Deutsche Bank operate a large mixed cloud environment that provides scalable big-data capabilities throughout the various organisations within the firm. These use cases include AI and data mining to aid anti-financial crime operations, trading decisions and other compliance related activities among others.

I was contracted as lead technical architect and fulfilled the role of team leader managing a multidisciplinary team of user experience designers, front end developers in London, UK and back end developers across India. I was responsible for mapping out the service architecture used by the various stakeholders using the big data platform and defining data models for the designers to design their user experiences and defining the required API's for the backend and front end developers.

Through the project I provided addition technical support and problem solving in areas including creating deployment workflows to internal cloud infrastructure, identifying security issues and their solutions. Large organisations such as investment banks have significant challenges due to the complex and wide ranging technical infrastructure that is used across internal organisations and as such understanding the particular intricacies of that firm can hinder progress when performing tasks that require a lot of concentration such as programming. So, by taking on the task of mapping out the required services, how to integrate with led to significant productivity improvements for those team members who the just had to execute on their integration tasks.

Highlights

  • As lead technical architect I bridged the gap between front end development team in London, UK and the back end development teams across India and ensured the aesthetic designs were suitable and possible with the available internal APIs and available data.
  • Hands on technical troubleshooting and research into internal processes and cloud services, creating proof of concept prototypes and workflows to enable friction free development for developers in UK and India.
  • Deployed application to internal cloud container environment (redshift) and promote to pre-production.
  • Supported product owners with technical decision making with other external vendors and their product assessments.
  • Identified a number of security vulnerablilities and best practices and pushed for their resolution.
  • Worked closely with teams across India to ensure successful hand over and continuity from development and design teams in London.