Architecture Information Management Team Member, AVP

Role Description

• Data Governance Specialist executing, supporting, documenting and enhancing processes relating to governance of Group Architecture Data.
• Work includes analysis, report generation, stakeholder outreach, architecture leadership reporting and forming proposals for improvements.
• Documentation of and oversight of other regulatory processes being driven by Group Architecture Tooling.
• Architecture Tooling Support & Training

Your key responsibilities

• Responsible for many of the BAU processes underpinning governance of several key data types within Group Architecture. (Including, but not limited to, Dataflows, Process and Application Capabilities). Working to raise levels of compliance across the Deutsche Bank application portfolio relating to completion and recertification of this architecture data.
• Key Contributor to ongoing work to review and enhance documentation of these processes. This could include analysis of commonalities between applications and how data is registered in Architecture Tooling as well as identifying exceptions.
• Active work with Stakeholders to support them to maintain compliance, including the generation of reports and direct support and outreach where necessary. Onboarding to and configuration of interfaces with standard Deutsche Bank control frameworks to support this work.
• Constantly seeking to improve processes, proactively suggesting improvements to the relevant frameworks and processes to improve efficiency in this area.
• Creation of regular reports and analysis to Architecture Leadership relating to Architecture Data Governance. This includes analysis to explain concerns or anomalies and to propose suggestions related to any common issues in the data.
• Strict adherence to any processes and policies including clear reporting/escalation where needed.
• Working with a variety of stakeholders both internal and external to Group Architecture. Ability to manage a stakeholder queries, to independently gather and understand requirements.
• Specific responsibility for processes and reporting underpinning the Payments Application Framework Initiative. Contribution to sustainability work seeking to improve automation and efficiency.
• Contribute to reviewing and enhancing documentation relating to other regulatory processes supported by Group Architecture tooling. This includes ongoing oversight of usage maintained and onboarding of new stakeholders.
• Responsible for support related to Architecture Tooling. This includes first line stakeholder support for both issues and queries. Providing basic issue resolution where possible or passing onto level 2/3 support teams as appropriate. An important part of this is handling usage queries for example those related to Self Service Reporting functionality.
• Occasional online training for users as needed to support specific user groups or a particular Architecture Governance initiative.

Your skills and experience

The person required for the above position should have the following profile:

• Experience within Group Architecture or similar technical environment.
• Experience of both user query engagement and driving compliance activities with stakeholders.
• Experience documenting governance (or other formal) process
• Experience in an environment where both following procedures and contributing to governance process improvements are key.
• Strong communication and inter-personal skills. Comfortable working with a wide variety of Stakeholders.
• Analytical capabilities and logical thinking, excellent problem solving skills.
• Detailed individual who takes pride in well presented work and accurate task completion.
• Excel experience creating and reviewing reports to ensure clear communication to stakeholders.
• Basic SQL Skills to support multi table adhoc queries and investigate issues would be advantageous.
• Education: University degree or equivalent professional experience
• Language skills: fluency in English (good written English)