Head of Engineering

Take full technical ownership of a mission-critical, highly regulated financial data platform and shape its future at scale as Head of Engineering for DERICON. This role offers a rare opportunity to combine deep technical ownership with strategic influence in a regulated financial environment.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 30 days of annual leave
• Leave for special occasions
• Summer, marriage, and Christmas bonuses
• Anniversary bonus
• Group accident insurance
• Versatile/hybrid working
• Extra leave for professional development (Bildungsurlaub)
• Sabbatical option
• Access to Cashcalc and FE Analytics
• Access to LinkedIn Learning
• Participation in our Community Day initiative