Officer Production Application Support Engineer

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides 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.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

The Production Application Support Engineer is a developing professional role. Deals with most problems independently and has some latitude to solve complex problems. Integrates in-depth specialty area knowledge with a solid understanding of industry standards and practices. Good understanding of how the team and area integrate with others in accomplishing the objectives of the subfunction/ job family. Applies analytical thinking and knowledge of data analysis tools and methodologies. Requires attention to detail when making judgments and recommendations based on the analysis of factual information. Typically deals with variable issues with potentially broader business impact. Applies professional judgment when interpreting data and results. Breaks down information in a systematic and communicable manner. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to exchange potentially complex/sensitive information. Moderate but direct impact through close contact with the businesses' core activities. Quality and timeliness of service provided will affect the effectiveness of own team and other closely related teams.
Responsibilities:

• The Production Application Support Engineer provides technical and business support for users of Citi Applications.

• Utilizes good understanding of apps support procedures and concepts and basic knowledge of other technical areas to field issues and queries from stakeholders, provide short-term resolutions and work with relevant technology partners for long term remediation.

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of how areas of apps support collectively integrate to contribute to achieving business goals.

• Act as a liaison between users/traders, interfacing internal technology groups and vendors

• Participates in disaster recovery testing

• 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.

• Considers implications of the application of technology to the current environment.

• Analyzes applications to identify risks, vulnerabilities and security issues.

• Makes evaluative judgments based on analysis of factual information; resolves problems by identifying and selecting solutions Cooperation with Development colleagues to prioritize bug fixes and support tooling requirements.

• Directly impacts the business by ensuring the quality of work provided by self and others; impacts own team and closely related work teams.

• Exchanges ideas and information

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

• Performs other duties and functions as assigned in a concise and logical manner.

• 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+ years of experience

• Basic knowledge or interest about apps support procedures, concepts and of other technical areas.

• Knowledge with Automation, Unix, Autosys, Scription and Oracle.

• Participation in some process improvements.

• Previous experience or interest in standardization of procedures and practices.

• Basic Business knowledge/ understanding of financial markets and products.

• Knowledge/ experience of problem Management Tools.

• Understands of how own sub-function integrates within the function and commercial awareness

• Evaluates (sometimes complex) situations using multiple sources of information Developed communication and diplomacy skills to persuade and influence

• Good customer service, communication and interpersonal skills

• Good knowledge of the business and its technology strategy

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills

• Knowledge of issue tracking and reporting using tools

• Good all-round team member

• 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

• SRE Certification and experience with AppDynamics, Splunk, Kibana dashboard is a plus.

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience