Position Overview

Division: RFT Technology
Hiring Manager: Taniem Choudhury
Overview
RFT Technology team believes in putting our people and our customers at the center of what we do. We believe in delivering value to our bank by solving the problems we face and creating new opportunities with different perspectives, changing the status quo across our team, business, bank and industry.
To do this, we work to achieve excellence, through our engagement with our users and teams, improving our way of working and continuously learning, driving to mastery of our art to solve our businesses most important problems whilst delivering awesome products.
We are close to 1500 + persons global, diverse and award-winning team, partnering with our business to deliver them a platform of execution for account close, risk close and financial planning processes for the Deutsche Bank Group.
Are you the team member we have been waiting for The team member who
• Focuses on business outcomes, starting with the goal in mind ('works from the right') with the ability to create strong relationships between the business and teams
• Is passionate about using technology to realize the future of the business
• Innovates for the business, bringing new ideas and technologies
• Continuously improves through life-long learning
• Is passionate about improving our products, our ways of working, each other and ourselves through continuous improvements
• Is seen and see themselves as a pleasure to work with
• Has strong ideas & vision, weakly held with the ability to be flexible
• Values bias for action using safe-to-fail experiments
• Believes in collaboration above all
• Values the whole / team rather than the part
• Believes in and trusts the combined power of teams and team of teams
• Creates trust in all directions

Key Responsibilities
• Lead the Infrastructure Function for RFT which includes open systems, SAP and the Oracle estate across different data centers
• Engage and work with RFT management to define the overall CTO strategy for RFT
• Responsible for infrastructure roadmaps for RFT applications including migration to public cloud
• Strengthen and run existing forums to drive Infrastructure optimization strategies for RFT
• Ensure compliance with central Technology Roadmaps for CIO Finance
• Engage with central CTO teams to provide input into enterprise wide strategies across infrastructure
• Architect the road map for migration of applications to Google Cloud Platform under different models viz. native GCP architecture, hybrid architecture including co-location of infrastructure at GCP, design and support the 'heritage' model where GCP us used as IAAS
• Define and own Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) for any infrastructure / PAAS work on the cloud and work with the central teams such as Cloud Design Authorities for their approval
• Work with application teams and legal teams to devise strategies for managing geographic constraints on data and services
• Understands the FinOps model for infrastructure (on premise as well as GCP) and help drive down the cost of infrastructure
• Work with CIO Teams to define infrastructure budgets for RFT
• Work with Finance and other central teams, along with application teams to ensure correct sizing of licenses