ITAO, AS

Deutsche Bank AG; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best in class leave policy

Gender neutral parental leaves

Education sponsorship for industryCert

Job summary

Deutsche Bank AG in Bengaluru seeks an experienced Risk and Control Specialist to partner with the CIO and IT owners, ensuring IT risk controls across the SDLC. You will collaborate with risk, CSO, and infrastructure teams to drive compliance and effective control execution.

The role emphasizes ITAO expertise, governance, and the ability to translate risk requirements into actionable IT solutions within a global banking environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in IT risk technology within financial services.
• Strong ITAO knowledge and IT risk management skills.
• Experience with SDLC, governance, and regulatory controls.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate IT risk and control activities with IT owners and stakeholders.
• Support automation of risk tasks and CTO reporting.
• Contribute to policy compliance, control execution, and audit readiness.

Skills

IT Risk Management

ITAO knowledge

PowerShell

Excel VBA

REST API

Communication skills

GCP Cloud

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Job Title and Location

Job Description: Job Title: ITAO, AS Location: Bangalore, India Corporate Title: AS Role Description

Role Description

The Risk and Control Enablement specialist will support the domain CIO, CIO-1, IT Application Owners, and ERT CTO in managing technology risks, including Identity and Access Management, Application Code Security, and standard SDLC tools. The role will coordinate ITAO activities across IT, Information security, and audit programs. In collaboration with DWS Risk and Control and the DWS CSO team, the RnC specialist will clarify control owner and stakeholder requirements, coordinate required approvals, and implement outcomes in Control Workbench or the relevant JIRA project. The successful candidate is expected to have at least 7-10 years’ experience in IT, preferably with Asset Management Business Applications and Processes. Candidates should possess strong IT Application Owner (ITAO) knowledge and IT risk management skills, with the ability to apply appropriate delivery approaches, understand their impact on the application lifecycle, and support their adoption in line with best practices. The Risk and Control Specialist should have a strong understanding of development methodologies and IT policies and apply this knowledge to support effective control execution in line with the bank’s risk appetite. The Risk and Control Specialist support application safety, security, and compliance with regulations, policies, and standards while helping improve operational readiness and maintainability for changes delivered into production. Engage with the ITAO community, CSO information security specialists, and infrastructure teams such as ORR and SDLC to support effective risk and control management.

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

• The Risk and Control Specialist is responsible for coordinating with application owners and technology stakeholders to track IT metrics compliance, monitor control gaps, support remediation activities, and provide a forward-looking view of technology risks, audit actions, and regulatory obligations
• Drive/Support the automation process of risk task management and CTO end-to-end reporting
• Help translating the DWS/TDI requirements to a system-based IT solution to converge to overall strategic objectives
• Support the CTO level reporting’s to determine key data input, outputs and functional processes from a front to back perspective
• Determine the golden sources for the information, investigate the ways of automation
• Identify processes suitable for automation and support their delivery

Enterprise IT & IS Governance

• Coordinate with application owners to track IT metrics compliance, identify areas requiring attention, and provide a forward-looking view of risks, control gaps, and remediation actions to support adherence to organizational obligations, policies, standards, and overall strategy
• Coordinate with Application Owners, ITAOs, CSO, infrastructure, SDLC, and risk/control stakeholders to support effective technology risk and control management
• Track IT metrics compliance across applications, identify non-compliant or deteriorating areas, and provide timely follow-up with responsible owners
• Support governance over key technology risk areas including Identity and Access Management, SDLC controls, application security, operational resilience, and infrastructure compliance
• Monitor open risk, audit, control, and regulatory actions, ensuring timely updates, evidence collection, and closure readiness
• Assist application owners in understanding policy requirements, control expectations, and actions required to maintain compliance
• Prepare and support regular Risk and Control reporting for CTO LT members, and Information Security stakeholders through dashboards, metrics, and timely status updates
• Support internal and external audit activities by coordinating evidence, tracking management actions, and following up on remediation commitments

Your skills and experience

• Experience working in the financial industry (7+ years) and in particular risk technology
• Broad understanding of data and its usage within financial industry including reference, trade, market and risk data
• Ability to assimilate large quantities of information in short periods of time
• Understanding and experience of the SDLC
• Hands on experience of script languages (PowerShell), Excel VBA, Rest API
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to relay complex information to a variety of end users from developers to senior managing directors within the business
• Proactively, initiate, develop and maintain effective working relationships with team members and the business
• Self-driven behaviour
• GCP-Cloud foundation knowledge

Business Competencies

• Change Leadership (Experienced)
• Managing Security (Experienced)
• Customer/stakeholder Relationship Management (Experienced)

Technical Competencies

• ITAO and/or DevOps background preferably

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

Please visit our company website for further information: https://www.db.com/company/company.htmlWe at DWS are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, one that embraces dialogue and diverse views, and treats everyone fairly to drive a high-performance culture.The value we create for our clients and investors is based on our ability to bring together various perspectives from all over the world and from different backgrounds.It is our experience that teams perform better and deliver improved outcomes when they are able to incorporate a wide range of perspectives.We call this #ConnectingTheDots.At DWS, we’re capturing the opportunities of tomorrow.You can be part of a leading, client-committed, global Asset Manager, making an impact on individuals, communities and the world.In an ever-changing landscape, markets face a new set of pressures - but here, we see the opportunity in challenges.Opportunity to invest responsibly; to create change.Whether it’s collaborating to discover innovative solutions or exploring your curiosity to develop new skills - at DWS, we support you to achieve your goals.As the world continues to evolve, we do too.Join us, and you can shape our transformation.You can collaborate with industry thought-leaders, gaining new and diverse perspectives.You can share ideas and be yourself.You can drive innovative and sustainable solutions that influence markets and behaviours for the better.This is your chance to lead an extraordinary career.This is your chance to invest in your future.