Application Support Technical Lead - Vice President

Citigroup Inc.; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global banking leader is seeking an Apps Support Tech Lead Analyst to partner with technology teams, enhance systems, and provide expert production support. Responsibilities include identifying security risks, advising junior analysts, and influencing strategic decisions. Ideal candidates should have strong technical skills with Cloudera stack and good problem-solving abilities. The role offers hybrid work and competitive benefits, including 27 days annual leave and performance-related bonuses.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

Discretionary annual performance related bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Special discounts for employees, family, and friends

Access to learning and development resources

Qualifications

• Good technical knowledge of Cloudera stack, Kafka, Spark, Hive, HBase, Sqoop, Couchbase.
• Familiarity with ITIL process, ServiceNow, ITRS monitoring and Splunk tools.
• Service oriented attitude.
• Practical problem solving and strategic thinking skills.
• Ability to communicate appropriately with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Identifies risks, vulnerabilities and security issues; communicates impact; proposes risk mitigation options.
• Acts as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts; allocates work.
• Provides in-depth analysis to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Directly impacts the business by influencing strategic functional decisions.
• Persuades and influences others through strong communication and diplomacy skills.
• Provides expertise in production support.

Skills

Cloudera stack

Kafka

Spark

Hive

HBase

Sqoop

Couchbase

ITIL process

ServiceNow

ITRS monitoring

Splunk tools

Job description

Overview

Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? Then bring your skills in analysis, problem solving and communication to senior stakeholders for rewarding career at Citi.

By joining Citi, you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

What you’ll do

The Apps Support Tech Lead Analyst is responsible to partner with multiple technology teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals; identify and define necessary system enhancements; analyse existing system logic, identify problems; and recommend and implementation of solutions. Partners with multiple technology areas and management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals. Works closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts and Systems Analysts to determine and document Systems impacts and support requirements.

Responsibilities

• Identifies risks, vulnerabilities and security issues; communicates impact; proposes risk mitigation options.

• Acts as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts; allocates work.

• Provides in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define problems and develop innovative solutions.

• Directly impacts the business by influencing strategic functional decisions through advice, counsel or provided services.

• Persuades and influences others through strong and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills

• Provides expertise in production support and an advanced level of understanding of the principles of apps support.

What we’ll need from you

• Good technical knowledge of Cloudera stack, Kafka, Spark, Hive, HBase, Sqoop, Couchbase

• Familiarity with ITIL process, ServiceNow, ITRS monitoring and Splunk tools

• Service oriented attitude

• Practical problem solving and strategic thinking skills

• Ability to communicate appropriately with senior stakeholders

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

What we’ll provide you

By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

• A discretionary annual performance related bonus

• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Program

• Pension Plan

• Paid Parental Leave

• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends

• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.

Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.