Home Loan Savings - IT Application Owner

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.
• We are now building a team in India to work closely with the existing team in Germany, leveraging virtual collaboration techniques and the diversity of our team to achieve our goals of continuous delivery, process improvement, and internalization of technical expertise.
• As an Application Owner you will closely work together with business and operation units as well as development team 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 Deutsche Banks digitalization journey.

Your key responsibilities

• Manages and maintains the application ensuring compliance with applicable IT policies & procedures with specific consideration to IT Management and Information Security policies.
• Is responsible for setting up various environments for development, testing and production.
• Is responsible for implementing and upgrading system hardware and application software.
• Leads the discussions with Business for new requirements.
• Leads the discussion with Vendor regarding the product implementation, customization, and enhancements.
• Is responsible for delivery of the application releases, defect fixes.
• Assists more junior members of the team and controls their work where applicable.
• Enterprise IT governance, Information security, Information content publishing, Specialist advice, Knowledge management, Business risk management, Continuity management, Data management, Requirements definition and management, Availability management, Service acceptance, Configuration management, Asset management, change management, security administration, Application support, Problem management, Incident management, Quality assurance, Confirmation review, Relationship management.

Task Breakdown

• Ensure the application compliance with Deutsche Bank IT policies & procedures.
• On-board application onto Deutsche Banks IT Risk and control related tools.
• Interface with Internal and External Auditors for IT Audits.
• Identify IT Risk and control related gaps based on the knowledge of application and Deutsche Bank policies.
• Remediate IT related Audit Findings and IT Risk and control related issues.
• Ensure availability of application documentation as per Deutsche Banks QMS process.
• Perform the strategic application planning, application lifecycle management.
• Initiate and manage technical projects to deliver the required Business services and meet services levels.
• Prepare and review effort estimates.
• Prepare project plan, manage application development and delivery.
• Ensure the smooth transition of the applications into production.
• Provide application expert service/ Level 3 Production support services.
• Co-ordinate with IT Vendor for application maintenance and code releases.
• Manage delivery costs, software licenses and vendor contracts.

Your skills and experience

• Minimum 8 years experience in a in a similar role. ITIL knowledge would be a plus.
• Basic experience in database, mid-range technical stack and other open-source skills is a must.
• 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 a big plus
• Experience in GCP or other Cloud technologies is good to have.
• Knowledge of system design, development, implementation, and user support principles and practices.
• Familiarity with Project management principles.
• Knowledge of Application Architectures and fundamental principles of software interfaces.
• Knowledge of IT Risk and Controls, IT Security.
• COBIT/ ITIL/PMP/ CRISC/ CSSLP/ CISSP/ equivalent certifications preferred.

People Skill

• End to end ownership in driving team towards delivery.
• Performance and productivity orientation to promote high-quality results.
• Profound analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.
• Good communication and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Pro-active and flexible working approach.
• Ability to think outside the box to resolve problems, efficient and well organized, detail oriented.