Data Integration Lead, Vice President

Employer:              DWS Group Title:                       Data Integration Lead, Vice President Location:                Madrid Job Code:              placeholder for LinkedIn job wrapping 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. We’re looking for creative thinkers and innovators to join us as the world continues to transform. As whole markets change, one thing remains clear; our people always work together to capture the opportunities of tomorrow. As investors on behalf of our clients, it is our role to find investment solutions. Ensuring the best possible foundation for our clients’ financial future. And in return, we’ll give you the support and platform to develop new skills, make an impact and work alongside some of the industry’s greatest thought leaders. This is your chance to achieve your goals and lead an extraordinary career. This is your chance to invest in your future. Read more about DWS and who we are here. Team / division overview DWS Corporate Functions Technology operates across a hybrid landscape of DWS-managed applications, Deutsche Bank-provided technology services, cloud platforms, SaaS solutions and enterprise integration services.  This role offers a unique opportunity to help shape and implement the strategic future-state technology landscape for DWS Corporate Functions globally, working across cloud, on-premise, SaaS and enterprise platforms in a regulated asset management environment.  The Data Integration Lead will be responsible for defining and delivering the data integration architecture required to support this transformation. The role will provide technical leadership across cloud and hybrid technology ecosystems, ensuring that data can move securely, reliably and efficiently between strategic platforms, enterprise services and business-critical applications.  Your responsibilities – As Corporate Functions Data Integration Lead, Vice President, you will: Define and evolve the enterprise data integration architecture and roadmap for DWS Corporate Functions across cloud-native, hybrid, SaaS and on-premise ecosystems.  Lead architectural decisions for strategic integration scenarios, including GCP-to-GCP, GCP-to-on-premise, application-to-application, batch, real-time, event-driven, API-led and CDC-based data integration.  Establish standards, frameworks, reusable patterns and best practices for data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, distribution and integration across strategic platforms.  Drive modernisation from legacy ETL platforms towards cloud-native integration services, ensuring migration choices are pragmatic, controlled and aligned to DWS architecture, risk and operational resilience expectations.  Provide technical governance and design assurance across major initiatives, challenging solution designs where needed and ensuring alignment with agreed architecture principles and engineering standards.  Lead the design of near real-time and real-time data processing solutions, including streaming pipelines, low-latency feeds and event-driven services where these are the right architectural fit.  Oversee the design of reliable, scalable and observable data feeds for market, reference, position, transaction, investment and operational data.  Provide hands-on technical leadership for strategic initiatives, including design reviews, proof-of-concept work, complex issue resolution and guidance on implementation quality.  Partner with engineering teams, platform owners, architects and business