Senior IT Application Owner

Senior IT Application Owner, AVP

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior IT Application Owner, AVP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• The IT Application Owner (ITAO) – AVP within SDA is accountable for the end‑to‑end ownership, operational stability, and regulatory compliance of software applications supporting SDA platforms and services.
• The role ensures that applications are secure, resilient, audit‑ready, and compliant with IT Governance and Information Security policies, while enabling efficient software delivery and architectural alignment across SDA initiatives. The ITAO acts as the primary technology owner and control point for assigned applications across their full lifecycle.

Why This Role Matters in SDA

This AVP ITAO role is critical to balancing speed of delivery with control and resilience in SDA. The role ensures that innovation and engineering excellence are delivered without compromising security, compliance, or audit readiness.

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

Application Ownership & Lifecycle (SDA Focus)

• Own assigned SDA applications across design, build, run, and decommissioning stages.
• Maintain application accountability, criticality classification, and lifecycle status in the IT Asset repository.
• Ensure accurate and timely metadata management in IT Asset inventories and CMDB.
• Act as the primary IT contact for SDA‑owned applications across delivery, operations, and control functions.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure full IT and Information Security compliance with DB policies, governance charters, and regulatory expectations.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate application risks.
• Support internal, external, and regulatory audits, including timely remediation of audit findings.
• Complete required recurring assessments and provide evidence for audit and regulatory requests.

Application Security & Monitoring

• Ensure critical application activities are logged, monitored, and reviewed.
• Oversee security scanning, vulnerability testing, and remediation of application code, binaries, and environments.
• Ensure SDA applications are onboarded to approved security and monitoring controls and tooling.

Identity & Access Management (IAM)

• Ensure compliance across the IAM lifecycle (on‑boarding, recertification, off‑boarding).
• Confirm applications are integrated with central IAM tooling and aligned with DB access policies.
• Ensure regular access reviews and remediation of control gaps.

Infrastructure, Resilience & Cloud Alignment

• Ensure application infrastructure is patched, supported, and compliant.
• Plan and manage application upgrades, platform migrations, and license alignment.
• Own Disaster Recovery (DR) plans, execute regular DR tests, and track remediation.
• Oversee capacity planning, availability, and performance monitoring.
• Ensure cloud migration and cloud‑control compliance for SDA applications where applicable.
• Coordinate response and remediation for application‑level IT security incidents.

SDLC & Delivery Enablement (SDA Alignment)

• Drive operational readiness for new SDA applications and major changes.
• Ensure adherence to SDLC controls across build, test, release, and production.
• Confirm all required SDLC control checkpoints are green prior to go‑live.
• Ensure records management and documentation meet policy requirements.
• Work closely with SDA delivery, DevOps, and architecture teams to enable secure and compliant delivery at pace.

Stakeholder Management

• CIO / CIO‑1 organization
• SDA delivery and engineering teams
• Domain Architects
• Infrastructure, Cloud, and Operations teams
• Information Security, Risk, and Compliance
• Internal and external Audit teams

Reporting & Governance

• Reports directly or indirectly into the responsible CIO‑1.
• Escalation line: Portfolio Owner → CIO‑1.
• May delegate tasks, but retains full ITAO accountability for the application.
• Remains accountable until formally replaced in the Software Asset repository.

Your skills and experience

Required

• Strong experience in application ownership, IT operations, or SDA‑aligned delivery environments
• Solid understanding of IT governance, information security, and regulatory compliance
• Experience supporting audits, risk assessments, and control remediation
• Knowledge of SDLC, IAM, infrastructure operations, DR, and security controls
• Ability to operate effectively in a regulated, large‑scale enterprise environment

Desired

• Exposure to modern SDLC / DevOps models
• Experience with cloud‑hosted or distributed applications
• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, architecture, and control functions

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

Senior Level