ITAO – Application Owner, Associate

Overview

The Application Owner (AO) is accountable for application management of a single application or a portfolio of applications, ensuring they are enhanced and maintained in line with the Bank's IT security, risk, compliance, application strategy and service-level requirements.

What you'll do

• Facilitate Disaster Recovery activities by reviewing DR plans and coordinating DR exercises 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 and application configuration gaps.
• Manage application-related risk and compliance evaluation tasks and resolution of gaps in this area.
• Manage any IT security incidents that occur in the application.
• Plan and manage application event and database event monitoring using Bank-wide standard monitoring tools.
• Manage application capacity forecasting and monitoring.
• Plan and manage application user access related tasks.
• Handle infrastructure activities, including server procurement, server activation and server decommissioning.
• Plan for application hardware, software and licence upgrades or migrations to align with compliant platforms.
• Coordinate and collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, external stakeholders and vendors.
• Understand the overall application and root out gaps, using good questioning skills to identify root causes of requests.
• Complete detailed administrative information in self-assessments to comply with IT policies and standards.

What you'll need

• Any graduate or postgraduate degree from an accredited college or university.
• Understanding of information security controls.
• Governance and compliance experience.
• Audit experience and understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Open-minded and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage stakeholder expectations.
• Passion for sharing knowledge and best practice.
• Ability to work in virtual teams and matrix organizations.
• Proven project management and people management skills.
• Fluent English, written and verbal.
• Software technology tools: OS (UNIX and Windows), Java, .NET, databases (Oracle, Sybase, SQL) and web concepts.
• P2 level: basic IT security, risk and compliance.
• P2 level: basic systems development lifecycle.
• P3 level: experienced.
• Basic technical capabilities and infrastructure knowledge.
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows and apply critical judgment to the responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

Nice to have

• Networking knowledge.
• Vendor management experience.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.