Head of M7 Trading Development

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Deutsche Börse Group is one of the world's leading exchange organisations and an innovative market infrastructure provider. With our products and services, we ensure that capital markets are fair, transparent, reliable, and stable. Together, we develop state-of-the-art IT solutions and offer our IT systems all over the world. Play a key role in our mission: to create trust in the markets of today and tomorrow.

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Your career at Deutsche Börse Group

Deutsche Börse's Energy IT department is home to the M7 Product line: a family of best-in-class SaaS platforms reshaping Energy commodities trading across Europe. Here in Energy IT we strive to keep an open and innovative mentality. Our people and customers are our core focus. We seek technology-minded, self-driven individuals to join our team and become integral parts of our design and decision-making processes. Join Energy IT and help us build innovative, high-performance products that power Europe's energy markets

Area of work:

We're developing M7 Trading, the best performing local trading solution for European intraday energy trading market. As the Head of our M7 Trading Development Unit, you will lead and grow our team of Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers and Functional Analysts. Together you will be responsible for all aspects of the M7 Trading product. You and your team will enable this by designing and delivering a high throughput, low latency 24/7 system with ever growing competitive environment.

As a key-stakeholder in the M7T product, you will grow a culture of strong, healthy, agile collaboration with the M7T Operations unit with a shared goal to deliver this product to the market as successfully as possible.

As a member of our Leadership Team, you will actively define and contribute to the Section's targets and overall vision. You will cooperate with other team leaders to shape our Section strategy and create a robust, transparent, and effective organizational structure.

Your responsibilities:

• Team Management & Mentorship: Lead, grow, couch and mentor a high-performing team of people in software development roles. Foster a collaborative and positive culture while managing recruitment, performance evaluations, and professional development.
• Strategic & Technical Leadership: Define and execute the software development vision and strategy,
• ensuring alignment with business goals. Drive technical innovation by staying current with industry
• trends and overseeing key architectural decisions.
• Project Delivery & Execution: Oversee the entire software development lifecycle from planning to
• deployment. Support your teams so projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meet the highest quality standards.
• Quality & Architectural Oversight: Foster development best practices, coding standards, and robust
• review protocols to ensure code quality. Guide the evolution of the software architecture to support
• scalability, reliability, and performance.

Your profile:

• Leadership skills to lead and manage technical teams, preferably within highly available and highly
• performant products portfolio.
• Strong understanding of agile software development principles and practices.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Growth mindset.
• Proficient in English in reading, writing and communicating

Nice to have:

• Hands-on experience with software development technologies (e.g. Java/Kotlin, RabbitMQ, Kafka,
• gRPC, React)
• Energy trading related experience
• Experience with Cloud and DevOps principles
• Bachelor's+ degree in computer science or a related field
• German language knowledge

Why Deutsche Börse Group?

We are committed to providing a work environment where everyone feels welcome and can reach their full potential. Our standards go far beyond simply matching candidates with the right position.

Mobility

We enable you to move freely with our job tickets, job (e-)bikes and free parking opportunities.

Work environment

Collaboration, communication, or deep focus – in our modern office buildings you will find the perfect work environment. Free drinks and food and meal allowances included.

Health and wellbeing

We care for your health and wellbeing and besides various health promotion measures we offer you a group accident insurance and additional insurance offers at discounted rates.

Financial stability

We provide financial stability by offering attractive salaries, company pension schemes, participation in our Group Share Plan, as well as bonuses, subsidies and discounts.

Hybrid work

Collaborate and exchange on-site or work remotely several days a week in line with business needs and local regulations. Our hybrid working model combines the best of both worlds.

Flexible working hours

We want your job to fit your life situation and offer flexible working time models, childcare allowance, or the possibility to study alongside your job.

Internationality

Our market infrastructures are globally connected. Working with us means collaborating with like-minded colleagues across over 60 locations from more than 100 nations.

Development

We promote individual development by offering internal development programmes, mentoring, further education and training budgets.

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