Group Strategic Analytics (GSA) concentrates Deutsche Bank’s quantitative and modelling expertise within a single unit. With group-wide responsibility for model development GSA takes a cross-business and cross-functional approach to solving quantitative modelling and analytics challenges and rolls out common development standards.

You will join the Market Risk Strategics (Strats) unit within GSA, which is a team comprised of people with technology, Front Office quantitative (quant) and risk methodology experience. Your immediate focus will be to deliver functionality for Fundamental Review of the Trading Book Standardised Approach (FRTB SA) capital calculations, but as the GSA is a bank-wide unit, you will have exposure to many other aspects.

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 arrangements with the opportunity to work in the office and remotely from home
• 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 

• Participate in the development of production applications implemented using Python with a particular focus on the functionality required for the delivery of cross-business risk management and capital calculations
• Deliver change, from working with colleagues/users to understand requirements, through implementation, touching multiple components, to validating final production deployment
• Collaborate with production and support colleagues to understand day-to-day processes and ensure that we produce appropriate technical solutions which will make those processes transparent and efficient
• Maintain a rigorous focus on system stability as applications are developed and continue with this focus as they are used in production

Your skills and experience

• Proven Python development experience and contribution to complex applications
• Record of day-to-day hands-on development, and a strong desire to maintain this
• Understanding of the disciplines and tools which are used to deliver robust high quality applications - source control, unit-testing, regression testing, release, and deployment controls
• Experience of maintaining and supporting production applications
• Linux and cross-platform development, preferable
• Ideally an experienced application developer (or an application developer at heart) who enjoys building systems, understands financial risk measures and likes to work in an environment surrounded by quants, quant developers as well as other application developers

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)