IT Application Owner

Job Description:

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.