Job Description

Job Title: Delivery Assurance – Database Lead Corporate Title: Vice President
Division: CTO
Location: London Hiring Manager: Santosh Panicker Overview: Business Technology Integration (BTI) work with both CIO teams and the IT organisation. BTI act to both ensure that business requirements are taken into account within the IT org and also that IT projects are planned for and supported by the businesses. This role is essential to both maintaining and adapting the IT landscape of DB to meet current and future needs of the business. Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the relationship between BTI and IT projects, ensuring that business requirements are understood by the projects
• Ensure that scope and requirements for new and ongoing IT projects are understood both from a high-level management view, and at a low level Server/CI/App view
• Work with data management teams to ensure that inventories and data views are maintained and developed to facilitate the IT projects
• Contribute to ongoing BTI standard setting
• Input to and represent BTI on a number of forums, being able to switch between representing the businesses or the IT organisation according to the other participants
• Provide escalation support for the engagement between IT projects and CIO teams
• Proactive engagement on new projects and opportunities which could benefit or impact application teams
• Provide inputs for project and CIO/Reporting Unit centric reports
• Adhere to DB’s Risk and Issue recording standards

Skills & Qualifications:

• 10+ years’ experience within IT organisations
• Good understanding of common infrastructure, application development, and support issues and trends
• Advanced Project Management skills
• Able to influence others without having management relationships
• Ability to work with large data sets (10s – 100k rows) to spot patterns and translate into business communications
• Exemplary communication skills, able to tailor communications from technical low level to C-level
• Can react to fast changing requirements and priorities
• Comfortable joining projects at all stages of the project lifecycle, from initiation through to late-stage recovery

Diversity, inclusion and mutual respect are essential elements of who we are. These values define the working environment we strive to create – engaging, supportive and welcoming of different views. We believe innovation stems from intellectual curiosity alongside the right mix of skills and talents. Therefore, we embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds. The company promotes equality of opportunity and encourages the development of all employees to their full potential. We are open to agile working arrangements – talk to us about flexibility and other initiatives we offer. We are an equal opportunities employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best available person for a job regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and national or ethnic origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We aim to treat all employees in a fair and consistent manner, promote good working relationships to encourage high standards of conduct and performance within a work environment free from harassment, bullying and discrimination. Please let us know if you require any adjustments to enable you to apply or attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements, or have any concerns about the application process, please contact your recruiter. Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.
We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.