Head of Engineering overseeing technical ownership of a financial data platform at DERICON. Leading multidisciplinary teams while ensuring compliance and operational excellence in a regulated environment.
Responsibilities
Owning the end-to-end system architecture of the DERICON platform, including microservices, data flows, dependencies, and failure modes across the full ecosystem.
Ensuring regulatory readiness as a deliverable, translating BAIT/DORA/BaFin expectations into technical controls, evidence/documentation, audit support, and measurable security & resilience outcomes while evolving the module-by-feature architecture.
Leading and developing a multidisciplinary technology organisation, providing clear direction, prioritisation, and technical guidance.
Hiring and onboarding key engineers, shaping role profiles, running interviews, and ensuring sustainable knowledge transfer.
Owning production operations end-to-end, including incident & problem management, monitoring/alerting, on call/escalations, post-mortems, and continuous reliability improvements across AWS and CI/CD.
Owning release & change management, including rollout/rollback strategy, production readiness checks, and controlled change in a regulated environment.
Providing crisp decision proposals (risk, cost, timeline, compliance impact) to business/compliance stakeholders, and leading technical escalations with senior leadership and auditors when required.
Steering complex, multiphase projects while balancing risk, regulatory obligations, cost, and delivery timelines.
Requirements
You bring proven experience designing and owning end-to-end system architectures within complex microservice environments.
Proven experience running systems in production (not just building them): incident leadership, reliability improvements, and operational ownership in a microservice ecosystem.
You have strong hands-on expertise in AWS-based cloud infrastructure, including security, service provisioning, and CI/CD and DevOps tooling.
You have led multidisciplinary engineering teams, combining technical leadership with coaching, prioritisation, and roadmap alignment.
You are experienced in working within regulated environments and designing technically sound solutions aligned with frameworks such as BaFin, BAIT, or DORA.
You communicate complex technical topics clearly and confidently to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership and auditors.
Benefits
Enjoy 30 days of annual leave plus half-days on December 24th and 31st.
Access leave for special occasions, including weddings, bereavements, moving, and family emergencies.
Benefit from summer, marriage, and Christmas bonuses along with an anniversary bonus.
Secure peace of mind with group accident insurance.
Take advantage of versatile/hybrid working and extra leave for professional development (Bildungsurlaub), along with a sabbatical option.
Utilize full access to Cashcalc and FE Analytics, and access LinkedIn Learning.
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