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Application Owner

TL;DR; Explains the responsibilities of managing production applications, including vendor relations, issue resolution, audits, and system access, typically handled by a project manager.

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In my company it is the job of someone in business technology to manage production applications. Personally I think that this is a job for a Project Manager, not a developer, as it is about management and is not particularly technical. You do not actually have to carry out any of the work on the application, just:

This is no small task and incorporates only part of my job. When everything is well, there is little to do, but as usual everything happens at once.

I currently own:

I am performing a SOX audit on our general ledger application and all of our Mortgage Sourcing application have stopped working due mainly to the way they are built being incompatible with our infrastructure.

Fixing these problems, or managing the solutions is slow and painfully. At least my company has just implemented a SOX audit management system that is taking the audit from two months last year to only a few weeks this year.

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