Lead Platform Engineer (f/m/x) – SWIFT

Deutsche Bank Technology in Berlin

DB Technology is a global team of tech specialists, spread across multiple trading hubs and tech centres. We have a strong focus on promoting technical excellence – our engineers work at the forefront of financial services innovation using cutting-edge technologies.

Our Berlin location is our most recent addition to our global network of tech centres and growing strongly. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and to creating excellent opportunities for talented engineers and technologists. Our tech teams and business units use agile ways of working to create #GlobalHausbank solutions from our home market.

At Deutsche Bank, we are at the forefront of global finance, connecting markets and facilitating the flow of capital worldwide. Our technology platforms are the backbone of our operations, and none are more critical than our global payments infrastructure. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Platform Engineer (f/m/x) to take ownership of our vital SWIFT Alliance Gateway (SAG) platform, ensuring its stability, security, and performance.

This is a unique opportunity to be the technical authority for a business-critical system, represent the bank in key industry forums, and shape the future of our payment processing capabilities.

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Your key responsibilities

• Ownership of SWIFT Alliance Gateway (SAG), SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA) and SWIFTNet Link (SNL) platforms, ensuring maximum availability, performance, and security.
• System Integration: Design, implement, and manage integrations between the SWIFT platform and other internal processing systems, middleware, and applications.
• Oversee all aspects of the platform lifecycle, including capacity planning, version upgrades, patching, and disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Lead incident and problem management efforts, providing deep technical analysis to rapidly resolve complex issues across the application, database, and operating system layers.
• Represent Deutsche Bank in German and European technical forums and SWIFT advisory groups, contributing to industry standards and bringing back key insights to inform our strategy.
• Work closely with operations, infrastructure, network, and cybersecurity teams to ensure cohesive and secure end-to-end solutions.

Your skills and experiences

• Extensive, hands-on experience administering and supporting the SWIFT Alliance Gateway (SAG), SAA and SWIFTNet Link (SNL) platforms in a large-scale financial institution.
• Expert-level knowledge of Linux/UNIX including system administration, performance tuning, and shell scripting.
• Strong proficiency with Oracle databases, including administration, SQL, performance analysis, and troubleshooting.
• Proven experience in a high-availability, 24/7 production environment where stability is paramount.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with full professional fluency in both German and English is essential for representing the bank in external forums.
• Experience with high-load systems and performance testing and tuning.
• Knowledge of messaging middleware (e.g., IBM MQ, Kafka) and network protocols (TCP/IP, SSL/TLS).
• Familiarity with modern monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk).
• Understanding of public key infrastructure (PKI), Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), and cryptographic principles.
• Experience working within containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.

What we offer

We provide you with a comprehensive portfolio of benefits and offerings to support both, your private and professional needs.

• Emotionally and mentally balanced
  A positive mind helps us master the challenges of everyday life – both professionally and privately. We offer consultation in difficult life situations as well as mental health awareness trainings.

• Physically thriving
  We support you in staying physically fit through an offering to maintain personal health and a professional environment. You can benefit from health check-ups; vaccination drives as well as advice on healthy living and nutrition.

• Socially connected
  Networking opens up new perspectives, helps us thrive professionally and personally as well as strengthens our self-confidence and well-being. You can benefit from PME family service, FitnessCenter Job, flexible working (e.g parttime, hybrid working, job tandem) as well as an extensive culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.

• Financially secure
  We provide you with financial security not only during your active career but also for the future. You can benefit from offerings such as pension plans, banking services, company bicycle or "Deutschlandticket”.

Since our offerings slightly vary across locations, please contact your recruiter with specific questions.

This job is available in full and parttime.

In case of any recruitment related questions, please get in touch with Luisa Moderzinski.

Contact Luisa Moderzinski: +49 151 565 16413

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