Deutsche Bank

Credit Production Lead - Director

Deutsche Bank • $170K — $308K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-10 years of experience in Technical Production Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Solid expertise in incident management, post-mortem culture, and change governance
  • Proficiency in Linux/Unix systems and programming in languages like C++, Java, or Python
  • Hands-on with observability platforms and infrastructure automation tools
  • Experience in high-availability, real-time environments, ideally in capital markets
  • Familiarity with trading environments and fixed income products is beneficial

Responsibilities

  • Drive global stability across the Credit business, aligning engineering with business objectives
  • Lead the transformation to a proactive, data-driven engineering discipline
  • Challenge and review architectures to enhance platform robustness
  • Develop a high-performing global SRE team focused on technical excellence
  • Ensure alignment of priorities with Credit desk leads and technology executives

Benefits

  • A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change and collaboration
  • Hybrid working model with flexibility for in-office or remote work
  • Generous vacation, personal, and volunteer days
  • Comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits, and retirement savings plans
  • Educational resources and programs supporting community engagement
Full Job Description
Job Description:

Job Title Credit Production Lead

Corporate Title Director

Location New York, NY

Overview

This senior leadership role will report to the Head of Fixed Income and Currencies (FIC) Production & Reliability Engineering. You will lead the Global Credit Production Engineering across FIC Technology, a globally distributed team, supporting the delivery of the strategic vision, while maintaining day-to-day accountability for day-to-day production stability. Seniority and influence will be critical in engaging executive stakeholders, setting standards, and guiding a global team efficiently.

What You'll Do
  • Drive global production stability across the Credit business, aligning engineering priorities with business objectives, regulatory expectations, and platform resilience goals
  • Embed modern Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and lead the transformation from reactive support to a proactive, data-driven, automation-first engineering discipline
  • Enhance platform robustness by challenging and reviewing architectures, contributing to tooling strategy, and role-modelling excellence in incident response, post-incident analysis, and risk reduction


How You'll Lead
  • Act as a senior partner to the Head of Credit Trading, Credit desk leads, technology executives, and adjacent business stakeholders, ensuring transparency, aligned priorities, and shared accountability for platform performance and health
  • Develop, mentor, and scale a high-performing global SRE-aligned team, fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, curiosity, and continuous improvement


Skills You'll Need
  • Expertise in incident management, post-mortem and problem-management culture, change governance, and operating within regulated financial environments
  • Advanced technical proficiency in Linux/Unix systems, Structured Query Language, and programming in C++, Java, Python, or equivalent scripting languages; strong understanding of distributed systems, low-latency architectures, APIs and event driven architecture
  • Hands-on experience with observability and telemetry platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Geneos, OpenTelemetry) and infrastructure automation (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines)
  • Familiarity with hybrid cloud, containerization, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern deployment methodologies
  • Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimize workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs


Skills That Will Help You Excel
  • Leadership experience managing SRE or Production Engineering functions in complex, high-availability, real-time environments, ideally within capital markets
  • Experience working in a Trading environment and knowledge of pricing, trade capture, market-data flows, and fixed income products; exposure to Foreign Exchange or algorithmic and electronic trading in large scale environments is advantageous


Expectations

It is the Bank's expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the New York office in accordance with the Bank's hybrid working model.

The salary range for this position in New York City is $170,000 to $308,000. Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications. Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of remuneration.

Deutsche Bank Benefits

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About Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank AG is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. The bank is operational in 58 countries with a large presence in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. As of 2021, Deutsche Bank is the 21st largest bank in the world by total assets. The bank offers financial products and services for corporate and institutional clients along with private and business clients. Its services include sales, trading, research, and origination of debt and equity; mergers and acquisitions (M&A); risk management products, such as derivatives, corporate finance, wealth management, retail banking, fund management, and transaction banking.
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