Senior Applications Support Analyst (Assistant Vice President)

Citi Group; Sydney; Presencial; AUD 110 000 - 150 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Citi Group in Sydney seeks a Senior Applications Support Analyst to ensure stable operation of Citi applications in a follow-the-sun model. You will troubleshoot complex issues, collaborate with global teams, and contribute to the operational excellence of custody-related applications.

The role requires strong analytical skills, experience with middleware and monitoring tools, and the ability to communicate effectively with traders and technology teams. A bachelor’s degree is required.

Qualificações

• Minimum 5 years in an application support role.
• Experience installing, configuring or supporting business applications.
• Technical aptitude across multiple technologies and platforms.
• Ability to learn new tools quickly and adapt to change.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsabilidades

• Provide technical and business support for Citi applications, delivering quick resolutions.
• Maintain and support production running systems in daily operations.
• Monitor stability, performance and functionality against SLAs.
• Perform start-of-day checks and regional handovers.
• Participate in application releases and post-implementation analysis.
• Escalate risk and issues to management promptly and transparently.

Conhecimentos

5-8+ years experience

Application Support

.Net

SQL

Autosys

ITRS Geneos

Grafana

OTEL

GCO

IBM MQ Websphere

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Web servers

Middleware

SRE exposure

Effective communication

Problem management

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Descrição da oferta de emprego

The Senior Applications Support Analyst is a seasoned professional role in Investor Services Custody in Sydney.

Applies in-depth disciplinary knowledge, contributing to the quick solutioning of issues and contributing towards operational excellency of applications. Integrates subject matter and industry expertise within Custody business. Requires good analytical skills in order to prioritize, validate and troubleshoot complex and dynamic issues. To work in collaboration with global team operating from various geographical locations to support follow the sun shift model.

Responsibilities:

• The Senior Applications Support Analyst provides technical and business support for users of Citi Applications. This includes providing quick resolutions to app issues, driving stability, efficiency and effectiveness improvements to help us and the business succeed.
• Maintains application systems that have completed the development stage and are running in the daily operations of the firm.
• Manages, maintains and supports applications and their operating environments, focusing on stability, quality and functionality against service level expectations.
• Start of day checks, continuous monitoring, and regional handover.
• Perform same day risk reconciliations
• Develop and maintain technical support documentation.
• Identifies ways to maximize the potential of the applications used
• Assess risk and impact of production issues and escalate to business and technology management in a timely manner.
• Ensures that storage and archiving procedures are in place and functioning correctly
• Formulates and defines scope and objectives for complex application enhancements and problem resolution
• Reviews and develops application contingency planning to ensure availability to users.
• Partners with appropriate development and production support areas to prioritize bug fixes and support tooling requirements.
• Participate in application releases, from development, testing and deployment into production.
• Engages in post implementation analysis to ensure successful system design and functionality.
• Considers implications of the application of technology to the current environment. Identifies risks, vulnerabilities and security issues; communicates impact.
• Ensures essential procedures are followed and helps to define operating standards and processes.
• Act as a liaison between users/traders, interfacing internal technology groups and vendors.
• Expected to be able to raise problems to appropriate technology and business teams, while adhering to Service Level Agreements.
• Acts as advisor or coach to new or junior level analysts.
• Provides evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual information in complicated and unique situations.
• Directly impacts the business by ensuring the quality of work provided by self and others; impacts own team and closely related work teams.
• Exhibits sound and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills to exchange complex information.
• Active involvement in and ownership of Support Project items, covering Stability, Efficiency, and Effectiveness initiatives.
• Performs other duties and functions as assigned.
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• 5-8 years experiences in an Application Support role.
• Experience installing, configuring or supporting business applications.
• Experience with some programming languages, middleware and tooling like .Net, SQL, Autosys, ITRS Geneos, Grafana, OTEL, GCO, IBM MQ Websphere, File transfer protocols, Web servers, understanding on ECS, rabbit MQ, microservices, Kafka., etc and willingness/ability to learn.
• Advanced execution capabilities and ability to adjust quickly to changes and re-prioritization
• Exposure to SRE and AI tools.
• Expertise in ITRS, Grafana would be a great add on.
• Effective written and verbal communications including ability to explain technical issues in simple terms that non-IT staff can understand.
• Demonstrated analytical skills
• Issue tracking and reporting using tools
• Knowledge/ experience of problem Management Tools.
• Good all-round technical skills
• Effectively share information with other support team members and with other technology teams
• Ability to plan and organize workload
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate appropriately to relevant stakeholder.

Education:

Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience

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