Applications Support Manager - Assistant Vice President

Citi; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking an experienced Applications Support Manager to lead a 24x7 apps support team in Pune, manage escalation, and ensure service continuity. The role involves monitoring, releases, and collaboration with users, development teams, and vendors to deliver reliable technology services.

The ideal candidate has 5-8 years in apps support with people management, strong ITIL knowledge, and proficient use of monitoring and reporting tools such as ITRS, Splunk, Grafana, PowerBI and Tableau.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years experience in an Apps Support role with commensurate people management experience.
• Experience with real-time monitoring systems such as ITRS, Splunk, App Dynamics.
• Good understanding of ITIL support processes, specifically Incident, Problem, Change & Release Management
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Must show confidence in all communications so that key stakeholders are not doubtful of the information
• Well versed with reporting tools such as Grafana, PowerBI, Tableau
• Effective prioritization skills and high energy
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, great teammate
• Issue tracking and reporting using tools
• Ability to plan and organize workload
• Ability to communicate appropriately to relevant stakeholder

Responsibilities

• Manages an apps support team while operating in 24X7 rotational shifts.
• Oversees process for technical issue escalation; prioritizes technical issue resolution.
• Ensures resource gaps are addressed as a priority to avoid business service disruption.
• Oversees resolution of major system outages ensuring communication to interested parties.
• Start of day checks, continuous monitoring, and regional handover.
• Acts as a liaison between users/development teams, interfacing internal technology groups and vendors.
• Provides technical oversight across systems and applications; leverages skills across apps support area.
• Owns support project items covering Stability, Efficiency, and Effectiveness initiatives.
• Applies understanding of concepts to resolve issues within own apps support area.
• Delivers end results and contributes to planning, capacity management and procedures for apps support, influencing resource planning.
• Participates in application releases, from development, testing and deployment into production.
• Performs post release checkouts after releases and infrastructure updates.
• Develops and maintains technical support documentation.
• Influences others through communication and diplomacy; may negotiate with external parties.
• Evaluates subordinates' performance and makes improvement recommendations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Assesses risk in business decisions, ensuring compliance and safeguarding Citi, with oversight of control issues.

Skills

People management

Incident management

ITIL processes

Communication skills

Prioritization

Cross-team collaboration

Reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

ITRS

Splunk

App Dynamics

Grafana

PowerBI

Tableau

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Manages an apps support team while operating in 24X7 rotational shifts.


• Oversees process for technical issue escalation; prioritizes technical issue resolution.


• Ensures resource gaps are addressed as a priority to avoid business service disruption.


• Oversees resolution of major system outages ensuring communication to interested parties.


• Start of day checks, continuous monitoring, and regional handover.


• Act as a liaison between users/development teams, interfacing internal technology groups and vendors.


• Provides technical oversight across systems and applications; leverages skills across apps support area.


• Active involvement in and ownership of Support Project items, covering Stability, Efficiency, and Effectiveness initiatives.


• Applies good understanding of concepts and procedures within own apps support area to resolve issues.


• Provides evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual information in complicated and unique situations.


• Responsible for delivery of end results and contributes to planning, capacity management and formulation of procedures which directly impacts the apps support area; influences resource planning.


• Participate in application releases, from development, testing and deployment into production.


• Perform post release checkouts after application releases and infrastructure updates.


• Develop and maintain technical support documentation.


• Persuades and influences others through strong communication and diplomacy skills; may negotiate with external parties


• Evaluates subordinates' performance and makes recommendations to improve the performance


• Performs other duties and functions as assigned


• 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• 5-8 years experience in an Apps Support role with commensurate people management experience.


• Experience with real-time monitoring systems such as ITRS, Splunk, App Dynamics.


• Good understanding of ITIL support processes, specifically in Incident, Problem, Change & Release Management


• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills


• Must show confidence in all communications so that key stake holders are not doubtful of the information being communicated


• Well versed with reporting tools such as Graffana, PowerBI, Tableau


• Effective prioritization skills and high energy.


• Good interpersonal and communication skills, great teammate


• Issue tracking and reporting using tools


• Effectively share information with other support team members and with other technology teams


• Ability to plan and organize workload


• Ability to communicate appropriately to relevant stakeholder

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Support

Time Type:

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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