Description
We are seeking a Director – Principal Engineering Lead to join our team at DWS Group in Pune, India.
As a Director – Principal Engineering Lead, you will lead the engineering, design, and delivery of digital platforms and manage or perform work across multiple areas of the bank's overall IT Platform/Infrastructure, including analysis, development, and administration.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan and develop entire engineering solutions to accomplish business goals
- Build reliability and resiliency into solutions with appropriate testing and reviewing throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Ensure maintainability and reusability of engineering solutions
- Ensure solutions are well-architected and can be integrated successfully into the end-to-end business process flow
- Review engineering plans and quality to drive re-use and improve engineering capability
- Participate in industry forums to drive adoption of innovative technologies, tools, and solutions in the Bank
- Architect, develop, and maintain UI components using React.js 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
Requirements:
- 15-20 years of hands-on technical and functional experience in financial industry app development with technologies such as Java, Springboot, React JS, Kafka, Cloud, CI/CD, Dev Ops, Test Automation
- Progressive engineering hands-on development experience to lead engineering teams with enterprise-scale applications
- Strong Agile skills with running Dev Ops, IT Risk and control, SRE scrum teams and squads
Nice to Have:
- Experience with people development with respect to training, upskilling, providing right opportunities within India and global squads
- Promotes engineering culture and improves productivity amongst India FTE and vendor staff
- Dynamic resource management and close collaboration with DWS global tech and product teams
- Excellent skills and appetite to maintain risk & control hygiene
- Knowledge in Banking Payment systems will be a huge plus
Benefits:
- Hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility
- Comprehensive leave policy
- Personal and volunteer days
- 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
- Complimentary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above