Production Specialist, AVP

Job Title: Production Specialist Corporate Title: AVP Location: Pune, India Role Description Our organization within Deutsche Bank is AFC Production Services. We are responsible for providing technical L2 application support for business applications. The AFC (Anti-Financial Crime) line of business has a current portfolio of 30+ applications. The organization is in process of transforming itself using Google Cloud and many new technology offerings. As an Assistant Vice President, your role will include hands-on production support and be actively involved in technical issues resolution across multiple applications. You will also be working as application lead and will be responsible for technical & operational processes for all application you support. 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 Provide technical support by handling and consulting on BAU, Incidents/emails/alerts for the respective applications. Perform post-mortem, root cause analysis using ITIL standards of Incident Management, Service Request fulfilment, Change Management, Knowledge Management, and Problem Management. Manage regional L2 team and vendor teams supporting the application. Ensure the team is up to speed and picks up the support duties. Build up technical subject matter expertise on the applications being supported including business flows, application architecture, and hardware configuration. Define and track KPIs, SLAs and operational metrics to measure and improve application stability and performance. Conduct real time monitoring to ensure application SLAs are achieved and maximum application availability (up time) using an array of monitoring tools. Build and maintain effective and productive relationships with the stakeholders in business, development, infrastructure, and third-party systems / data providers & vendors. Assist in the process to approve application code releases as well as tasks assigned to support to perform. Keep key stakeholders informed using communication templates. Approach support with a proactive attitude, desire to seek root cause, in-depth analysis, and strive to reduce inefficiencies and manual efforts. Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering technical upskill and knowledge sharing. Provide strategic input into disaster recovery planning, failover strategies and business continuity procedures Collaborate and deliver on initiatives and install these initiatives to drive stability in the environment. Perform reviews of all open production items with the development team and push for updates and resolutions to outstanding tasks and reoccurring issues. Drive service resilience by implementing SRE(site reliability engineering) principles, ensuring proactive monitoring, automation and operational efficiency. Ensure regulatory and compliance adherence, managing audits, access reviews, and security controls in line with organizational policies. The candidate will have to work in shifts as part of a Rota covering APAC and EMEA hours between 07:00 IST and 11:00 PM IST (2 shifts). In the event of major outages or issues we may ask for flexibility to help provide appropriate cover. Weekend on-call coverage needs to be provided on rotational/need basis. Your skills and experience 7-12 years of experience in providing hands on IT application support. Experience in managing vendor team’s providing 24x7 support.  Preferred : Team lead role experience, Experience in an investment bank, financial institution.