# Director (d/m/w) Principal Architect

**Company**: Deutsche Bank
**Location**: Berlin
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Deutsche Bank Technology in Berlin is part of a global network of technology specialists supporting the Bank's trading businesses.

As Director (d/m/w) Principal Architect, you will shape the architecture and technical direction of high-performance backend systems in a latency-sensitive electronic trading environment.

Your key responsibilities:

- Shape the architecture and technical direction of end-to-end electronic trading platforms, translating trading and business requirements into reliable, low-latency solutions.

- Maintain a hands-on engineering role through design reviews, prototyping, coding and performance investigations.

- Provide technical guidance on system design, Core Java, concurrency, resilience and performance across globally distributed engineering teams.

- Identify and address architectural, scalability, performance and operational risks in complex backend systems.

- Evaluate relevant technologies and AI-assisted engineering practices for their application within the engineering environment.

- Collaborate closely with business, architecture, QA and DevOps stakeholders to support effective technical decisions and front-to-back delivery.

Your skills and experiences:

- Strong hands-on Core Java engineering expertise and proven ability to build production-grade backend systems.

- Demonstrated experience delivering complex, distributed systems from architecture and design through to production.

- Deep expertise in low-latency, high-throughput and fault-tolerant architectures, including concurrency, JVM performance, networking and profiling.

- Sound architectural judgement combined with practical problem-solving skills for complex technical challenges.

- Ability to influence technical direction and engineering decisions effectively across teams without relying on direct people-management responsibility.

- Excellent communication skills and fluency in English for effective collaboration within globally distributed teams.

- Proven ability to use AI tools effectively to increase productivity, optimize processes and solve business problems, applying sound judgement and ensuring responsible handling of data and AI-generated results.

What we offer:

- Emotionally and mentally balanced: consultation in difficult life situations as well as mental health awareness trainings.

- Physically thriving: health check-ups; vaccination drives as well as advice on healthy living and nutrition.

- Socially connected: 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: pension plans, banking services, company bicycle or “Deutschlandticket”.

## Skills

### Required
- Core Java
- low-latency architectures
- high-throughput architectures
- fault-tolerant architectures
- concurrency
- JVM performance
- networking
- profiling
- AI-assisted engineering practices

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