Lead Engineer (f/m/x) – Client Access
Core
Design and operate high-volume payment and messaging platforms connecting the Bank with Central Banks, clearing houses, and financial institutions, ensuring production supportability is built into services before go-live.
Role type
Senior individual-contributor Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Builds
Channel and Market Integration (CMI) cloud-based platform for payment orchestration and external connectivity, alongside vendor products supporting SWIFT and EBICS
Domain
Financial services / High-volume payment and messaging systems (via careerplan.io/jobs/R0452282-1-lead-engineer-fmx-client-access-at-db)
Required skills
Java or Kotlin development, high-volume payment/messaging platform support, observability and monitoring (Splunk, Kibana, Geneos), event-driven architectures (Kafka, MQ), incident management and root-cause analysis, CI/CD, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Kubernetes, Docker
Preferred skills
AI tools for productivity enhancement, operational readiness, recovery automation, runbook development
Technologies
Splunk, Kibana, Geneos, Kafka, MQ, Spring Boot, Oracle, Kubernetes, Docker
Responsibilities
Partner with Engineering, QA, and Operations from design through go-live; Define monitoring, dashboards, and actionable alerting; Design supportability for high-volume, event-driven services; Translate expected failure modes into alerts, runbooks, and recovery procedures; Improve testing through unit, component, contract, integration, and performance tests; Lead technical incident and problem analysis; Contribute hands-on to implementation, architecture, design, and code reviews
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC