ITAO Lead, VP

Job Title: ITAO Lead

Corporate Title: Vice President

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

The ITAO Lead is a critical IT role with overall accountability and ownership for the applications and infrastructure instances. The role's key responsibility is end to end application IT Governance in line with the bank’s policies, procedures and standards. The ITAO Lead has to manage and maintain the applications, ensuring compliance with applicable IT policies & procedures and with specific consideration to IT Management and Information Security policies.

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

• Support the ITAO function across foundational platform portfolio.
• Has a good understanding of development methodologies and IT policies and procedures, with a focus on IT management and information security.
• Ensures the compliance with Deutsche Bank IT policies & procedures of all the applications in foundational platform.
• Implement the processes to improve safety and security of the applications, compliance with regulations, policies and standards and enhance operational readiness.
• Assists the bank’s audit function in the remediation of audit points and self-identified issues in order to reduce risk.
• On-board the applications onto Deutsche Bank’s IT Risk and control related tools. Interface with Internal and External Auditors for IT Audits.
• Controls IT assets ensuring that administration of the acquisition, storage and disposal of the assets is carried out as per the bank’s processes.
• Remediate IT related Audit Findings and IT Risk and control related issues.
• Facilitates open communications and discussions among the stakeholders with the stakeholder engagement strategies and plans. 
• Manage the technical roadmap of the application
• Plan/conduct/support the disaster recovery tests.
• Provide the trainings and facilitate the knowledge sharing within the ITAO function.
• Coordinate with external vendors and service providers to ensure seamless support and maintenance.

Your skills and experience

• Desirable experience at least 12-14+ plus years in the IT industry
• Prior ITAO experience is preferrable.
• Strong understanding of the SDLC and current IT trends in managing Projects.
• IT Risk Frameworks experience is needed.
• Banking / Financial industry Exposure is a plus.
• Business Risk audits experience is needed.
• Project/Development/ Release/Support Management and Technology Infrastructure management would be a plus.
• Strong team player who also can work under pressure, independently and proactively while balancing competing priorities to achieve results on complex new development and integrations.
• Experience of working together with Agile/Scrum teams and their methods.
• Tools Used: Jira, Confluence & other server monitoring tools.
• Experience in working in IT Risk, IT Service Management, Run the Bank and Support domains.

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.