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Location: Pune - Business Bay, India
Type: Full-time
Source: Workday

Description

Job Description:

Job Title: IT Application Owner (ITAO)

Location: Pune, India

Corporate Title: AS

Role Description

The IT Application Owner (ITAO) has end-to-end responsibility for business-critical applications, ensuring their lifecycle, stability, compliance, and operational readiness align with Bank policies, regulatory requirements, and business objectives.
Working across business, technology, risk, audit, and vendor teams, the ITAO maintains service availability, manages risks, drives remediation, and supports safe production changes.
The role proactively manages risks, compliance gaps, incidents, audit findings, lifecycle obligations, capacity, and dependencies, with timely escalation, clear evidence, and accurate reporting.

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

Own assigned applications end to end, ensuring lifecycle, stability, availability, performance, security, compliance, and operational readiness.
Manage technology risks, controls, audits, regulatory findings, vulnerabilities, patching, access, licensing, and remediation through timely closure.
Lead resilience activities, including disaster recovery planning, testing, incident and problem management, capacity forecasting, and production readiness.
Coordinate maintenance, upgrades, migrations, decommissioning, certificates, renewals, and technology roadmap delivery.
Partner with business, engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, security, architecture, risk, audit, finance, and vendors to deliver safe production changes.
Define non-functional requirements, monitoring, automation, deployment, testing, support models, and operational evidence.
Maintain accurate documentation, governance reporting, compliance evidence, roadmaps, and management updates; escalate risks and delays promptly.
Support budget, cost, capacity, and work-prioritization planning while adopting automation and DevSecOps practices to improve resilience and efficiency.
Maintain and automate the BAU work specifically to improve the compliance posture and vulnerability management work.

Your skills and experience

5–10 years’ experience in application ownership, IT governance, risk and controls, service management, or technology delivery, aligned to the hiring level.
Strong knowledge of application lifecycle management, SDLC controls, information security, audit remediation, and ITIL processes.
Proven ability to coordinate business, technology, security, risk, audit, infrastructure, and vendor stakeholders.
Experience in project planning, prioritisation, roadmap delivery, dependency management, and governance reporting.
Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and controlled production change.
Banking or other regulated-industry experience is preferred; relevant ITIL, cloud, security, risk, Agile, or project-management certifications are desirable.

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

Please visit our company website for further information:

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

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.

Skills

AgileScrumDevOpsComplianceITIL

IT Application Owner (ITAO), AS

Description

Job Description:

Own assigned applications end to end, ensuring lifecycle, stability, availability, performance, security, compliance, and operational readiness.

Manage technology risks, controls, audits, regulatory findings, vulnerabilities, patching, access, licensing, and remediation through timely closure.

Lead resilience activities, including disaster recovery planning, testing, incident and problem management, capacity forecasting, and production readiness.

Coordinate maintenance, upgrades, migrations, decommissioning, certificates, renewals, and technology roadmap delivery.

Partner with business, engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, security, architecture, risk, audit, finance, and vendors to deliver safe production changes.

Define non-functional requirements, monitoring, automation, deployment, testing, support models, and operational evidence.

Maintain accurate documentation, governance reporting, compliance evidence, roadmaps, and management updates; escalate risks and delays promptly.

Support budget, cost, capacity, and work-prioritization planning while adopting automation and DevSecOps practices to improve resilience and efficiency.

Maintain and automate the BAU work specifically to improve the compliance posture and vulnerability management work.

5–10 years’ experience in application ownership, IT governance, risk and controls, service management, or technology delivery, aligned to the hiring level.

Strong knowledge of application lifecycle management, SDLC controls, information security, audit remediation, and ITIL processes.

Proven ability to coordinate business, technology, security, risk, audit, infrastructure, and vendor stakeholders.

Experience in project planning, prioritisation, roadmap delivery, dependency management, and governance reporting.

Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and controlled production change.

Banking or other regulated-industry experience is preferred; relevant ITIL, cloud, security, risk, Agile, or project-management certifications are desirable.

Skills