Senior IT Application Manager (Securities)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior IT Application Manager (Securities)
• Area: IT Commercial, CRE & Applications
• Focus: Capital markets platform applications for retail, wholesale, and institutional customers
• Work model: Partially mobile/remote possible (80% assigned)

Description

You will take responsibility for the application portfolio supporting securities/capital markets business. The role emphasizes resilient, cost-conscious operations, incident/problem control, and continuous improvement of availability, resiliency, and scalability. You will coordinate business and IT stakeholders and contribute to technical target architectures and mainframe-based application development and operations.

Responsibilities

• Operate and steer applications in your area, ensuring resilient and cost-aware operations including incident and problem management
• Coordinate the technical application side together with the business unit, especially regarding IT infrastructure, architecture, and IT security
• Lead interdisciplinary teams of internal specialists and external service providers to ensure availability, resiliency, and ongoing development
• Evolve applications by implementing functional and technical requirements in the software development process and within strategic target visions (simpler, scalable, customer-focused, resilient)
• Contribute to technical design guidelines for development teams (interfaces, processing chains, data management, error-case handling)
• Use mainframe repository and analysis tools (e.g., XINFO) for impact analysis, quality assurance, and documentation
• Steer providers under existing contracts and manage stakeholders internally and externally
• Participate in future-oriented projects

Requirements

• Completed degree in Computer Science or IT-focused training with a technical emphasis and business understanding
• In-depth foundation in application design, IT security, regulatory requirements, and several years of IT application or project management experience in the securities environment
• Experience with HOST/mainframe environment, especially COBOL, DB2, and JCL process control; or ability to ramp up from development/deployment/operations knowledge
• Knowledge of IBM mainframe application management; ideally RACF, MQ, Control-M, COBOL, Java, and GitHub Copilot
• Strong communication with business, IT, and management; experience collaborating with external providers and in agile contexts
• Independent, structured, solution-oriented approach with strong analytical and conceptual skills and excellent abstraction
• Experience in functional leadership of teams
• Ideally knowledge of securities/capital market processes
• Active interest in GenAI and digital enablers and focus on cost-efficient implementations; ideally familiarity with IT regulatory requirements in banks
• Fluent German (C1) and good English (B2)

Benefits

• Modern talent management for career development
• Flexible working hours
• Sabbaticals
• Partial mobility/remote work options
• Attractive company pension plan
• Comprehensive health management
• Leasing options such as Job-Rad, tablet, and smartphone
• Lunch offers
• Multiple day-care centers