Vice President – Engineering Lead

Job Title: Vice President – Engineering Lead 

Location: Bangalore, India

Role Description

About DWS:

• Today, markets face a whole new set of pressures – but also a whole lot of opportunity too. Opportunity to innovate differently. Opportunity to invest responsibly. And opportunity to make change.
• Join us at DWS, and you can be part of an industry-leading firm with a global presence. You can lead ambitious opportunities and shape the future of investing. You can support our clients, local communities, and the environment.

Team / division overview

• The Chief Operating Office (COO) , CTO DWS Tech Division is a key enabler for DWS and is integral to the future success of the company by delivering world-class services across a set of key functions. It covers essential Technology and Operations capabilities, and aims to deliver a platform which is efficient, scalable, resilient and agile.

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 Engineer is responsible for managing or performing work across multiple areas of the bank's overall IT Platform/Infrastructure including analysis, development, and administration. It may also involve taking functional oversight of engineering delivery for specific departments.

Work includes:

• Planning and developing entire engineering solutions to accomplish business goals     
• Building reliability and resiliency into solutions with appropriate testing and reviewing throughout the delivery lifecycle   
• Ensuring maintainability and reusability of engineering solutions. 
• Ensuring solutions are well architected and can be integrated successfully into the end-to-end business process flow.  
• Reviewing engineering plans and quality to drive re-use and improve engineering capability  
•  Participating in industry forums to drive adoption of innovative technologies, tools, and solutions in the Bank.  
• Architect, develop, and maintain UI components using React.js and JavaScript. 
• Define and enforce best practices for UI development, coding standards and performance optimization. 
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers, product managers and backend developers to deliver seamless responsive interfaces. 
• Write clean, maintainable and well-documented code. 
• Drive code reviews, unit testing and integration testing processes. 
• Contribute to architecture and design decisions for scalable frontend systems and own performance, accessibility and cross browser compatibility. 

Your skills and experience

Must Have: 

• Overall experience of 10+ years with hands-on coding in Java & frontend development. 
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, node.js and React.js 
• Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS and responsive design. 

Desirable skills that will help you excel   

• Prior experience working in Agile/scum environment. 
• Proficient in any UI framework/library ( REACT/ANGULAR/VUE/NEXT ) 
• Well versed with commonly used Data Structures and Algorithms 
• Understanding of REST based Architecture and concepts 
• Understanding of Design Patterns and Principles. 
• Understanding of cross-browser, mobile first development 
• Unit Testing - writing unit/e2e tests. 
• Exposure to cloud platforms is a plus (preferably GCP). 
• Strong problem solving and communications skills. 
• Working knowledge of GIT, Jenkins, CICD, Gradle, DevOps and SRE techniques 

Educational Qualifications  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant technology & science 
• Technology certifications from any industry leading cloud providers 

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