IT Application Owner (ITAO), VP

Job Title: IT Application Owner (ITAO), VP

Location: Pune, India

Corporate Title: VP

Role Description

• Our Home Loan Savings teams at Deutsche Bank - Private Bank (TDI) develop and maintain applications for home loan savings business of Private Customers (BHW). Changes are implemented on time to market challenges as well as on development of the application landscape by using Google Cloud technology. In addition to the SAP-based home loan savings and mortgage lending core systems the application portfolio also includes the business partner data systems, the connection to payment transactions, as well as the interface to the frontends and the data preparation and delivery for the banks dispositive systems.
• Located in Germany and India, we work closely together using agile and virtual collaboration techniques and our team’s diversity to reach our goals of continuous deployment, process improvement and internalizing engineering know how.
• As an IT Application Owner, you will closely work together with business and operation units as well as development teams to gain structural stability of the applications, compliance for technical/risk/policy related processes while managing the technical roadmap of the applications in the context of the digitalization journey of Deutsche Bank.

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

• You are responsible for the applications of the domain Home Loan Savings in cooperation with German teams.
• You accompany software development projects with a focus on system stability and the successful transfer to production as well as constantly updated application documentation.
• You ensure structural availability, stability and performance of the applications on production and test environments.
• You establish processes to ensure the lifecycle management of the respective applications.
• You ensure the application’s compliance with Deutsche Bank IT policies (i.e. security monitoring, roadmap compliance, access management-SoD, etc) including availability of all necessary application/service knowledge and documentation.
• You facilitate Disaster Recovery activities by reviewing DR plans and coordinating the execution of DR exercise for the application.
• You organize the 3rd level application support of the domain in collaboration with our external vendors and define and establish a long-term sourcing strategy for the applications with the relevant areas in TDI.
• If risks or problems arise you know with whom to find an appropriate solution.
  

Your skills and experience

• Minimum 7 years’ experience in a in a similar role. ITIL knowledge would be a plus.
• Experience in Open Source Technologies and understand the application technical architecture.
• Experience in GCP other Cloud technologies.
• Experience with tooling across the Software development Lifecycle/DevOps: Jira, HP ALM, Confluence, ServiceNow, Software Development Lifecycle etc.)
• Experience in application governance.
• Strong ability to manage unexpected events; control and deal with them quickly and efficiently. When confronted with a problem, you will need to collect information, analyze situation, point out solutions and apply them to solve perfectly in reasonable time.
• Pro-active team player with very good communication and excellent English language skills for interacting with stakeholders, German language skills are a big plus.
• Experience with working together with Agile/SCRUM teams and their methods and tooling.
• Home Loan Savings know-how and Mortgage Lending know-how are a big plus.

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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https://www.db.com/company/company.html

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We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.