IT Application Owner / Release Manager (f/m/x) - Trade Finance & Lending

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IT Application Owner / Release Manager (f/m/x) - Trade Finance & Lending

Job ID:R0413875
Full/Part-Time: Full-time

Regular/Temporary: Regular
Listed: 2026-04-21

Location: Berlin

Position Overview

About the job

Deutsche Bank Technology in Berlin

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.

Trade Finance and Lending is one of leading business departments in Corporate Bank working with clients around the globe. It has great dependency on IT platform to service the Bank's clients. The group is working on technology refresh of their IT platform to enable new services for customers as well as to achieve next level of business processes automation.

In-house IT team already achieved great success designing, building and rolling out into production its strategic platform for lending business. Based on that success there is a further desire to build towards our strategic architecture.

The IT Application Owner (ITAO) is an expert with an in-depth functional- and technical knowledge of his application, has to manage and maintain it, ensuring compliance with applicable IT policies & procedures and with specific consideration to IT Management and Information Security policies.
As a Release Manager you will own the entire software delivery lifecycle, planning and coordinating releases from development to deployment. You would be responsible to define release scope, schedules, and readiness criteria, while managing dependencies and environments.

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Your key responsibilities

* Application Governance, Policy Compliance & Controls - Enforce governance processes for changes: documentation, approvals, risk assessment, roll-back plans, recertifications and periodic control activities (e.g., user/role reviews)
* Audit and Regulatory Readiness - Coordinate external/internal audit requests and ensure timely delivery of required evidence and remediation actions, own escalation and resolution for findings related to non-compliance
* Disaster Recovery (DR) & Resilience - Plan, conduct, and support
* Planning, Coordination & Execution - Define release scope, deployment approach, environments, and milestones. Ensure changes follow required workflow and approvals, ensure traceability through tools and documentation
* Stakeholder Management, Communication & Coordination - Provide regular, structured communication to stakeholders (business, product owners, IT leadership, operations)

Your skills and experiences

* Several years of working experience in big teams, automating deployment, smoke-testing, monitoring, experience setting up SRE tooling
* Solid understanding of the modern SDLC tool stack, including Bitbucket, Jira, Artifactory, TeamCity, and similar platforms
* Solid technical background in infrastructure: servers, storages, networks, middleware, databases
* Hands on experience with tech audit, cloud deployment, GCP in particular
* Strong communication and collaboration skills in English

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".

Since our offerings slightly vary across locations, please contact your recruiter with specific questions.

This job is available in full and parttime.

In case of any recruitment related questions, please get in touch with Kilian Weber.

Contact Kilian Weber: +49 (30) 34073087

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