ITAO – Application Owner, Associate

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Additional Job Description

Job Title: ITAO – Application Owner, Associate

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

The Application Owner (AO) is accountable for the application management of a single application or a portfolio of applications. The AO ensures that applications are enhanced and maintained in accordance with the Bank’s IT security, risk, compliance, application strategy, and service-level requirements, while identifying, managing, and appropriately escalating associated risks and issues.

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

ITAO Specific Responsibilities and Accountabilities

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

• The Application Owner is in charge of a broad set of duties. On one hand, AO has a management responsibility for an application instance. On the other hand, the AO is requested to provide detailed administrative information in self-assessments to comply with the IT Policies & Standards.
• The latter can be mostly delegated, but always stays in the responsibility of the AO.
• The following are typically some of the tasks for which an AO is responsible for:
• Facilitate Disaster Recovery activities by reviewing DR plans and coordinating the execution of DR exercise for the application.
• Manage Internal and external application audits and Audit issue remediation activities.
• 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.
• Infrastrucute Activities -  Server Procurement, Server Activation, server Decommision
• 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
• AO should have basic technical capabilities and infrastructure knowledge.
• Networking knowledge will be value added

Your skills and experience

People Management

• The behaviours provided below should be adopted by all Deutsche Bank employees in relation to their development and management of others.

Experience/ Exposure

• Information Security controls understanding
• Governance and compliance experience
• Audit experience and IAM (Identity and access Management)
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Open minded
• Ability to work in fast paced environment
• Ability to manage the expectations of stakeholders
• Vendor management will be value added.
• Passion about sharing knowledge and best practice
• Ability to work in virtual teams and in matrix organizations
• Proven project management and people management skills
• Fluent English (written/verbal)

Education/ Qualifications

• Any Graduate, Post Graduate from an accredited college or university
• Software Technology tools (OS – UNIX and WINDOWS, Java, .NET Databases – Oracle, Sybase, SQL, Web concepts)   P2 – Basic
• IT Security, Risk & Compliance        P2 – Basic
• Systems Development Lifecycle      P3 – Experienced

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.

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.