Application Support Analyst

FIS. Empowering the Financial World; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology company in London is seeking an Application Support Analyst. You will provide critical support to clients, resolve complex technical issues, and monitor system health. The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of experience in application support and strong technical skills, particularly in SQL and RDBMS. This role involves shift work, ensuring comprehensive client support at all hours.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd line application support.
• Experience in customer-facing environments.
• Advanced technical skills in SQL and RDBMS.

Responsibilities

• Provide 2nd and 3rd line support to customers.
• Analyze and resolve customer issues promptly.
• Monitor system health and respond to incidents.

Skills

3 - 5+ years in application support

Strong experience in supporting enterprise systems

Experience analyzing large datasets

Problem-solving skills

Logical troubleshooting

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

SQL

DataDog

ActiveBatch

Windows Servers

Azure

Job description

Position Type : Full time

Type Of Hire : Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)

Education Desired : Bachelor\'s Degree

Travel Percentage : 0%

Your new role

The FIS Supply Chain Finance Client Services team is responsible for monitoring the operation of the system, providing support to our customers, performing configuration changes and working with other teams within the organisation to roll out the platform to new customers.

In your new role as an Application Support Analyst you will be responsible for the provision of 2nd and 3rd line support to our global network of customers. You will take full and independent ownership of the resolution and root cause analysis of advanced technical and functional issues in a Level 2 or Level 3 capacity.

What you\'ll do

• Triaging incoming tickets, performing analysis, and resolving customer issues
• Maintain effective client communication throughout the incident life-cycle
• For critical issues identify solutions to get clients back to BAU as quickly as possible in-line with client\'s SLAs
• Actively monitoring system health using a variety of tools including dedicated infrastructure and application monitoring suites, SQL, and ActiveBatch
• Collaborating closely with the Development, Infrastructure, and Implementation teams to bring new customers onto the platform
• Resolving client incidents and/or escalating where needed
• Monitoring and responding to monitoring events

Who you are

• 3 - 5+ years professional experience in a 1st, 2nd and 3rd line application support role in a customer-facing environment
• Strong, demonstrable experience in successfully supporting, troubleshooting and/or implementing major hosted enterprise systems
• You are comfortable analyzing, transforming, and generally working with large datasets
• You have a passion for helping others and thrive on solving problems
• You are logical and insightful when troubleshooting problems
• You flourish in a dynamic high-pressure environment and can prioritize incoming and existing tasks according to urgency and impact

Advanced technical skills including:

• SQL, RDBMS expertise
• Monitoring and scheduling tools (DataDog & ActiveBatch)
• XML and other data file formats
• Windows Servers
• Cloud and other virtualisation/containerisation technologies, particularly Azure
• An understanding of ITIL concepts.

Working hours

This role involves shift working. There are three shifts working the following hours:

• Early Shift: 06:00 – 14:30 GMT
• Mid Shift: 09:00 – 17:30 GMT
• Late Shift: 14:30 – 23:00 GMT

A normal shift pattern would be 1 x Early Shift (Only on bank holidays), 1x Late Shift (Once a week), Sunday Shift (7am to 2:30pm - Once every 9 weeks)