Director of Engineering (m/w/d) – Group Platform

Core Responsibilities:

• Platform & Developer Experience Define and evolve the internal platform — cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and developer tooling — so that product engineering teams can deliver safely and at high velocity. Drive a "platform as a product" mindset, treating internal teams as customers.
• Quality Engineering Own the group-wide QA strategy. Set QA standards and work with the QA engineers who are embedded in the product teams. Set standards for automated testing standards, quality gates, and cross-team release confidence frameworks. Elevate quality from a phase to a continuous practice embedded in every team's workflow.
• IT & Operational Reliability Ensure robust IT support and business continuity management across all locations. Own tech BCM planning, IT resilience, and the operational readiness of internal systems that keep the organisation running.
• Security & Compliance Enablement Work in close partnership with the CISO and the Head of Security to translate security strategy into engineering execution. Ensure that ICT risk management, security engineering, and regulatory obligations (BaFin, DSGVO, DORA)
• AI Internal App Support & Automation Champion the use of AI to accelerate internal productivity in the wider organisation outside of tech. Own the AI Internal App Support function, including AI automation engineers and workflow/process automation specialists, and establish a roadmap for how AI tooling can compound delivery capacity across the organisation.

• Platform Leadership: Proven experience leading platform/infrastructure engineering teams in fintech, banking, or high-scale digital environments.

• Broad Engineering Domain: Strong understanding across cloud operations (AWS/Azure), DevOps/DevSecOps, mobile engineering, QA, and modern SRE practices.

• Security & Compliance: Hands-on knowledge of security and regulatory compliance frameworks (DORA, GDPR/DSGVO, BaFin).

• Scaling Horizontal Functions: Track record of scaling platform/shared teams to enable broader engineering orgs efficiently.

• Multiplier mindset: focuses on enabling product teams and driving outcomes over team size.

• Cross-functional Influence: Excellent cross-functional influence with Engineering, Security, Finance, and Executive leadership.

• Operational rigor: establishes SLAs, incident management, on-call, and data-driven metrics.

• Advocate for AI adoption to improve engineering productivity and automation at scale.

• Skilled in change management: introducing standards and tools through enablement, not top-down mandates.

• Security Engineering: Deep technical expertise in cloud-native architectures, infrastructure-as-code, containers, cost optimization, and security engineering (zero-trust, secrets management, secure SDLC).

• Strong observability and reliability knowledge: SLOs, error budgets, incident response, post-mortem culture, and resilient system design.

You’ll join a modern work environment with over 250 colleagues, shaped by trust, flexibility, and genuine collaboration. You’ll work in a hybrid setup and use our office hubs in Karlsruhe, Munich or Berlin; complemented by up to 15 days of “workation” within the EU per calendar year.

We actively support your personal and professional development through training, seminars, and conferences in the dynamic fintech and stock/financial sector. We place great importance on an open, collaborative atmosphere, team spirit, and shared success.

You can also expect the following benefits:

• Modern office hubs & hybrid working

• Training and development opportunities in financial markets/investing

• Regular team events & a strong company culture

• Health & mobility benefits (bike leasing, public transport subsidy)

• Attractive financial benefits & additional perks

• An environment where you can contribute, grow, and feel comfortable