IT Application Owner - Vice President

ITAO, VP

Job Description:

Job Title: ITAO, VP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• IT Application Owner (ITAO) is accountable for the Application Management of a single or a portfolio of applications.
• The ITAO must ensure that the application(s) are enhanced and maintained in accordance with the Bank’s IT Security Risk and Compliance requirements of the client and other stakeholders as included in the application strategy and service levels.
• The ITAO identifies and manages the risks and issues associated with the application(s) and escalate appropriately

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

• 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

Your key responsibilities

Position Specific Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Guidance for setting out the responsibilities and tasks to be carried out in the position:

• To manage and maintain their instances ensuring compliance with application IT policies and procedures.
• To review, analyse the impact of all the changes to their instances, to ensure compliance
• To work in collaboration with Production team, SMEs and expert level production level services
• The IT Application Owner is in charge of a broad set of duties. On one hand, ITAO has a management responsibility for an application instance.
• On the other hand, the ITAO is requested to provide detailed administrative information in self-assessments to comply with the IT Policies & Standards of the Bank.
• The latter can be mostly delegated, but always stays in the responsibility of the ITAO.
• Experience in managing IT applications in technical landscape
• Should have awareness of application design, development, implementation, and user support principles and practices.
• Understanding application architectures, application software interfaces
• Should have experience in IT Service Management/ServiceNow/similar tools
• Experience in handling applications Risk and Controls, IT and IS Security controls

The following are typically some of the tasks for which an ITAO is responsible for:

• Disaster Recovery activities by reviewing DR plans and coordinating the execution of DR exercise for the application.
• Manage remediation of gaps in application lifecycle management activities such as Account recertification, remediation of Application configuration gaps etc.
• Manage application related Risk and Compliance Evaluation tasks and resolution of gaps in this area.
• Manage any IT Security incidents that may occur in the application.
• Plan and Manage Application events and Database Events monitoring using Bank wide standard monitoring tools.
• Manage application capacity forecasting and monitoring.
• Plan and manage Application user access related tasks.
• Infrastructure Activities - Server Procurement, Server Activation, server Decommission
• Plan for Application Hardware / Software / License upgrades or migration activities to align to the compliant platforms.
• Close Coordination & Collaboration with Internal Stakeholder/ External Stakeholders and Vendors
• Strong Logical Aptitude to understand the overall Application and root out the gaps wherein required
• Good Questioning skills to understand the Root Cause of the request
• ITAO should have basic technical capabilities and infrastructure knowledge.
• Onboard application onto Deutsche Bank's IT Risk and control related tools
• Interface with Internal and External Auditors for IT Audits and self-identified issues in order to reduce risk.
• Identify IT Risk and control related gaps based on the knowledge of application and Deutsche Bank policies
• Remediate IT related Audit Findings and IT Risk and control related issues

Your skills and experience

• ITAO should have basic technical capabilities and infrastructure knowledge.
• Onboard application onto Deutsche Bank's IT Risk and control related tools
• Interface with Internal and External Auditors for IT Audits and self-identified issues in order to reduce risk.
• Identify IT Risk and control related gaps based on the knowledge of application and Deutsche Bank policies
• Remediate IT related Audit Findings and IT Risk and control related issues

Technical Skills

• Adobe, Java, Oracle, Jira, Control M

Common Knowledge:

• Experience in Application Life cycle Management
• ITIL Knowledge
• Background on risk management, compliance evaluation, IS and IT Audit facilitation
• Strong in Stakeholder Management
• SDLC Governance, Onboarding & Remediation

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.html

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.

Experience Level

Executive Level