About the Role
Data Centre Services (DCS) is responsible for the strategic leadership, operational governance, and control of Deutsche Bank’s global IT hosting portfolio. This role provides oversight and coordination across data center white space operations, grey space landlord interfaces, vendor performance, and site governance, helping to embed the target operating model and ensure adherence to standards and requirements.
Responsibilities
- Provide client-side oversight of day-to-day white space operations and grey space infrastructure interfaces across data centre environments.
- Coordinate with landlords, colocation operators, facilities providers, vendors, smart hands teams, and internal service owners to ensure controlled operational execution.
- Review planned maintenance, MOPs, risk assessments, access requirements, service impacts, and evidence of completion for shared infrastructure activities.
- Conduct site reviews, assess vendor performance, document findings, and support remediation of issues, risks, and non-compliance.
- Support the implementation of standardised operational processes, governance routines, auditability, and vendor accountability under the target operating model.
- Work with DCS, security, compliance, commercial, project, and local teams to maintain secure, resilient, and well-controlled data centre operations.
Requirements
- Several years of experience in data center operations, IT facilities, infrastructure operations, governance, audit, assurance, or site reviews, ideally within a financial services environment.
- Strong knowledge of data center white space operations, including rack and stack activities, structured cabling, patching, cross-connects, hardware deployment, asset management, and IMAC/D processes.
- Good understanding of data center infrastructure and grey space dependencies, including power, cooling, UPS, generators, fire protection, environmental monitoring, and building management systems.
- Familiarity with DCIM tools, ITIL practices, operational controls, and industry standards related to resilience, availability, security, monitoring, and structured cabling.
- Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimize workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.
Skills
- Analytical skills
- Communication skills
- Stakeholder management skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Ability to produce operational reports
- Ability to track issues and actions
- Ability to work effectively across regional and global teams
- Ability to analyze operational data
- Ability to produce concise site review reports
- Ability to produce issue logs
- Ability to produce action trackers
- Ability to produce management updates
- Ability to produce evidence-based recommendations
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Assistant Vice President
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000 to $153,000
Benefits
- Generous vacation, personal and volunteer days
- Employee Resource Groups support
- Health and wellbeing benefits
- Retirement savings plans
- Parental leave
- Family building benefits
- Educational resources
- Matching gift and volunteer programs
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
