Solutions Architect (CSO), Vice President

Technology underpins our entire business. Our Technology, Data and Innovation (TDI) strategy is focused on strengthening engineering expertise, introducing an agile delivery model, as well as modernizing the bank's IT infrastructure. We continue to invest and build a team of visionary tech talent, providing you with the training, freedom, and opportunity to do pioneering work. As an engineer you will develop and deliver significant components of engineering solutions to satisfy complex and diverse business goals. You will engage and partner with the business whilst working within a broader creative, collaborative, and innovative team, with a strong desire to make an impact.

The Chief Security Office ensures that all information within Deutsche Bank is adequately protected. We secure our employees, businesses, information assets and client information by responding every day to new threats.

Data protection and information security are one of the top topics and one of our growth areas for years. Atmosphere within the Chief Security Office is future-oriented and characterized by trustful cooperation of teams spread around the globe and an entrepreneurial spirit and enables our employees grow and progress.

Identity & Access Management main objective is to ensure secure access to DB assets and providing the right access for the right users at the right time. Within I&A, a new enterprise-wide Secrets Management capability will be formed to centrally manage credentials used for machine-to-machine authentication and authorization.

In your role as Solution Architect, you will be one of the first team members to join the new team at the exciting time of introducing the new secrets management capability at Deutsche Bank. You will be responsible to design and lead the implementation of the modern and innovative secrets management solution, integrate it across our hybrid environment and with a number of interface systems (e.g. Security Monitoring, Access Lifecycle Management, CI/CD tools), and support the adoption of multiple thousand applications across the bank.

Your key responsibilities

• Design and oversee the construction of complex IT systems and infrastructure, aligning technology solutions with business goals and requirements
• Collaborate with stakeholders, including business leaders, project managers, and developers, to gather requirements and translate them into architectural designs
• Define architecture principles to guide solution design, develop the target technology estate to support the organizations business strategies
• Develop the target technology estate, develop roadmaps to enable transition to the target estate, govern the transition, and provide guidance and support throughout the implementation process
• Ensure that solutions are built according to architecture principles and align to the roadmaps and our organizations target architecture

Your skills and experience

Skills youll need

• Degree in Computer Science or comparable qualification
• Deep understanding of one or more various technology domains, such as infrastructure architecture, application development, data platforms, cloud computing, and security
• Ability to communicate technical concepts in a clear and understandable manner
• Strong DevOps background and a keen eye on process automations
• Experience in designing, implementing, and operating a highly available and scalable software product (self-hosted and SaaS)

Skills that will help you excel

• Experience in information security, especially identity and access management and secrets management, is a plus
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure: GCP (GKE, CloudSQL, CloudMonitoring, etc.), Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift, Terraform, Confluent Kafka, Helm
• Good knowledge of Deployment - Automation & CI: GIT, BitBucket, Artifactory, Ansible, Maven, Ant Artifactory, Jenkins, TeamCity, uDeploy
• Experience in the development and execution of test automation scripts (Selenium, Cucumber, Karate etc.)
• Good understanding of Microservices and API Management