IT Application Owner Lead, Risk & Control Specialist, VP

Job Title: IT Application Owner Lead, Risk & Control Specialist - VP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• The ITAO Lead is a critical IT role with overall accountability and ownership of the applications and infrastructure instances. The role's key responsibility is to ensure application’s IT Governance is in line with the bank’s policies, procedures and standards. The ITAO Lead must manage and maintain the applications, ensuring compliance with applicable IT policies & procedures with specific consideration to Information Security guidelines/policies.
• The Risk and Control Specialist supports all aspects of the Audit lifecycle.  This includes
• Ensuring all identified risks (Audit Findings) are proactively managed and closed on time and
• Identifying and assessing risks (Self-identified issues) and their impact, planning remediation actions, and monitoring and reporting their progress. 

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

• Supports the ITAO function across foundational platform portfolio.
• Has a good understanding of development methodologies and IT policies and procedures, with a focus on IT management and information security.
• Ensures the compliance with Deutsche Bank IT policies & procedures of all the applications in foundational platform.
• Implements the processes to improve safety and security of the applications, compliance with regulations, policies and standards and enhance operational readiness.
• Assists the bank’s audit function in the remediation of audit points and self-identified issues to reduce risk.
• On-boards the applications onto Deutsche Bank’s IT Risk and control related tools. Interface with Internal and External Auditors for IT Audits.
• Applications and infrastructure offboarding
• Controls IT assets ensuring that administration of the acquisition, storage and disposal of the assets is carried out as per the bank’s processes.
• Remediates IT related Audit Findings and IT Risk and control related issues.
• Facilitates open communications and discussions among the stakeholders with the stakeholder engagement strategies and plans. 
• Manages the technical roadmap of the application
• Plans/conducts/supports the disaster recovery tests.
• Provides the trainings and facilitate the knowledge sharing within the ITAO function.
• Coordinates with external vendors and service providers to ensure seamless support and maintenance.
• Manages findings’ life-cycle events (e.g. closures, risk downgrades, risk acceptances) with finding owners/ risk leads to ensure they are addressed, appropriately documented within agreed timelines.
• Collaborates with internal teams to educate and promote Risk and Controls standards, Finding Management Procedure and Central Function checklists to ensure successful handling of life cycle events
• Understands and advocates DB Policies, Procedures, Controls and standards, Finding Management Procedure and Central Function checklists to ensure successful remediation and handling of life cycle events with stakeholder
• Coordinates with Portfolio Owners/risk leads for the upcoming audit schedule and request if any potential SIIs are to be raised for the audit scope.
• Participates in Risk and Control meetings with Portfolio owners / CIO-1 to track and review the status of remediation against risk topics
• Ensures management transparency by way of timely risk reporting and proactive engagement and representing controls team at different governing forums.
• Identifies and evaluates potential areas of non-compliance or risk, assessing impact, probability and present self-identified findings and proposals for risk mitigation

Your skills and experience

• Desirable experience at least 12-14+ plus years in the IT industry
• Strong people management, mentoring to other peers also leadership skills who also can work under pressure, independently and proactively while balancing competing priorities to achieve results on complex new development and integrations.
• Prior ITAO experience is preferrable.
• Strong understanding of the SDLC and current IT trends in managing Projects.
• IT Risk Frameworks experience is needed.
• Banking / Financial industry Exposure is a plus.
• Business Risk audits experience is needed.
• Project/Development/ Release/Support Management and Technology Infrastructure management would be a plus.
• Strong people management and mentoring skills, along with leadership abilities. Capable of working under pressure, independently, and proactively while balancing competing priorities to achieve results in complex new development and integrations. Experience of working together with Agile/Scrum teams and their methods.
• Tools Used: Jira, Confluence & other server monitoring tools.
• Experience in working in IT Risk, IT Service Management, Run the Bank and Support domains.

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

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.