Messaging Engineer

Job Title Messaging Engineer

Location London

Corporate Title Assistant Vice President

Are you excited about building high-performance, resilient, and modern communication pathways that power global financial systems? We are looking for a passionate Messaging Engineer to join our dynamic Messaging Engineering Team.

Our mission is to design, build, and offer simple, automated, and highly secure self-service messaging platforms that enable application teams across the bank to connect and share data seamlessly. In this role, you will help bridge the gap between traditional enterprise messaging and modern public cloud technologies. You will work closely with a collaborative team to deploy robust hybrid solutions using both on-premise infrastructure and modern public cloud ecosystems.

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 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

• Collaborate with architects, product managers, and engineering peers to build, configure, and maintain secure, enterprise-grade messaging solutions
• Develop automated infrastructure-as-code pipelines to deploy messaging services across both on-premises environments and public cloud platforms
• Ensure the operational stability, security, and performance of our messaging backbones, actively participating in capacity planning and system optimizations
• Cooperate with internal application teams to assist them in adopting standard messaging patterns, ensuring compliance with security and architectural guidelines
• Work closely with various vendors and internal teams, to ensure compliance with technology roadmap and security requirements on application, infrastructure, and operating system level.

Your skills and experience

• Strong hands-on experience with IBM MQ, including installation, configuration, object creation, and setting up robust channel security configurations
• Solid understanding of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, specifically focusing on networking, storage, and Pub/Sub (Publish/Subscribe) systems, managed via Terraform
• Good development experience in an Object-Oriented programming language, specifically utilizing Java and the Spring / Spring Boot frameworks for backend services
• Practical experience writing Ansible playbooks to automate configuration management and deployments
• Familiarity with Solace appliance configuration, Virtual Private Network (VPN) setups, and security protocols
• Basic exposure to Artificial Intelligence concepts, such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) server configuration, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), or Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career

• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities

• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

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 be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on [email protected] to discuss.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.