Job Description:
DB Global Technology is Deutsche Bank’s technology centre in Central and Eastern Europe. Since its set-up in 2013, Bucharest Technology Centre (BEX) has constantly proven its capacity to deliver global technology products and services, playing a dynamic role in the Bank’s technology transformation.
We have a robust, hands-on engineering culture dedicated to continuous learning, knowledge-sharing, technical skill development and networking. We are an essential part of the Bank’s technology platform and develop applications for many important business areas.
As Chapter Lead DevOps for Data & Analytics, you will be the technical and people leader for DevOps practices across the Data & Analytics domain within CIO Private Bank, Bucharest. You will shape and scale cloud‑native, compliant, and automated software delivery for data platforms, analytics services, and reporting solutions, operating across GCP, hybrid cloud, and on‑prem environments. The role combines deep technical leadership, chapter capability building, and strong governance mindset, ensuring that DevOps practices enable fast, reliable delivery while meeting regulatory, security, and data governance requirements of Deutsche Bank.
Responsibilities:
Technical & Domain Leadership
- Define and evolve the DevOps vision, standards, and reference architectures for the Data & Analytics domain.
- Drive end‑to‑end CI/CD automation for data platforms, analytics applications, and reporting services across cloud and hybrid environments.
- Establish best practices for build, test, release, and deployment.
- Ensure DevOps solutions support data lineage, traceability, auditability, and SDLC compliance.
Chapter Leadership & Capability Building
- Lead and grow the DevOps Chapter within Data & Analytics: engineers, platform specialists, and DevOps advocates embedded in delivery teams.
- Define chapter standards, learning paths, and onboarding material for DevOps engineers in the data domain.
- Act as coach and mentor, raising engineering maturity and fostering a strong DevOps culture.
- Support career progression, talent development, and succession planning within the chapter.
Platform Enablement & Automation
- Partner with platform and product teams to deliver self‑service DevOps capabilities, including: Standardized CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure‑as‑Code patterns, Environment provisioning and lifecycle automation.
- Drive adoption of cloud‑native DevOps tooling aligned with Group and PB strategies.
- Enable scalable and resilient delivery for high‑volume data processing and analytics workloads.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Ensure DevOps processes comply with: SDLC controls, Release and deployment governance, Security and vulnerability management, Data governance and regulatory expectations
- Provide clear evidence, metrics, and traceability for audits and control reviews.
- Act as a key interface between engineering, architecture, risk, and control functions.
Stakeholder Management
- Work closely with:
- Data Platform & Analytics Leads
- Architecture & Engineering Governance
- Security, Risk, and Compliance stakeholders
- Communicate DevOps strategy, progress, and risks clearly to senior leadership.
We strive for a culture 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.
Well-being & Benefits
Emotionally and mentally balanced: We support you in dealing with life crises, maintaining stability through illness, and maintaining good mental health.
- Empowering managers who value your ideas and decisions. Show your positive attitude, determination, and open-mindedness.
- A professional, passionate, and fun workplace.
- A modern office with fun and relaxing areas to boost creativity.
- Continuous learning culture with coaching and support from team experts.
- A culture where you can openly speak about mental health.
Physically thriving: We support you managing your physical health by taking appropriate preventive measures and providing a workplace that helps you thrive. For example, Private healthcare and life insurance with premium benefits for you and discounts for your loved ones, healthier ways of working and check-up's.
Socially connected: We strongly believe in collaboration, inclusion and feeling connected to open up new perspectives and strengthen our self-confidence and well-being.
- Kids@TheOffice - support for unexpected events requiring you to care for your kids during work hours.
- 24 days holiday, loyalty days, and bank holidays (including weekdays for weekend bank holidays).
- Hybrid working model with flexible working options
- Enjoy retailer discounts, cultural and CSR activities, workshops, and more.
Financially secure: We support you to meet personal financial goals during your active career and for the future.
- Competitive income, performance-based promotions, and a sense of purpose.
- Meal vouchers, bonuses for referrals
Interested in more: discover what our employees value in the Well-being & Benefits hub!
Skills:
Technical Expertise
- A Bachelor of Science or Master degree with a major in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or similar discipline.
- Strong hands‑on experience in DevOps engineering, ideally in data‑intensive or analytics environments.
- Deep technical skills in at least one core language environment (e.g. Java, Javascript (NodeJS/TypeScript), Python, Shell scripting, etc).
- Proven experience with: CI/CD pipelines and automation, Cloud platforms (preferably GCP) and hybrid architectures, Infrastructure‑as‑Code and environment automation
- Experience in automation tools and platforms such as BitBucket, TeamCity/Jenkins, Artifactory, GitHub Actions, GitLab.
- Experience with Docker containerization and clustering (Kubernetes, Docker, Dockerfiles, Helm, GCP/Azure/AWS).
- Experience with application development and multi-platform architectures.
- Strong experience in software development processes, models, lifecycles and methodologies.
Leadership & Ways of Working
- Experience leading chapters, communities of practice, or cross‑team engineering groups.
- Ability to balance enablement and governance in a regulated environment.
- Strong coaching mindset with a track record of growing senior engineers.
- Excellent communication skills, able to engage technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
