Transaction Monitoring Engineer Architect

Position Overview

Job Title Transaction Monitoring Engineer Architect

Location London

Corporate Title Assistant Vice President

As a hands on technical engineer architect within the Anti-Financial Crime department, you will join the existing architecture team and will be responsible for designing, documenting, and governing the architecture across critical applications that are used to detect and investigate potential instances of criminal activity whilst supporting the application engineering teams with the implementation. 

The successful candidate will have a strong engineering background and is expected to contribute to engineering deliverables, prototyping, data-modelling and driving engineering alignment to designs through direct collaboration with development teams, ensuring code quality and actively uplifting quality standards.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect: 

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide-ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Develop and own technical designs that align with Group Architecture principles and support the department’s technology transformation
• Track and manage design updates, resolving unforeseen engineering obstacles effectively
• Shape the technology roadmap by evaluating emerging tools and established techniques, balancing cost, complexity, and performance
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across Business, Model Development, and Technology management to refine requirements and deliver robust solutions
• Provide technical contribution through hands-on work and mentoring activity: contribute high-quality code, data-modelling, perform code reviews, guide implementation teams and guide engineering best practices
• Drive efficiency across architecture activities through adoption of AI solutions

Your skills and experience

• Experience and track record as a Solution Architect and/or Development Lead in complex, regulated enterprise environments
• Familiarity with Cloud Technologies, containerization using Docker & Kubernetes and security (e.g., OAuth) and the ability to build up knowledge related to new technology / solutions in an effective and timely manner
• Experience with database technologies (Oracle, Postgres or SQL Server) and data modelling
• Ability to design and communicate architecture concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Ability to spot areas of improvement and offering solutions
• Experience in dealing with Cloud deployments in jurisdictions with data residency requirements is a plus
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs

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

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Proud Employer Trailblazer Status from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on adjustmentsconcierge@db.com to discuss. For more information about our recruitment process and available adjustments, please visit our Hiring Experience page.

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