Product Manager, VP

Job Title: Product Manager

Location: Pune, India

Corporate Title: Vice President

Role Description

The product manager for Database Services is responsible for managing Deutsche Bank's strategic database products, ensuring alignment with the banks technical roadmap. This role involves capacity management, cost optimization, chargeback mechanisms, and driving future product development within the organization. The product management teams works closely with CIO application teams, engineering, self service teams and external product vendors to ensure efficient and strategic evolution of bank's database landscape.

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

• Prepare, maintain and update the roadmap for database products ensuring alignment with Deutsche Bank's technical vision and communicate it to relevant stakeholders
• Ensure and report compliance of strategic database products with Deutsche Bank´s technical roadmap and broader CIO application database environments.
• Oversee capacity management and forecasting to optimize database platforms, cost efficiency, while ensuring transparency with the consumers.
• Prepare and maintain information material for different stakeholder groups - such as technical experts and management - on various communication channels
• Drive innovation in database product offerings by evaluating emerging technologies, platforms, and market trends.
• Setup a database consumer community and interact with them on a regular basis
• Work with product vendors to manage database related products, licensing and service agreements.
• Facilitate database refresh cycles, upgrades, patches under minimal disruption to operations while integrating this process into Deutsche Bank´s ITSM landscape
• Prepare the upcoming technical refresh for Oracle in close cooperation with all parties involved.
• Identify potentials for cost optimizations that can be realized in the technical refresh.
• Communicate the upcoming technical refresh activities to all parties involved on a regular basis
• Identify opportunities for adoption of new database solutions and future product enhancements along with potential cloud adoption for database offerings

Your skills and experience

• Bachelor's degree from a recognized university focusing in computer science or an IT-related subject
• More than 10 years of experience in financial industry with minimum 3 years in managing database products. Demonstrated experience in database transformation projects is desired.  
• Fair understanding of database technologies and it's role in enterprise IT environments.
• First hand experiences with on prem and public cloud solutions are desirable
• Advanced knowledge in ITIL process framework
• Advanced knowledge in agile work methodology
• Ability to gather information from CMDB to cater to different requirements for analysing the estate within the organization.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Careful and accurate working methods, focus on a high quality, even in stressful situations
• Resilience, reliability, flexibility and team spirit
• Pronounced service orientation along with ability to work with multiple internal teams is essential.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to evaluate database product offerings and infrastructure needs.

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

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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.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.