Job Title: IT Application owner

Corporate Title: AVP

Location: Pune

Role Description

As the International Private Bank (IPB), we combine capabilities of Deutsche Bank Wealth Management (WM) and Private & Commercial Business International (PCBI). Altogether, we serve 3.4 m private, wealth and commercial clients with over 250 bn Eur of assets under management and revenue of 3 bn Eur (10th Jun-20). As a trusted partner of wealthy individuals and entrepreneurs, family offices and foundations, we create lasting value for our clients by developing bespoke solutions such as wealth planning across successive generations and international borders, asset management with individual risk management, loans and deposits.

As a business, we are fortunate to be a strategic priority for Deutsche Bank. This enables us to have the resources to make such investments possible.

These are exciting times for everyone at Deutsche Bank International Private Bank. We hope you will be inspired to further your career with us and join our amazing team within BEX.

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 IT Application owner (ITAO) is responsible for the Application Management and has to ensure that the applications are enhanced and maintained in accordance to the Bank’s IT Policy requirements on the application lifecycle governance

The ITAO responsibilities include:

• Ongoing enhancement and maintenance of the application including management of scope.
• Ensuring that the changes to the applications in scope are fully aligned DB standards and regulations. The main focus is to guarantee the system stability and to ensure a smooth and successful transition to production, steady-state environment.
• Conducting strategic planning for the application.
• Managing strategic capacity, consumption and performance management (Forecast and management based on business plans).
• Efficiently engage, manage and influence the main stakeholders, along with the related emerging risks and opportunities.
• Ensuring policy-compliance for the application. Facilitating and contributing to the audit activities.
• Managing software licenses, security certificates and contracts with service providers.
• Ensuring documentation availability.
• Identifying and managing technical projects necessary to ensure required and established service levels are maintained.
• Working with development center team to estimate work effort throughout different phases of the functional domain deliverables.
• Assisting with development of configuration/monitoring/packaging/deployment/automations.
• Identifying, documenting and communicating risks and issues discovered during delivery cycle.

Your skills and experience

The right candidate will have:

• IT Service Management, IT Governance or IT Project Management background.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, highly organized and disciplined.
• Experienced in working with multiple stakeholders. Ability to create and naturally maintain good business relationships with all stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in VUCA (Volatility Uncertainty Complexity Ambiguity) and highly dynamic environments.
• ITAO will typically have a rather limited technical hands on involvement. A high-level understanding on the products/technologies below is welcomed:
  • Databases: mainly Oracle
  • Application/web servers (like J2EE based, especially JBoss, Tomcat, WebLogic Server, Apache)
  • Management of security certificates.
  • Unix servers very basic administration
  • Microservices and SOA
  • Communication and encryption protocols (mainly HTTP(S), SSL)
  • Networking (firewalls, load balancers, etc)
  • High Availability Architecture.
• Reasonable understanding and relevant experience in Agile-Scrum delivery and main tools (Jira & Confluence);
• 4-5 years of work experience in IT;
• 2-3 years project management or application owner experience.

Preferable skills

• Experience working with distributed development teams;
• Experience in finance products

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

Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.

We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

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