Lead Python Engineer - Transaction Monitoring Analytics

Position Overview

Job Title Lead Python Engineer - Transaction Monitoring Analytics

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

Group Strategic Analytics (GSA) is part of Group Chief Operation Office (COO) which acts as the bridge between the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions to help deliver the efficiency, control, and transformation goals of the Bank.

The Trading and Client Controls (TaCC) team sits within Deutsche Bank's GSA. With group-wide responsibility for model development, GSA takes a cross-business and cross-functional approach to solving complex quantitative encounters. The TaCC team has a global remit, across all products, businesses and regions in the Investment and Corporate Banks, to develop bespoke anomaly detection models. Our subject matter and datasets are complex, continually evolving and varied, so we are recruiting people who are highly motivated and highly skilled.

You will be responsible for driving the development of controls and reports to help identify fraud. As part of this, you will take ownership of a problem set, manage stakeholders, and drive growth of a high-quality code base.

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 Hybrid Working 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 a platform and sophisticated analytics to implement the aims of the Programme – to proactively monitor, identify, and prevent trading fraud
• Full-stack development skills providing the ability to take a data product from inception through to production), following rigorous coding, testing, and documentation best practice
• Develop and evolve platform reporting statistics/data to monitor ongoing model success
• Engage key stakeholders to understand needs and requirements

Your skills and experience

• Experience and understanding across the full-stack development environment as a Lead Engineer
• Educated to Bachelor's degree level or equivalent qualification/relevant work experience
• Excellent programming skills, predominantly across the Python/Anaconda suite (PySpark, Pandas, Numpy), strong understanding of SQL
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with ability to manage multiple stakeholders (beneficial)
• Nice to have experience in Tableau / Web Development

How we’ll support you

• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
• 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
• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (for example. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

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 have been named a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality for three consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Silver Award from Stonewall for two years running and named in their Top 100 Employers for 2023 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.

Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.

Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.
We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.
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