asset managers. Building on more than 60 years of experience, it has a reputation for excellence in Germany, Europe, the Americas and Asia. DWS is recognized by clients globally as a trusted source for integrated investment solutions, stability and innovation across a full spectrum of investment disciplines. We offer individuals and institutions access to our strong investment capabilities across all major liquid and illiquid asset classes as well as solutions aligned to growth trends. Our diverse expertise in Active, Passive and Alternatives asset management – as well as our deep environmental, social and governance focus – complement each other when creating targeted solutions for our clients. Our expertise and on-the-ground knowledge of our economists, research analysts and investment professionals are brought together in one consistent global CIO View, giving strategic guidance to our investment approach. DWS wants to innovate and shape the future of investing. We understand that, both as a corporate as well as a trusted advisor to our clients, we have a crucial role in helping to navigate the transition to a more sustainable future. With approximately 4,500 employees in offices all over the world, we are local while being one global team. We are committed to acting on behalf of our clients and investing with their best interests at heart so that they can reach their financial goals, no matter what the future holds. With our entrepreneurial, collaborative spirit, we work every day to deliver outstanding investment results, in both good and challenging times to build the best foundation for our clients’ financial future.
