Position Overview

Trade Finance and Lending (TF&L) is one of the leading business departments in the Corporate Bank, working with clients around the globe. It has critical dependencies on IT platforms to service the Bank’s clients. The group has embarked on a front-to-back modernisation of our lending platforms, moving away from manual processes and monolithic architecture to a cloud-compliant, event-driven architecture with reusable technology stacks to achieve the next level of business processes automation.  

We are an engineering focused organisation, striving for the highest quality architecture, design, and code across our teams. Our global team of tech specialists is spread across multiple hubs and tech centres with strong collaboration. Our focus is on promoting technical excellence – our engineers work at the forefront of financial services innovation using cutting-edge technologies. 

As a highly skilled and self-motivated Senior Oracle PL/SQL Developer, you will collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, and other engineering teams to understand and solve business problems using technology. Together with the team, you will take ownership of a complex, monolithic Oracle database that lacks documentation and institutional knowledge. This role requires a strong analytical mindset, persistence, and the ability to reverse-engineer legacy logic with minimal guidance.  

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

• Maintain, refactor, and optimize a large, undocumented PL/SQL codebase

• Manage production and non-production database performance, growth projections and similar strategies, designing database models. Work with central teams to improve performance and manage database related change

• Document complex database structures, logic, and dependencies as you uncover them

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into reliable database solutions and provide database expertise to the team

• Lead efforts to modernize and modularize legacy database components.  Ensure stability and reliability of critical data flows and batch processes

• L3 production database support for Exadata and Oracle Databases

Your skills and experience

• Hands-on experience in PL/SQL development, ideally within legacy or monolithic systems

• Preferably Oracle Certified Master (OCM), proficient in the use of JIRA, git, bitbucket, JAVA, Bash, Shell Scripting

• Strong understanding of Oracle RDBMS internals, performance tuning, and query optimization 

• Practical and in-depth knowledge of Oracle databases, Oracle Exadata and database tuning and development including query optimisations, SQL authoring and similar

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

• Bonus: Experience in modernization projects or transitioning legacy systems to modular architectures

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career

• 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 (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

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 adjustmentsconcierge@db.com 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.