ITAO (Application Owner), AVP

Position Overview

Job Title- ITAO (Application Owner), AVP

Location- Pune, India

Role Description

The Application Owner (AO) is accountable for managing either a single application or a portfolio of applications. The role ensures that each application:

• Is enhanced and maintained in line with the Bank's IT security, risk, compliance, application strategy, and service-level requirements.
• Has associated risks and issues identified, managed, and escalated appropriately.

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

The Application Owner (AO) is accountable for managing an application instance and ensuring compliance with applicable IT policies and standards. Administrative activities and self-assessments may be delegated however, overall accountability remains with the AO.

Risk, Compliance, and Resilience

• Facilitate disaster recovery activities by reviewing recovery plans and coordinating application recovery exercises.
• Manage internal and external application audits, including end-to-end remediation of audit findings.
• Oversee risk and compliance evaluations and resolve identified gaps.
• Coordinate the response to IT security incidents affecting the application.
• Remediate application lifecycle management gaps, including account recertification and application configuration issues.

Application Operations and Lifecycle

• Plan and manage application and database event monitoring using bank-wide standard tools.
• Manage application capacity forecasting and monitoring.
• Plan and manage application user-access activities.
• Coordinate infrastructure activities, including server procurement, activation, and decommissioning.
• Plan hardware, software, and license upgrades or migrations to maintain alignment with compliant platforms.

Stakeholder Collaboration and Core Capabilities

• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, external stakeholders, and vendors.
• Apply strong analytical and logical reasoning to understand the application landscape and identify gaps.
• Use effective questioning to understand the root cause of requests and issues.
• Demonstrate basic technical capability and infrastructure knowledge networking knowledge is an advantage.

People Management and Leadership

• Model the behaviours expected of Deutsche Bank employees when developing and managing others.
• Lead resources and drive multiple bank-wide initiatives as the lead ITAO.
• Independently manage projects end to end from a compliance and governance perspective.
• Own critical internal and external audits through to closure.

Your skills and experience

• 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 and Qualifications

• Graduate or postgraduate degree from an accredited college or university
• Basic knowledge (P2) of software technologies, including UNIX and Windows operating systems Java and .NET Oracle, Sybase, and SQL databases and web concepts
• Basic knowledge (P2) of IT security, risk, and compliance
• Experienced proficiency (P3) in the systems development lifecycle

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

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We strive for a 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.