IT Application Owner

Position Overview

The ITAO is responsible for the entire application lifecycle management of a single or multiple application instances. The ITAO must ensure that the applications are enhanced and maintained in accordance with the Bank’s IT Policy requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Engage and manage multiple main stakeholders to ensure regulatory application compliance, smooth operations, and a sound development lifecycle. (Including Business, Security, Development, Test (QA), IT Support, Finance, external Vendors and Architecture)

• Ensure the application is compliant with the companies IT policies, based on regulatory requirements

• Be accountable for a high service availability and stability, while continuously managing  projects for maintenance or enhancements of the application

• Raise tickets and priorities these for the development team as a stakeholder in an AGILE-SCRUM environment

• Support further development by ensuring availability and stability of all relevant environment stages (INT, UAT (User Acceptance Test), PROD)

• Live and facilitate a DevOps approach by setting up monitoring, configuring deployment-automation tools, preparing software packages, raising, and implementing changes, as well as managing certificates and software licenses

• Implement Configuration and Software Changes on Test and Production Environments

• Analyze Log-Files

• Security Patching (e.g., JDK, Tomcat, WebLogic)

• Fix infrastructure-related Security Issues

• Initiate Change Requests

• Certificate Renewals

• Implement Software Configuration Changes

• Monitor technical Performance of Applications (Response Times, Error Rates, Memory/Storage Usage) and engage Issues

Requirements:

• Experienced in working with multiple stakeholders. Ability to create and naturally maintain good business relationships with all stakeholders

• Particularly good presentation and communication skills in English (additional German knowledge is a plus)

• Highly organized and self-driven worker with strong analytical skills

• ITIL Processes (Incident-, Problem-, Change-Management)

• Professional with >2 years of work experience in a global IT organization. Preferable already with hands-on experience in Software Development, Governance, Project Management, Application Management or Operations

• Work experience in AGILE organizations is a plus, as well as familiarity with SCRUM

• A strong technical level of understanding for some products/technologies below is highly welcomed:

• Microservices, Docker, RedHat OpenShift

• Coding languages and Frameworks (Java, Spring Boot, NodeJs)

• Application/web servers (WebLogic Server, Tomcat)

• Database technology and scripting (Oracle)

• Unix (Logfile Analysis, Configuration)

• Communication and encryption protocols (SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), TLS (Transport Layer Security))

• Networking (firewalls, load balancers, etc.)

• Agile delivery tools (Jira & Confluence)

• Splunk or similar solutions, e.g., ELK

• CI/CD toolchain (UCD, Bitbucket, TeamCity, Artifactory).

What we`ll offer you 

• Medical care and life insurance 

• Extra days off 

• The coolest office

• Continuous learning – tech & soft skills (Pluralsight always here to help) 

• Our most fun, professional nanny for your kids to spend time with – both on site and online 

• Our personal trainer – both on site and online 

• Free TNB theatre tickets 

• Our own music band

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.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.