Application Support Analyst

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking an Application Support Analyst to monitor and resolve complex technical issues impacting critical technology infrastructure. This role requires strong mainframe skills, ITIL knowledge, and collaboration with stakeholders to maintain stable operations.

You will operate from Barclays' Knutsford office, participate in out-of-hours rota support, and contribute to continual service improvements while ensuring incident resolution quality.

Qualifications

• Experience with Cobol, Abend-aid and DB2 database fact finding.
• Familiarity with ITIL concepts and incident, problem, change management.
• Knowledge of ServiceFirst / ServiceNow (SNOW) for ticketing and workflow.
• Experience with mainframe tools like TWS and IBM IMS is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for complex issues within the service management function.
• Develop and improve the support model and service offering for customers.

Skills

Cobol

DB2

JCL

ITIL

ServiceNow

Mainframe

TWS

Tools

ServiceFirst

SNOW

TWS Mainframe

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role

To effectively monitor and maintain the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimising disruption to operations.

Accountabilities

• Provision of technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client of group of clients.
• Develop the support model and service offering to improve the service to customers and stakeholders.
• Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring tools/metrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance.
• Maintenance of a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self-service opportunities and knowledge sharing.
• Analysis of system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration changes.
• Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific support and stakeholder management.
• Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service impacting risks and issues.
• Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency.
• Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds, and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur.

Analyst Expectations

To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement. Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise. Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise. They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources. If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others. OR for an individual contributor, they develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate. Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area. Partner with other functions and business areas. Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities. Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately. Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation. Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct. Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function. Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function. Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail. Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents. Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information. Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join us as an Application Support Analyst at Barclays

Join us as an Application Support Analyst at Barclays, where you’ll provide technical support by troubleshooting and resolving complex issues, ensuring timely resolution of incidents, and communicating effectively with stakeholders. You’ll also benefit from being part of a vast professional network, collaborating with industry mentors and experts. You will need to be able to do out of hours support on a rota basis.

To be successful as an Application Support Analyst, you should have experience in:

• Run The Bank roles within financial institutions, specifically in live job dump solving and an evaluative mindset to resolve incident queries.
• Cobol, Abend-aid, DB2 database fact finding and basic JCL skills within the banking sector.
• ITIL concepts and best practices and using Service Management Tool - Service First / SNOW for incident, problem and change management.

Some other highly valued skills may include: Personal attributes essential to performing role including capabilities, knowledge, and experience as well as good communication (verbal and written) and suitable for a diverse audience, with the ability to communicate in a positive, friendly and effective manner with ‘technical’ or ‘non-technical’ users/ customers. Awareness in batch monitoring tools (TWS on the mainframe) and exposure to IMS or knowledge of it would also be beneficial. Good communication (verbal and written) and suitable for a diverse audience, with the ability to communicate in a positive, friendly and effective manner with ‘technical’ or ‘non-technical’ users/ customers. You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Work Experience and Location

This role will be based in our office in Knutsford. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.