Storage Architect - Automation, VP

Job Title: Storage Services Backup Data Protection Product Manager , VP

Location: Pune/ Bangalore, India

Role Description

• The role is ideal for a product leader particularly in enterprise backup and cyber resiliency, who can translate complex infrastructure capabilities into commercially viable, scalable, and recovery-ready services for the organization. It is not a hands-on engineering position. You will lead a cross-functional programme involving senior stakeholders, audit partners, CIO organisations, and technical delivery teams. This is a strategic leadership role, requiring strong governance, stakeholder management, and delivery oversight skills

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

Programme Leadership & Delivery

• Lead the end-to-end backup estate programme across all critical workloads and business services
• Define and implement a structured delivery plan to achieve for the product
• Track progress against audit milestones, ensuring timely closure of all findings
• Establish clear governance forums, reporting structures, and escalation pathways

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary interface with IT Application Owners (ITAOs), CIO leadership, and Group Audit
• Communicate programme objectives, progress, risks, and outcomes in a clear, executive-level narrative
• Align stakeholders on Tertiary Copy to Clean Room and remediation expectations
• Drive accountability across globally distributed teams and business units

Delivery Oversight (Non-Technical)

• Manage and coordinate a team of backup engineers and SMEs performing analysis and reporting
• Validate delivery outputs (e.g. recovery time calculations, compliance status) from a governance perspective
• Ensure consistency in methodology, reporting standards, and data quality across the programme

Commercial Product Leadership

• Own and evolve the commercial strategy, pricing approach, funding model, and financial transparency framework across the product suite
• Develop multi-year product and investment roadmaps aligned to business demand, technology strategy, and regulatory requirements

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Define, maintain, and communicate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Backup Data Protection estate
• Drive the adoption of utility-based and consumption-driven models where appropriate

Cyber Resiliency / Enterprise Backup / Recovery Strategy

• Already Demonstrated leadership in designing and delivering cyber resiliency solutions, bringing actionable expertise in implementing new cyber recovery capabilities within the enterprise backup estate
• Shape product strategy and roadmap for backup, recovery, archive, long-term retention, and data protection services

Governance, Risk, Control & Audit

• Support and coordinate internal audits, control assurance, and regulatory responses relating to storage and backup services
• Ensure non-compliant applications have clearly defined remediation plans with measurable outcomes
• Provide structured, transparent, maintaining full audit readiness for the product
• Maintain a robust RAID log (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) and drive resolution to closure

Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Drive continuous improvement across the backup estate through simplification, automation, standardization, and service optimization

• Leadership, Stakeholder Management & Communication

• Build strong relationships across infrastructure, cyber security, engineering, production support, finance, and business management teams
• Lead, coach, and develop team members while fostering an inclusive, high-performing, and delivery-oriented culture

Your skills and experience

• Proven experience as a Product Manager in large-scale fintech or regulatory programmes
• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing cyber resiliency solutions using Cohesity, Veeam, TSM experience.
  Proven track record of end-to-end ownership, including:
• Solution architecture and design, Implementation and deployment, Operationalization and optimization of platform capabilities
• Strong track record delivering audit remediation, resilience, or risk-based initiatives
• Experience managing audit closure processes and evidence-based remediation reporting
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging CIOs, senior executives, and audit functions
• Deep expertise in programme governance, reporting, and delivery management frameworks
• Ability to translate complex technical topics into clear, executive-level communications
• Experience managing global, cross-functional teams in a matrix organization.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-integrated storage and backup services
• Good understanding of cyber resiliency concepts, including clean room / isolated recovery environments, recovery assurance, and operational resilience
• Experience using automation and scripting to support product and operational efficiency
• Experience leading products from strategy and ideation through commercialization, scaling, and sustained operations
• Strong business case development skills with the ability to articulate value, cost, investment needs, and strategic trade-off

Capabilities required

Business Competencies

• Business Strategy
• Change Leadership
• Financial Management
• Industry Knowledge
• Innovation
• Managing Complexity
• Risk Management
• Product Knowledge
• Communication

Technical Competencies

• Enterprise Backup & Recovery
• Business Continuity & Operational Resilience
• Cyber Resiliency / Clean Room Recovery Concepts
• Operational Management
• Process Development & Management
• Capacity & Demand Management
• Project / Program Governance
• Quality Management

DB Leadership Capabilities

• Business Judgement
• Strategic Direction
• Inspirational Leadership
• Building Talent
• Influence
• Execution
• Collaboration
• Competitive Edge
• Decision Making in Complex Environments

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

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.html

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.