Job Title: Release Manager, VP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• Drive functional and technical issues to resolution within the trade finance domain as primary role Drive functional and technical issues to resolution within the TST domain as secondary role in the absence of the APAC or EMEA regional domain leads. Drive resolution of user request supports, troubleshooting functional, application, and infrastructure incidents in the bank environment. Drive delivery of identified initiatives to automate manual work, application and infrastructure monitoring improvements and platform hygiene.
• Deutsche Bank’s Corporate Bank division is a leading provider of cash management, trade finance and securities finance. We complete green-field projects that deliver the best Corporate Bank - Securities Services products in the world. Our team is diverse, international, and driven by shared focus on clean code and valued delivery.  At every level, agile minds are rewarded with competitive pay, support, and opportunities to excel. 

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

• Maintain and improve the release process. Introduce quality toll gates to capture issues early to ensure defect leakage to final phase of testing is within the threshold. This would mean, healthy push back, as appropriate, if the release quality is compromised.
• Improve the SDLC operating model, in discussion with the tribes and leads, that will help to maintain the 2-week release cadence across the stack.
• Manage release scope, review platform and testing concentration, and ensure the changes to production are vetted with respect to risk exposure via service validation and testing, fulfilling delivery standards/requirements, production stability and efficiencies.
• Supervise the promotion path and deployment process, adhere to bank’s controls for promotion of the change from UAT to production and DR environments.
• Drive automation and simplification of deployment and packaging processes (tools, scripts, production support instructions and post release validations). Use SAFe agile methodology to create backlog for improvement and explain the benefit hypothesis in the backlog prioritisation forum.
• Communicate and coordinate release schedule and scope across all stakeholders.
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations.
• Ensure compliance to banks application and release controls, negotiate the process and evidencing requirement with bank’s central change management function.
• Ensure compliance to the IT internal / external audit, as well as to Regulatory / Business Group Audit.

Your skills and experience

• Technical background and good knowledge of Unix and Windows operating systems and databases.
• Experience in banking domain. Risk knowledge is ideal.
• Experience as a release and deployment specialist across complex and mission critical platforms.
• Good technical understanding of platforms and F2B architecture.
• Good understanding of supporting infrastructure for the application platform.
• Scripting for Windows (Perl, Python, .bat files).
• Good understanding of full SDLC and associated supporting tools.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, fluent verbal and written English.
• Good analytical skills, flexibility in problem solving.
• Good project management and coordination skills

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.htm

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.