IT Application Owner / Release Manager - sDDA

Position Overview

DB Technology is a global team of tech specialists, spread across multiple trading hubs and tech centres. We have a strong focus on promoting technical excellence – our engineers work at the forefront of financial services innovation using cutting-edge technologies. 

Our Berlin location is our most recent addition to our global network of tech centres and growing strongly. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and to creating excellent opportunities for talented engineers and technologists. Our tech teams and business units use agile ways of working to create #GlobalHausbank solutions from our home market.
 

Payment & Cash Management IT is running a number of large-scale transformation projects in the areas of Payments, Core Banking and Liquidity Management. The projects involve renovation of the application landscape, building modular architecture, delivering new products and services, and creating foundation for new business/revenue models.

We are looking for a new member of the team with exceptional project management and communication skills who can take a challenge of being an IT Application Owner and Release Manager for a growing number of services and squads.

Your key responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate and manage all release activities, ensuring timely and successful software delivery

• Prepare and maintain release artefacts, including release implementation plans, checklist and rollout strategies.

• Improve and standardise release management processes in team

• Collaborate with development, QA, DevOps and BA teams to ensure smooth release deployment

• Automate release processes to reduce manual efforts

• Maintain release calendars, communicate release schedules and manage dependencies across teams

• Conduct post-release reviews and drive continuous improvements based on findings and lessons learned

• Ongoing enhancement and maintenance of the application including management of scope.

• Ensuring that the changes to the applications in scope are fully aligned DB standards and regulations. The main focus is to guarantee the system stability.

• Efficiently engage, manage and influence the main stakeholders, along with the related emerging risks and opportunities.

• Ensuring policy-compliance for the application. Facilitating and contributing to the audit activities.

• Managing software licenses, security certificates and contracts with service providers.

Your skills and experiences

• IT Service Management, IT Governance or IT Project Management background.

• Excellent coordination and communication skills, ability to work under pressure and manage multiple releases simultaneously

• Strong understanding of release management processes

• Project management or application owner experience.

• Ability to automate routine tasks with enterprise tools and programming languages

• ITAO will typically have a rather limited technical hands on involvement. A high-level understanding on the products/technologies below is welcomed:

  • Databases: mainly Oracle

  • Management of security certificates.

  • Unix servers administration

  • Microservices and SOA

  • Communication and encryption protocols (mainly HTTP(S), SSL)

  • Networking (firewalls, load balancers, etc)

  • High Availability Architecture

  • Public cloud experience (preferably GCP)

What we offer

We provide you with a comprehensive portfolio of benefits and offerings to support both, your private and professional needs.

• Emotionally and mentally balanced
  A positive mind helps us master the challenges of everyday life – both professionally and privately. We offer consultation in difficult life situations as well as mental health awareness trainings.

• Physically thriving
  We support you in staying physically fit through an offering to maintain personal health and a professional environment. You can benefit from health check-ups; vaccination drives as well as advice on healthy living and nutrition.

• Socially connected
  Networking opens up new perspectives, helps us thrive professionally and personally as well as strengthens our self-confidence and well-being. You can benefit from PME family service, FitnessCenter Job, flexible working (e.g parttime, hybrid working, job tandem) as well as an extensive culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.

• Financially secure
  We provide you with financial security not only during your active career but also for the future. You can benefit from offerings such as pension plans, banking services, company bicycle or “Deutschlandticket”

In case of any recruitment related questions, please get in touch with Sofya Veselkova.

Contact: Sofya Veselkova +49(69)91042991

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