Position Overview

Job Title: ITAO, AVP

Location: Bangalore, India

Corporate Title: AVP

Job Description

Role Description

The successful candidate is expected to have at least 12-15 years experience in IT, preferably with Asset Management Business Applications and Processes.
The IT Application Owner (ITAO) has sound IT risk management skills. They follow one of several possible service delivery approaches, acknowledge interference with the IT application's life cycle and assist with incorporating the adopted approach into best practice.
The focus is on applications moving onto cloud. Here you support tracking of the application control status and help application dev-teams with practical advice.
Make sure that all steps in Identity & Access Management cycle (on-boarding, recertification, off-boarding) are compliant against DB Policies and application is on-boarded to central tools.
The ITAO is aware of the gap in the current infrastructure solutions and where industry innovations are along the maturity lifecycle. They work with application stakeholders to improve the infrastructure, ensuring compliance with the technical roadmap.
The ITAO has a sound knowledge of development methodologies and the IT policies necessary to perform effectively in the organisation, aligned to the bank's appetite for risk.
The ITAO acts to improve safety and security of the application, compliance with regulations, policies and standards, enhance operational readiness, and ease maintenance of the environment for delivering change into production.
The ITAO supports the bank's audit function in the remediation of audit points and self-identified issues in order to reduce risk.
The ITAO is responsible for producing and maintaining accurate documentation on compliance with methodologies, IT policies and IT security requirements.
ITAOs will also be responsible for Application Decommissioning
ITAOs will be driving activity that helps incidents reduction against an application
Support compliance on all steps of SDLC process and make sure that all SDLC controls are green.
You are consulting with the ITAO community, information security specialists in our CSO organization, and other infrastructure teams like the ORR/SDLC teams.

What We'll Offer You

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy

Best in class leave policy
Gender neutral parental leaves
100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
Accident and Term life Insurance
Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your Key Responsibilities

Enterprise IT Governance: Responsible for review of current and proposed information systems for compliance with the organisation's obligations (including legislation, regulatory, contractual and agreed standards/policies) and adherence to overall strategy
Information security: Communicates information security risks and issues to business managers and others. Performs basic risk assessments for small information systems. Contributes to vulnerability assessments. Applies and maintains specific security controls as required by organisational policy and local risk assessments. Investigates suspected attacks. Responds to security breaches in line with security policy and records the incidents and action taken.
Information content publishing: Understands technical publication concepts, tools and methods and the way in which these are used. Uses agreed procedures to publish content. Obtains and analyses usage data and presents it effectively. Understands, and applies principles of usability and accessibility to published information.
Business risk management: Investigates and reports on hazards and potential risk events within a specific function or business area.
Continuity management: Implements and contributes to the development of a continuity management plan. Coordinates the assessment of risks to the availability, integrity and confidentiality of systems that support critical business processes. Coordinates the planning, designing, and testing of maintenance procedures and contingency plans.
Data management: Assists in providing accessibility, retrievability, security and protection of data in an ethical manner.
Methods and tools: Provide support on the use of existing method and tools. Configures methods and tools within a known context. Creates and updates the documentation of methods and tools

Overall Responsibilities Summary

Make sure that all critical activities in application are monitored and logs are reviewed.
Ensure appropriate controls onboarded and implemented where appropriate.
Make sure that all steps in Identity & Access Management cycle (on-boarding, recertification, off-boarding) are compliant against DB Policies and application is on-boarded to central tools.
Manage Internal and external application audits and Audit issue remediation activities.
Completion of regular/recurring assessments
Timely response to audit & regulatory requirements with evidence, were compliant.
Make sure that infrastructure is compliant and has up-to-date patches.
Plan for Application Hardware / Software / License upgrades or migration activities to align to the compliant platforms.
Keep up-to-date DR Test Plan and manage regular DR Tests
Manage application capacity forecasting and monitoring.
Manage any IT Security incidents that may occur in the application.
Support compliance on all steps of SDLC process and make sure that all SDLC controls are green.
Application Decommissioning
Drive incidents reduction against an application
Planning/Organizing: Able to manage work but also to make the estimate, scheme in detail, work on deployment plans and manage deadlines.
Manage the technical roadmap of the application (technology roadmap compliance), estimate/budget capacity needed.
Expertise in Planning and execution of Releases, Changes, Patches.
Exposure of handling L3 role, incident analysis, patch preparation and implementation.
Skilled individual to interact with L2 teams for incident and problem management cases.

Your Skills And Experience

Degree-level IT and/or information security qualification, or equivalent experience in
Information Security and IT Security
Experience in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) - from idea to production to understand our customer journey, these mostly application owners, business ISOs and development teams
GCP-Cloud foundation knowledge
General understanding of current security industry standards, best practices, and/or frameworks i.e.: NIST, ENISA, ISO27001, OWASP
Problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to oversee complex processes
Ability to educate a technical and non-technical audience about various security measure
Excellent communications skills and very service oriented and customer friendly behaviour even in stressful situations
Self-driven behaviour
Fluent in English (written/verbal)

Education / Certification / Experience

Degree-level IT and/or information security qualification, or equivalent experience in
Information Security and IT Security
General understanding of current security industry standards, best practices, and/or frameworks i.e.: NIST, ENISA, ISO27001, OWASP
Problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to oversee complex processes
Ability to educate a technical and non-technical audience about various security measure

Preferable

Knowledge of information security tools e.g., security scan and testing tools
Understanding of cloud engineering and native security features to support the migration path for applications onto the cloud environment
Firm understanding of DevSecOps and the banks shift left agenda to integrate security in the software development lifecycle as earliest as possible.
ISO or ITAO certification (for internals only)

Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

How We'll Support You

Training and development to help you excel in your career
Coaching and support from experts in your team
A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About Us And Our Teams

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https://www.db.com/company/company.html

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.