The applicant will act as an IT Application Owner for applications in the CIB Domain. The IT Application Owner (ITAO) is accountable for the Application Management of portfolio of applications. The ITAO has to ensure that the application(s) are enhanced and maintained in accordance with the Banks IT Security Risk and Compliance requirements. The Technology Roadmap within DB and the Business plans. The ITAO should work with relevant stakeholders of the application and ensure that he or she effectively identifies and manages risks, issues, compliance gaps in line with DB IT risk and compliance policies and also the road map of the business stakeholders. Service levels need to be evolved and met based on business needs. The ITAO need to proactively escalate with relevant stake holders to ensure that there is no slippage in meeting IT Risk, compliance and audit goals for the application, portfolio of applications. This role expects the person to have some experience in Project Management. The ITAO is also expected to take part in the Annual budget planning exercise with respect to his or her application along with relevant stakeholders if necessary. Your key responsibilities The Application Owner is in charge of a broad set of duties. On one hand an ITAO has a management responsibility for a set of application within the portfolio. On the other hand, the ITAO is requested to provide detailed administrative information in self-assessments to comply with the IT Policies & Standards. The following are typically some of the tasks for which an ITAO is responsible for: Lead Risk and compliance process for the set of application that he or she is the IT owner. Facilitate Disaster Recovery activities by reviewing DR plans and coordinating the execution of DR exercise for the application. Manage Internal and external application audits and Audit issue remediation activities. Manage remediation of gaps in application lifecycle management activities such as Account recertification, remediation of Application configuration gaps etc. Manage application related Risk and Compliance Evaluation tasks and resolution of gaps in this area. Manage any IT Security incidents that may occur in the application. Plan and Manage Application events and Database Events monitoring using Bank wide standard monitoring tools. Manage application capacity forecasting and monitoring. Plan and manage Application user access related tasks. Plan for Application Hardware / Software / License upgrades or migration activities to align to the compliant platforms. Your skills and experience: Maintenance & Monitoring of Application/Environment Access levels for all the relevant teams in the Application life cycle phases Ongoing enhancement and maintenance of an application including management of scope & on-time Upgrades of Environments. Conducting strategic planning for the application & environments. Identifying and managing technical projects necessary to ensure required and established service levels are maintained. Managing strategic capacity, consumption and performance management (Forecast and management based on business plans). Ensuring policy-compliance for dB RAMM, SOX, ASG, ISP, Audit. Managing software licenses, security certificates and contracts with service providers. Manage technical projects necessary to ensure required and established service levels are maintained. Ensuring availability of all necessary application/service knowledge and documentation and are timely updated. Collaborating with various stakeholders including the Audit and Risk leads, Application vendors, Development, Deployment, DevOps, Testing and Production Management team members and project & program managers Steering, overseeing and delivering the design and development of industrialization solutions into the production support teams for operations and monitoring. Performing reviews for all technical changes in close collaboration with Development/DevOps team representatives (both business and IT). Assisting with DevOps objectives of configuration/monitoring/packaging/deployment automations. Identifying, documenting and communicating risks and issues discovered during delivery cycles. Participating in meetings with business and development, production support teams on product enhancement and development planning calls, evaluate and coordinate production incidents escalations. Coordinate with Risk and Control Program & Transformation lead to ensure all the necessary RnC items are addressed on time with resolutions there by mainlining the Application and Infra health status Green. Good understanding of the SDLCs and current IT trends in managing Projects. Excellent communication and influencing skills across various levels of stakeholders. Open minded and willing to learn business and technology. Ability to work in fast paced environment with multiple requirements. Ability to manage the expectations of stakeholders and also set expectation with clear milestones and target dates to achieve. Passion about sharing knowledge and best practice. Ability to work in virtual teams and in weak matrix organizations across geographic locations. Project management skills are must. Fluent in English (written/verbal) Ability to mentor juniors. Team Player Specific Technology Skills Minimum 7-9 years of work experience in IT Knowledge about ITIL framework. Certification will be a plus. Experience in Banking and Finance domain would be an advantage. 2-3 years project management or application owner experience Experience with SDLC framework Database knowledge (Oracle, Hadoop, MongoDB etc.) Experience with audit and compliance Knowledge about Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) or any cloud certification Understanding of Continuous Integration and Deployment DevOps Tools such as GIT, Maven, Artifactory, Jenkins, Teamcity, Puppet, BladeLogic etc., Experienced with: Java Server Technology, ANT, continuous integration and dev ops tools will be a plus. Ability to work on tight deadlines. Good communication and excellent interpersonal skills Experience with working multiple stakeholders with excellent coordination skills. Experience in creating solution roadmaps and plan with periodic governance status reporting and monitoring.
