Job Title: Senior Engineer
Location: Pune, India
Corporate Title: VP
Role Description
- The Senior Engineer will provide technical leadership for the modernisation of legacy SAS-based data solutions into scalable, maintainable Python platforms. The role combines hands-on engineering with architectural ownership, establishing reusable frameworks and robust delivery standards across enterprise data workloads.
Core capabilities
- Python engineering: Advanced Python development, object-oriented design and clean-code practices, with experience creating modular, reusable libraries and frameworks.
- Workflow orchestration: Deep expertise designing, deploying and maintaining scalable Apache Airflow DAGs, custom operators and scheduling patterns.
- Cloud-native platforms: Strong experience deploying and scaling containerised applications on Google Kubernetes Engine, including Kubernetes configuration and resource management.
- Framework architecture: Proven ability to design, version and maintain shared engineering frameworks, data pipelines and integration components.
- Operational excellence: Experience with observability, profiling, performance tuning, automated testing, CI/CD, GitOps and Docker.
- Desirable expertise
- Hands-on experience with Python Polars for high-performance, memory-efficient data processing.
- Knowledge of Apache Iceberg, including transaction management, schema evolution and file-layout optimisation.
- Experience troubleshooting complex orchestration failures and supporting high-throughput, highly available integrations across shared platforms such as GPFS.
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
- Lead the design, development and maintenance of enterprise-grade Python frameworks, reusable libraries and data pipelines that support the migration from SAS to modern Python-based solutions.
- Define engineering standards and provide technical leadership for clean code, object-oriented design, automated testing, versioning and documentation.
- Design, deploy and operate scalable Apache Airflow workflows, including DAGs, custom operators, scheduling patterns, dependency management and failure recovery.
- Deploy and scale containerised workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine, maintaining Kubernetes configurations, resource controls and high-availability services.
- Drive adoption of high-performance data processing and lakehouse technologies, including Python Polars and Apache Iceberg, with effective schema evolution and file-layout optimisation.
Your skills and experience
- Extensive technology-engineering experience, ideally gained within complex, highly regulated enterprise environments.
- Expert-level Python development skills, including object-oriented design, reusable frameworks, automated testing and clean-code practices.
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Airflow, Google Kubernetes Engine, relational and distributed databases, GitHub, CI/CD, GitOps and Docker.
- Experience modernising legacy SAS workloads and designing scalable data-processing solutions; knowledge of Python Polars and Apache Iceberg is advantageous.
- Proven people-leadership experience, including managing, coaching and developing a sizeable engineering team and building an inclusive, high-performing culture.
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, make sound architectural decisions and balance strategic objectives with hands-on delivery.
- Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior partners and collaborate across engineering, data, infrastructure, risk and control functions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience improving reliability, security, performance, observability and operational resilience.
- Proven ability to use AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows and solve business problems, while applying critical judgement to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.
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
- Extensive technology-engineering experience in complex, highly regulated enterprise environments
- Expert-level Python development, including object-oriented design, reusable frameworks, automated testing, and clean-code practices
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Airflow, including DAGs, custom operators, scheduling, dependency management, and failure recovery
- Experience deploying and scaling containerized workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine and managing Kubernetes configurations and resources
- Experience with relational and distributed databases, GitHub, CI/CD, GitOps, and Docker
- Experience modernizing legacy SAS workloads and designing scalable data-processing solutions
- People-leadership experience managing, coaching, and developing a sizeable engineering team
- Ability to set technical direction, make architectural decisions, and balance strategic objectives with hands-on delivery
- Strong stakeholder-management, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Experience improving reliability, security, performance, observability, and operational resilience
- Ability to use AI tools responsibly to improve productivity, workflows, and business problem-solving
- Hands-on experience with Python Polars for high-performance data processing
- Knowledge of Apache Iceberg, including transaction management, schema evolution, and file-layout optimization
- Experience troubleshooting complex orchestration failures and supporting high-throughput integrations across platforms such as GPFS
Deutsche Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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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