Senior Python AI Engineer - Credit Risk technology (f/m/x)

Job Description:

DB Global Technology is Deutsche Bank’s technology centre in Central and Eastern Europe. Since its set-up in 2013, Bucharest Technology Centre (BEX) has constantly proven its capacity to deliver global technology products and services, playing a dynamic role in the Bank’s technology transformation.

We have a robust, hands-on engineering culture dedicated to continuous learning, knowledge-sharing, technical skill development and networking. We are an essential part of the Bank’s technology platform and develop applications for many important business areas.

Senior engineer role in a GCP-native AI engineering team within the Credit Risk team, building customer-facing solutions and agentic workflows for regulated banking use cases. The team delivers LLM-powered process orchestration on Google Cloud (Vertex AI, ADK, RAG), with strong focus on production quality, governance, and scalable delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver agentic workflows using Google ADK and Vertex AI, integrating reliable tool-calling with enterprise services and clear fallback/escalation paths.
• Build and operate RAG-enabled chatbot capabilities (e.g., Vertex AI Search/Data Stores, DialogFlow where applicable), optimizing relevance, grounding, and user experience.
• Own production-grade engineering across the lifecycle: architecture, implementation (Python), testing, code reviews, and operational readiness (monitoring, runbooks, handover).
• Establish evaluation and quality gates for LLM features (e.g., RAGAS, golden datasets, regression suites) and drive continuous improvement based on metrics and feedback.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across technology, product, operations and risk to align scope, manage dependencies, and ensure delivery meets governance, security and regulatory expectations.

Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud GenAI: Vertex AI and Google ADK (agent orchestration, tool-calling, safety patterns).

• Proven production experience with RAG systems (retrieval tuning, embeddings, chunking, grounding/citations) and conversational applications (chatbots/agents).

• Excellent software engineering in Python (primary) plus working TypeScript/JavaScript; API design, testing, performance and maintainability.

• Infrastructure-as-Code and delivery automation: Terraform on GCP and CI/CD with GitHub Actions; operational excellence mindset.

• Security and compliance awareness for regulated environments (PII handling, auditability, access control, prompt-injection/data-leakage mitigations).

• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

• Well-being & Benefits

• Emotionally and mentally balanced: We support you in dealing with life crises, maintaining stability through illness, and maintaining good mental health.

• Empowering managers who value your ideas and decisions. Show your positive attitude, determination, and open-mindedness.

• A professional, passionate, and fun workplace.

• A modern office with fun and relaxing areas to boost creativity.

• Continuous learning culture with coaching and support from team experts.

• A culture where you can openly speak about mental health.

• Physically thriving: We support you in managing your physical health by taking appropriate preventive measures and providing a workplace that helps you thrive. For example, Private healthcare and life insurance with premium benefits for you and discounts for your loved ones, healthier ways of working and check-ups.

• Socially connected: We strongly believe in collaboration, inclusion and feeling connected to open up new perspectives and strengthen our self-confidence and well-being.

• 24 days holiday, loyalty days, and bank holidays (including weekdays for weekend bank holidays).

• Hybrid working model with 40% remote work.

• Options for flexible working hours.

• Enjoy retailer discounts, cultural and CSR activities, workshops, and more.

• Financially secure: We support you in meeting personal financial goals during your active career and for the future.

• Competitive income, performance-based promotions, and a sense of purpose.

• Meal vouchers, bonuses for referrals

• Interested in more: discover what our employees value in the Well-being & Benefits hub!

• We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

• Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

• We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.