Director - Principal Engineer

Job Description

Director - Principal Engineer

Position Overview

Employer:DWS Group

Job Title: Director - Principal Engineering Lead

Location: Pune, India / Bangalore, India

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.

Read more about DWS and who we are

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.

Role Summary:

DWS is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead engineering initiatives in support of its core asset management platforms, REIT (real estate infrastructure funds), private equity, derivates, hedging, and illiquid/alternative funds. You will drive the modernization and automation of investment technology infrastructure, collaborating with business, operations, and data teams. This role requires deep understanding of portfolio management platforms, and advanced knowledge of cloud-native data engineering platforms like Snowflake and GCP.

Your responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the engineering , design and delivery of digital platforms and 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:

- Define and lead the software engineering vision for investment technologies across illiquid fund platforms
- Collaborate closely with investment, operations, and data teams to build scalable, automated, and data-driven solutions.
- Lead vendor and platform integration strategies (e.g. Aladdin , YARDI, Pathfinder, Snowflake etc.)
- Architect and deliver scalable, secure, and performant solutions for investment workflows-portfolio construction, trade lifecycle, order management, and performance analytics.
- Implement APIs and event-driven architecture for near-real-time data exchange across platforms.
- Optimize and automate manual processes related to trade support, pricing, valuation, NAV processing, and reconciliation.
- Leverage Snowflake for building secure and governed data products consumed across analytics, operations, and reporting.
- Deep understanding of platforms related to illiquid, including experience with data ingestion, portfolio analytics, and integration patterns.
- Experience designing solutions around REITs, fund of funds, private credit, and liquid real assets.
- Enable data democratization by implementing policy-based access control and observability.
- Ensure software quality, regulatory compliance, and risk management are embedded throughout the development lifecycle.
- Manage external and internal audits, working closely with data governance, compliance, and cybersecurity teams.
- 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.

We are looking for:

Must Have Technology Skills:

- 20+ years of hands-on technical and functional experience in financial industry within asset/investment management or capital markets.
- Strong understanding of financial instruments: alternatives, private equity, private credit, and structured products.
- Experience working with portfolio managers, risk, compliance, and operations teams.
- Familiarity with NAV, position and cash management, pricing, and reconciliation processes.
- Deep familiarity with Aladdin, YARDI, Pathfinder, Snowflake, SQL, and enterprise data management.
- App development with technologies such as: Java, Springboot, React JS, Kafka, Cloud, CI/CD, Dev Ops, Test Automation, Camunda, container based applications.
- Architected and delivered scalable, secure, and performant solutions for investment workflows-portfolio construction, trade lifecycle, order management, and performance analytics.
- APIs and event-driven architecture for near-real-time data exchange across platforms.
- Optimize and automate manual processes related to trade support, pricing, valuation, NAV processing, and reconciliation.
- Leverage Snowflake for building secure and governed data products consumed across analytics, operations, and reporting.
- Progressive engineering hands on development experience to lead engineering teams with enterprise scale applications
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native platforms (GCP), microservices, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC.
- Strong Agile skills with running Dev Ops, IT Risk and control, SRE scrum teams and squads.

Skills that will help you shine:

Team Management:

- Experience working in or integrating with other investment platforms like Charles River, SimCorp, or FactSet.
- Knowledge of data governance platforms (e.g., Collibra, Alation).
- Experience with people development with respect to training, upskilling, providing right opportunities within India and global squads.
- Promotes engineering culture and improves productivity amongst India FTE and vendor staff. Grooms and coaches the team providing proper career progression.
- Dynamic resource management and close collaboration with DWS global tech and product teams.
- Excellent skills and appetite to maintain risk & control hygiene. Streamline ITAO processes with automation.
- Will require broader promotion of people strategy activities within DWS Tech India.
- Recruits additional talent in a timely manner, grows the team in India with new skills such as Workfusion AI, Blockchain & Tokenization.

Stakeholder/Business Management:

- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills to work with India operations, EMEA/APAC business leaders.
- Knowledge in Banking Payment systems will be a huge plus.

Educational & technical qualification requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Science or an IT-related discipline (or equivalent)
- More than 10 years experience (hands-on) development in full stack solutions

What we'll offer you:

At DWS we're serious about diversity, equity and creating an inclusive culture where colleagues can be themselves and it's important to us that you enjoy coming to work - feeling healthy, happy and rewarded. At DWS you'll have access to a range of benefits including, but not limited, to the below:

- A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, comprehensive leave policy, personal and volunteer days
- 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

If you require any adjustments or changes to be made to the interview process for any reason including, or related to a disability or long-term health condition, then please contact your recruiter and let them know what assistance you may need. Examples of adjustments include providing a change to the format of the interview, or providing assistance when at the DWS office. This will not affect your application, and our recruitment team will discuss options with you

Our values define the working environment we strive to create - diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.

We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

We strive for a 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.

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