eTrading Production Engineer (FIC/Trading)

Project overview

Deutsche Bank is a global banking business with strong roots in Germany and operations in over 70 countries. Their large but focused footprint gives an established position in Europe plus a significant presence in the Americas and Asia Pacific. There are four business divisions: the Corporate Bank, the Investment Bank, the Private Bank and the Asset Manager DWS. There are also a number of highly skilled functions performing key management tasks.

'Together we're sharing new perspectives and transforming what it means to be a bank.'

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

We partner with Deutsche Bank to support their contingent recruitment processes. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

On behalf of Deutsche Bank, we are looking for an eTrading Production Engineer for a 6 month contract based in the bank's London office on a hybrid working model of 3 days per week in the office and 2 from home.

Purpose of the role:

The eTrading Production Engineer will provide critical support for the electronic trading platforms, algorithmic trading systems and Real Time market infrastructure, ensuring the reliability, performance, scalability and observability of the platforms. The Engineer will work closely with traders, quantitative teams, developers and infrastructure engineers to drive automation, troubleshoot complex production issues, optimise trading workflows and enhance the resilience of low-latency electronic trading environments.

Responsibilities

The skills you'll need:

Deutsche Bank's Values

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.

This client will only accept workers operating via a PAYE engagement model.

AMS's payroll service is in partnership with Giant, we have worked with them for many years and have good processes in place to ensure you get the best service. If you are successful in your application for this role, your contract will be via Giant.

AMS, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing Company, may in the delivery of some of its services be deemed to operate as an Employment Agency or an Employment Business.

• Ensure the stability, availability, and performance of electronic trading, market connectivity, pricing and risk management platforms.
• Lead the response to production incidents with a focus on rapid recovery, root cause analysis, and preventative engineering solutions.
• Design and implement monitoring, telemetry, alerting and automation solutions to improve system visibility and reduce manual operational effort.
• Analyse and optimise system latency, throughput, capacity and resiliency across trading workflows.
• Support exchange connectivity, market data distribution, order routing, pricing engines and algorithmic trading platforms.
• Work closely with development teams to ensure systems are designed for reliability, scalability, operability and supportability from inception.
• Play an active part of the electronic trading controls governance processes. change management, incident management, problem management and operational risk standards.
• Mentor junior engineers and champion best practices in automation, software engineering, observability and operational excellence.
• Proven experience supporting electronic trading systems, low-latency platforms, or Front Office trading applications within a financial services environment.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration, SQL, and Scripting skills.
• Advanced programming experience in Python, Java, C++, or similar languages.
• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Geneos, Corvil, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, messaging technologies, and event-driven architectures used in electronic trading.
• Experience working with cloud technologies, containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices.
• Strong understanding of the trade life cycle, electronic execution workflows, market data and risk systems.
• Knowledge of FIC products, market structure, algorithmic trading, smart order routing, or low-latency trading infrastructure (highly desirable).
• Experience in electronic trading controls and governance, including assessing and clearly presenting operational risk, control effectiveness, incidents, and remediation actions to senior electronic trading governance forums.

Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 6 months
• Location: City of London, UK, GB