ITAO, Associate

• The ITAO is the function responsible on the application lifecycle governance.
• The applicant will act as an IT Application Owner for applications in the TAS Function
• 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 to 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.

Your key responsibilities

• Monitoring Portfolio and align with them on deliveries and strategy of NARs.
• Make sure TAS Applications portfolio is compliant, considering tasks and activities coming from: Control Workbench, and other requirements from the stakeholders.
• Own 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.
• Ability to manage the L3 activities in-terms of application fixes.
• Co-ordinate Essential Maintenance Change management process
• Contributes to Go Live transitions.

Your skills and experience

• Desirable experience 7+ plus years in the IT industry
• Prior ITAO experience is preferrable.
• Good understanding of the SDLCs and current IT trends in managing Projects.
• .Net/Java technical background is highly desirable with Database experience.
• IT Risk Frameworks experience is desirable.
• Banking / Financial industry Exposure is a plus.
• Project/Development/ Release/Support Management/ Technology Infrastructure management
• Digital Assets knowledge would be a plus.
• Using initiative to proactively prioritize workload.
• 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 set expectation with clear milestones and target dates to achieve.
• Ability to work in virtual teams and in weak matrix organizations across geographic locations.
• Fluent in English (written/verbal)
• Team Player
• Educated to degree level or above.
• Experience of working in a dynamic collaborative environment