IT Application Owner Specialist, VP

• The ITAO is the function responsible on the application lifecycle governance.
• The applicant must have advanced IT risk management skills and must promote different service delivery approaches that best suit IT applications life cycle and contribute to the implementation of policy and strategy.
• The ITAO Specialist responsibilities covers identifying the gaps in the current infrastructure solutions and where industry innovations are along the maturity lifecycle, choosing the right balance between compliance requirements and delivery pace.The IT Application Owner (ITAO) specialist is accountable for the Application Management of portfolio of applications. They have to ensure that the application(s) are enhanced and maintained in accordance to the Banks IT Security Risk and Compliance requirements.
• The ITAO specialist should work with relevant stakeholders of the application and ensure that to effectively identify and manage risks, issues, compliance gaps in line with DB IT risk and compliance policies and also the road map of the business stakeholders. They formulate the remediation of audit points and self-identified issues that increase the banks risk and are responsible for application documentation and knowledge management. The ITAO specialist advises and coaches teams on thegovernance of the IT platform reliability and resilience and is a recognized contributor to internal and external forums, fostering a passion for technology risk management.
• The ITAO specialist brings in automation into current manual processes, drive the initiatives independently. Have hands on experience in Java and should be able to review codes and work with Dev team members to build and support applications as full stack developer wherever required.

Your key responsibilities

• Monitoring Portfolio and align with them on deliveries and strategy of NARs.
• Make sure Applications portfolio is compliant, considering tasks and activities coming from: Control Workbench, and other requirements from the stakeholders.
• Lead Risk and compliance process for the set of application that applicant 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.
• Co-ordinate Essential Maintenance Change management process
• Contributes to Go Live transitions.
• Prepare project-related documentation Confluence, JIRA updates, provide support on compliance and audit checking Project relevant documentation, ensure compliance and audit policies are strictly followed.
• Ability to manage the L3 activities in-terms of application fixes, Build and support applications as full stack developer - Java, React, angular, micro services, Sql.
• Should be able to review code and help team in fixing issues.
• Ability to bring in strong Engineering culture within the team
• Functional expertise working in a financial bank domain would be huge benefit.

Your skills and experience

• Desirable experience at least 12-14+ plus years in the IT industry
• Prior ITAO experience is preferrable.
• Strong understanding of the SDLCs and current IT trends in managing Projects.
• Java technical background is highly desirable with Database experience.
• IT Risk Frameworks experience is needed.
• Banking Financial industry Exposure is a plus.
• Business Risk audits experience is needed.
• Project/Development/ Release/Support Management/ Technology Infrastructure management , and Digital Assets knowledge would be a plus.
• Hands on experience with technologies such as Java , SpringBoot, React JS, Kafka, Cloud, DevOps , Unit testing tools like Junit.
• Strong agile skills with running app Dev , Dev Ops , ITAO and RTB squads.
• Knowledge on build tools Jenkins , Git , TeamCity.
• Strong team player who also can work under pressure, independently and proactively while balancing competing priorities to achieve results on complex new development and integrations.