IT Application Owner, AVP

Job Title- IT Application Owner, AVP

Location- Pune, India

Role Description

• The applicant will act as an IT Application Owner for applications in the CIB Domain.
• The IT Application Owner (ITAO) is accountable for the Application Management of portfolio of applications. The ITAO has to ensure that the application(s) are enhanced and maintained in accordance with the Bank’s IT Security Risk and Compliance requirements. The Technology Roadmap within DB and the Business plans.
• The ITAO should work with relevant stakeholders of the application and ensure that he or she effectively identifies and manages risks, issues, compliance gaps in line with DB IT risk and compliance policies and also the road map of the business stakeholders.
• Service levels need to be evolved and met based on business needs.
• The ITAO need to proactively escalate with relevant stake holders to ensure that there is no slippage in meeting IT Risk, compliance and audit goals for the application, portfolio of applications.
• This role expects the person to have some experience in Project Management.
• The ITAO is also expected to take part in the Annual budget planning exercise with respect to his or her application along with relevant stakeholders if necessary.

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

The Application Owner is in charge of a broad set of duties. On one hand an ITAO has a management responsibility for a set of application within the portfolio.  On the other hand, the ITAO is requested to provide detailed administrative information in self-assessments to comply with the IT Policies & Standards.

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

• Lead Risk and compliance process for the set of application that he or she is the IT owner.
• 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.
• Plan for Application Hardware / Software / License upgrades or migration activities to align to the compliant platforms.

Your skills and experience:

• Maintenance & Monitoring of Application/Environment Access levels for all the relevant teams in the Application life cycle phases 
• Ongoing enhancement and maintenance of an application including management of scope & on-time Upgrades of Environments.
• Conducting strategic planning for the application & environments.
• Identifying and managing technical projects necessary to ensure required and established service levels are maintained.
• Managing strategic capacity, consumption and performance management (Forecast and management based on business plans).
• Ensuring policy-compliance for dB RAMM, SOX, ASG, ISP, Audit.
• Managing software licenses, security certificates and contracts with service providers.
• Manage technical projects necessary to ensure required and established service levels are maintained.
• Ensuring availability of all necessary application/service knowledge and documentation and are timely updated.
• Collaborating with various stakeholders including the Audit and Risk leads, Application vendors, Development, Deployment, DevOps, Testing and Production Management team members and project & program managers
• Steering, overseeing and delivering the design and development of industrialization solutions into the production support teams for operations and monitoring.
• Performing reviews for all technical changes in close collaboration with Development/DevOps team representatives (both business and IT).
• Assisting with DevOps objectives of configuration/monitoring/packaging/deployment automations.
• Identifying, documenting and communicating risks and issues discovered during delivery cycles.
• Participating in meetings with business and development, production support teams on product enhancement and development planning calls, evaluate and coordinate production incidents escalations.
• Coordinate with Risk and Control Program & Transformation lead to ensure all the necessary RnC items are addressed on time with resolutions there by mainlining the Application and Infra health status Green.
• Good understanding of the SDLCs and current IT trends in managing Projects. 
• Excellent communication and influencing skills across various levels of stakeholders.
• Open minded and willing to learn business and technology.
• Ability to work in fast paced environment with multiple requirements.
• Ability to manage the expectations of stakeholders and also set expectation with clear milestones and target dates to achieve.
• Passion about sharing knowledge and best practice.
• Ability to work in virtual teams and in weak matrix organizations across geographic locations.
• Project management skills are must.
• Fluent in English (written/verbal)
• Ability to mentor juniors.
• Team Player

Specific Technology Skills

• Minimum 7-9 years of work experience in IT
• Knowledge about ITIL framework. Certification will be a plus.
• Experience in Banking and Finance domain would be an advantage.
• 2-3 years project management or application owner experience
• Experience with SDLC framework
• Database knowledge (Oracle, Hadoop, MongoDB etc.)
• Experience with audit and compliance
• Knowledge about Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) or any cloud certification
• Understanding of Continuous Integration and Deployment DevOps Tools such as GIT, Maven, Artifactory, Jenkins, Teamcity, Puppet, BladeLogic etc.,
• Experienced with: Java Server Technology, ANT, continuous integration and dev ops tools will be a plus.
• Ability to work on tight deadlines.
• Good communication and excellent interpersonal skills
• Experience with working multiple stakeholders with excellent coordination skills.
• Experience in creating solution roadmaps and plan with periodic governance status reporting and monitoring.

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.htm

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.