Senior Designer

Job Description:

For over 150 years, our dedication to being the Global Hausbank for our clients has been driven by our people – in around 60 countries and across more than 150 nationalities.

Their deep understanding, insights, expertise, and passion help our clients navigate an increasingly complex world – be it in our Corporate Bank, our Private Bank, our Investment Bank or our Asset Management division.

Together we can make a great impact for our clients home and abroad, securing their lasting success and financial security. 

Designers are responsible for managing or performing work across multiple areas of the bank's overall IT Platform/Infrastructure including user research and UX/UI design. It also involves taking functional oversight of design delivery for specific departments. Work includes:

Responsibilities

• Business Analysis & Requirements Gathering:

- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyse business requirements, translating them into detailed Business Requirement Documents (BRDs). 

- Conduct gap analysis to identify areas of improvement and propose innovative solutions to enhance system performance and user experience. 

• Solution Design & Implementation: 

- Design and implement cutting-edge solutions for investment services and capital markets products.

- Lead the integration of third-party systems, including advanced wealth management platforms, ensuring seamless functionality and alignment with business objectives. 

- Review and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including solution architecture, design specifications, and integration workflows. 

- Ensure solutions are well designed and can be integrated successfully into the end-to-end business process flow

- Review workflows and user interfaces for quality to drive re-use and improve the user experience.

- Participate in industry forums to drive adoption of innovative techniques, tools and solutions in the Bank.

• Solution Review & Testing:

   - Conduct thorough reviews of proposed solutions to ensure they align with business needs and technical standards. 

   - Design and coordinate execution of comprehensive test plans for functional testing.

• Vendor Collaboration: 

   - Work closely with vendors to resolve technical issues, optimize system performance, and ensure timely delivery of solutions.

- Challenge vendors on technical solutions, effort estimates, delivery timelines, ensuring they meet business requirements and adhere to industry best practices. 

• Stakeholder Engagement:

   - Act as a bridge between technical teams and business stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment on project goals. 

   - Provide regular updates to relevant stakeholders on delivery progress, risks, and mitigation strategies.

Skills

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT, Mathematics, or a related field.  MBA is a plus.

• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience in solution design, with financial services and IT delivery.

• Technical Expertise:

  - Proficiency in Avaloq core banking platform and its modules. 

  - Strong knowledge of investment services, capital markets, and wealth management solutions. 

  - Experience in integrating with third-party systems. 

  - Familiarity with software development lifecycle and Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies.  Certification will be considered as advantage.

• Expertise in banking products:

- Stock Exchange and OTC products, Portfolio Management, Investment Advisory, Order Execution, - Treasury and Cash Management, Settlements, Online banking, Payment services.

• Understanding of regulatory frameworks and risk management concepts: MIFID2, Data Protection, GDPR, Market Transparency & Standardization, Operational Risk, Anti-Money Laundering, Trade and Transaction monitoring, KYC.

This is an excellent opportunity for personal and professional development within a collaborative team in an international environment and interacting with highly motivated colleagues across the globe.

The successful candidate will be asked to provide a recent criminal record.

Well-being & Benefits

• Emotionally and mentally balanced:
  We support you in maintaining good mental health. Benefit from initiatives such as training events, counseling and support in difficult life situations and a culture where you can openly speak about mental health. Reach out to our Mental Health First Aiders.

• Physically thriving:
  We support you managing your physical health by taking appropriate preventive measures and providing a workplace that helps you thrive. We offer an in-house gym, standing desks, medical check-ups and promote healthier ways of working.

• Socially connected:
  We strongly believe in collaboration, inclusion and feeling connected to open up new perspectives and strengthen our self-confidence and well-being. Our local benefits vary from different types of leave, sports groups to engage with colleagues while keeping physically active and a hybrid working model.

• Financially secure:
  We support you to meet personal financial goals during your active career and for the future.
  Thus, we offer two pension contribution plans, a worldwide accident insurance, private insurance discounts, special conditions as a Deutsche Bank employee with several retail banks in Luxembourg, public transportation reimbursement, lunch voucher scheme, company car participation, as well as a Corporate Benefits platform

Our cultural aspiration is to be ‘empowered to excel together every day’. This means we strive for the highest standards of integrity, are accountable while learning from mistakes, promote speaking up and constructively challenge each other to further innovation. Seeking out conversations, proactively embracing change, new facts and different perspectives helps our talented and diverse teams to work in partnership across the globe and drive business results.

We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, be liefs and generations and are committed to providing a positive and fair working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

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.