Lead Engineer – Partnerdata (Mainframe, Coordination & Projects) (f/m/x)

Join our Partnerdata team at Deutsche Bank’s Technology, Data & Innovation Germany. As a Lead Engineer, you will maintain and evolve our mainframe-based infrastructure, coordinate cross-functional initiatives, and drive Projects in a highly integrated banking environment with over 500 consumers.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance critical Partnerdata functionality and processes on the mainframe, including additional involved platforms (e.g., UNIX, Java).
• Coordinate provisioning, migration, and onboarding efforts across Partnerdata-related projects, ensuring compliance and audit readiness.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure production stability and successful software releases.
• Drive automation initiatives and process optimization for bulk operations and housekeeping.
• Define and implement KPIs for software delivery and operational excellence.

Skills

• Proven ability to lead teams and coordinate complex projects across distributed environments (essential).
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with a proactive and independent working style (essential).
• Several years of professional experience in engineering roles, with a strong focus on mainframe systems, experiences in partnerdata system preferred.
• Experience with change management tools (e.g., RMS, ServiceNow, Jira) and audit-compliant workflows.
• Familiarity with DevOps/SRE practices and continuous delivery pipelines.

Well-being & Benefits  

• Emotionally and mentally balanced: We support you in dealing with life crises, maintaining stability through illness, and maintaining good mental health. Benefit from initiatives such as counseling and support in difficult life situations and a culture where you can openly speak about mental health…. 

• Physically thriving: We support you managing your physical health by taking appropriate preventive measures and providing a workplace that helps you thrive. For example, health care offerings, gyms and healthier ways of working, check up's, standing desks,... 

• Socially connected: We strongly believe in collaboration, inclusion and feeling connected to open up new perspectives and strengthen our self confidence and well being. Benefits vary from different types of paid and unpaid leave, career coaching, flexible working time models, participation in our ERGs,... 

• Financially secure: We support you to meet personal financial goals during your active career and for the future. Benefit from pension contribution plans, banking services for employees, insurance, company bicycles or public transport perks,... 

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.