Principal Engineering Lead
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 5, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 1, 2025. Dws scores B on the Alion truth index.
Job Description:
Employer: DWS Group
Job Title: Director - Principal Engineering Lead
Location:Pune, India
About DWS:
Today, markets face a whole new set of pressures - but also a whole lot of opportunity too. Opportunity to innovate differently. Opportunity to invest responsibly. And opportunity to make change.
Join us at DWS, and you can be part of an industry-leading firm with a global presence. You can lead ambitious opportunities and shape the future of investing. You can support our clients, local communities, and the environment.
Read more about DWS and who we are here.
Team / division overview
The Chief Operating Office (COO) , CTO DWS Tech Division is a key enabler for DWS and is integral to the future success of the company by delivering world-class services across a set of key functions. It covers essential Technology and Operations capabilities, and aims to deliver a platform which is efficient, scalable, resilient and agile.
Your responsibilities:
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the engineering , design and delivery of digital platforms and is responsible for managing or performing work across multiple areas of the bank's overall IT Platform/Infrastructure including analysis, development, and administration. It may also involve taking functional oversight of engineering delivery for specific departments. Work includes:
- Planning and developing entire engineering solutions to accomplish business goals
- Building reliability and resiliency into solutions with appropriate testing and reviewing throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Ensuring maintainability and reusability of engineering solutions.
- Ensuring solutions are well architected and can be integrated successfully into the end-to-end business process flow.
- Reviewing engineering plans and quality to drive re-use and improve engineering capability
- Participating in industry forums to drive adoption of innovative technologies, tools, and solutions in the Bank.
- Architect, develop, and maintain UI components using React.js and JavaScript.
- Define and enforce best practices for UI development, coding standards and performance optimization.
- Collaborate with UI/UX designers, product managers and backend developers to deliver seamless responsive interfaces.
- Write clean, maintainable and well-documented code.
- Drive code reviews, unit testing and integration testing processes.
- Contribute to architecture and design decisions for scalable frontend systems and own performance, accessibility and cross browser compatibility.
We are looking for:
Must HaveTechnology Skills:
- 15-20 years of hands-on technical and functional experience in financial industry app development with technologies such as: Java, Springboot, React JS, Kafka, Cloud, CI/CD, Dev Ops, Test Automation.
- Progressive engineering hands on development experience to lead engineering teams with enterprise scale applications
- Strong Agile skills with running Dev Ops, IT Risk and control, SRE scrum teams and squads.
Skills that will help you shine:
Team Management:
- Experience with people development with respect to training, upskilling, providing right opportunities within India and global squads.
- Promotes engineering culture and improves productivity amongst India FTE and vendor staff. Grooms and coaches the team providing proper career progression.
- Dynamic resource management and close collaboration with DWS global tech and product teams.
- Excellent skills and appetite to maintain risk & control hygiene. Streamline ITAO processes with automation.
- Will require broader promotion of people strategy activities within DWS Tech India.
- Recruits additional talent in a timely manner, grows the team in India with new skills such as Workfusion AI, Blockchain & Tokenization.
Stakeholder/Business Management:
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills to work with India operations, EMEA/APAC business leaders.
- Knowledge in Banking Payment systems will be a huge plus.
Educational & technical qualification requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Science or an IT-related discipline (or equivalent)
- More than 10 years’ experience (hands-on) development in full stack solutions
What we’ll offer you:
At DWS we’re serious about diversity, equity and creating an inclusive culture where colleagues can be themselves and it’s important to us that you enjoy coming to work - feeling healthy, happy and rewarded. At DWS you’ll have access to a range of benefits including, but not limited, to the below:
- A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, comprehensive leave policy, personal and volunteer days
- Best in class leave policy.
- Gender neutral parental leaves
- 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
- Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
- Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
- Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
- Accident and Term life Insurance
- Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above
About us and our teams
Please visit our company website for further information:
https://www.db.com/company/company.htm
We at DWS are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, one that embraces dialogue and diverse views, and treats everyone fairly to drive a high-performance culture. The value we create for our clients and investors is based on our ability to bring together various perspectives from all over the world and from different backgrounds. It is our experience that teams perform better and deliver improved outcomes when they are able to incorporate a wide range of perspectives. We call this #ConnectingTheDots.