IT Application Owner Specialist

Job Title: ITAO Lead, VP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• The ITAO is the function responsible on the application lifecycle governance.
• The ITAO manager will ensure applications in the portfolio will ensure compliance, maintenance and improvement processes are following DB policies and customer requirements.

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

• Manage the team of ITAOs in NFRM & Audit portfolio, India based, keeping regular 1-1s, mid and end-year performance reviews in collaboration with ITAO Team members globally, escalation management, training new joiners and other team related activities.
• From a management perspective, provide guidance, support, and encourage professional growth for team in India.
• From a technical/ITAO activity perspective, provide guidance, support, and training to the fellow ITAOs within the portfolio, Pune or Bucharest based.
• Align on deliveries and strategy of NARs.
• Make sure portfolio is compliant, considering tasks and activities coming from: Control Workbench, and other requirements from the stakeholders.
• Participate in planning/Scrum meetings and make sure tasks are gathered before Quarterly Reviews and make sure priorities are set by working closely with Scrum Master. 
• Provide support and expertise on GCP technical aspects to the squads.
• Make sure ITAO community changes and updates are known and followed in the ITAO community.
• Make sure ITAO Lead directions are known and followed in the ITAO community.
• Ensure that the changes to the applications in scope are fully aligned DB standards and regulations. The focus is to guarantee the system stability and to ensure a smooth and successful transition to production, steady state environment.
• Ensure availability of all necessary application/service knowledge and documentation.
• Manage technical projects necessary to ensure required and established service levels are maintained.
• Ensure policy-compliance of applications in scope.
• Efficiently engage, manage, and influence the main stakeholders, along with the related emerging risks and opportunities.
• Ensures documentation availability.
• Contributes to audits and make sure the team answers professionally and the timelines are respected and properly communicated.
• Contributes to Go Live transitions.
• Collaborates with Support entities on ensuring proper operational levels for the given application.
• Follow-up on capacity management.

Your skills and experience

• GCP expertise of 1-2 years.
• ITAO GCP curriculum training successfully completed.
• Knowledge about ITIL framework. Certification will be a plus.
• Experience with IT Service management processes
• Database knowledge (Oracle)
• 7+ years of work experience in IT.
• 5+ years project management or application owner experience.
• Master’s degree or equivalent work experience required;
• Experience working with distributed development teams.
• Experience with SDLC framework;
• Excellent communication skills written and verbal at all levels including senior management;
• Experience with audit and compliance;
• Experienced with: Java Server Technology, ANT, continuous integration and dev ops tools will be a plus;
• High-level knowledge on Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• Ability to work on tight deadlines and
• Coordination skills between multi-region teams and stakeholders.  

Education/Certification

• University degree, relevant field of knowledge; ITIL or relevant

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

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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.

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.