Associate Engineer

Transformation - Associate

Job Title: Transformation - Associate

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:

• Developing 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 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 4+ years with hands-on coding in Java & frontend development.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, and
• 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:

We at DWS are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, one that embraces dialogue and diverse views, and treats everyone fairly to drive a high-performance culture. The value we create for our clients and investors is based on our ability to bring together various perspectives from all over the world and from different backgrounds. It is our experience that teams perform better and deliver improved outcomes when they are able to incorporate a wide range of perspectives. We call this #ConnectingTheDots.