Citi Group Margin Applications Support Tech Lead Analyst VP 

India, Maharashtra, Pune 

798235299

Role Overview:

The Margin Application Support Tech Lead Analyst; contributes to standards around which others will operate. Requires developed communication and diplomacy skills to influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and operational clients. Has responsibility for volume, quality, timeliness, and delivery of end results of an area. Involved in short-term planning resource planning. Partial management responsibility of a team, which may include management of people, their workload and rosters, performance evaluation and hiring.

In this role, you will liaise closely with your colleagues in the America, Pune, Sydney , Canada, Belfast, and London to ensure 24 x 5 coverage of the application. Flexibility in working hours required to cover business start-up and close, and any additional demands of the business. You will be expected to cover occasional weekend coverage on a rotational basis to support release cycles and participate in disaster recovery testing.

Functional Responsibilities:

• Provide user support for critical risk, Margin and Monet platforms.
• Support all aspects of Margin trade flows including SOD/ EOD/ Intraday risk and regulatory reporting.
• Start of day checks, continuous monitoring of application and underlying infrastructure and regional handover at end of day.
• You will be expected to raise problems to appropriate technology and business teams, while adhering to Service Level Agreements.
• Act as a liaison between users/traders, interfacing internal technology groups and vendors, as well as being a liaise with developers and other technical support services (i.e. Unix SA’s, Market Data Teams)
• Ensure high application availability by performing system health checks and preventative maintenance tasks.
• Ensure all productions issues are logged and updated as per the Support team policies and procedures.
• Participate in application releases, from development, testing and deployment into production.
• Diagnosis and resolution of users issues and escalation of problems using the problem management tools
• Collaboration with Development colleagues to prioritize bug fixes and support tooling requirements.
• Develop and maintain technical support documentation.
• Effectively share information with other support team members and with other technology teams.​
• Provide hands-on application support, which involves weekend coverage on a rotational basis and manage technical leadership of Pune support team in Margin, their workload, and rosters.
• Provides technical oversight across systems and applications, leverage skills across multiple apps support areas.
• Provide guidance on feedback reviews with development managers, ensuring outstanding issues are tracked to closure, particularly long-term strategic fixes.
• Performs controlled resolution of incidents and problems including prioritization and escalation to relevant groups when appropriate, root cause analysis of all problems with follow-through to resolution.
• Consults with the primary clients of the application in conjunction with development managers in order to understand the strategic objectives of users.
• Requires awareness of audit and compliance related issues.
• Contributes to formulation of strategies for apps support and other functional areas.
• Champion stability initiatives to enable application high availability for Business-As-Usual which includes better monitoring, failover and resiliency.
• Ability to handle incidents, problems and change at a global enterprise level. Calm and analytical when faced with major incidents on critical systems.
• Manages customer satisfaction requirements of operational procedures to achieve a suitable outcome for all stakeholders.
• Exhibits sound and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills to exchange complex information with inherent confidence with operations and technology partners on a regional or global basis.
• 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 behaviour, 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.

Technical Skills:

• General understanding of financial markets and products, in particular Cross Product Margin and margining. Across various assets and trade types.
• Requires Hands-on experience of supporting production applications.
• Extensive years’ experience in an Apps Support role would be an added advantage, but not essential.
• Working knowledge of SQL. (Able to build ad hoc SQL queries)
• Working knowledge of UNIX (Solaris/Linux)
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Positive attitude and keen to learn.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under stress and time constraints.

• Experience with real-time monitoring systems such as ITRS Net agent
• Experience with Messaging Technologies (TIBCO EMS a plus)
• Job scheduling tool such as Autosys.
• Issue tracking and reporting using tools such as ServiceNow
• Knowledge/ experience of problem Management Tools.
• Good all-round PC skills. (I.e. Windows OS / Networks / General Hardware
• Some knowledge of Python, MongoDB preferred.
• Working ability to understand and analyses coding languages

Competencies:

• Ability to communicate well verbally and written at all levels
• Strong organizational skills
• Self-motivated and dedicated
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to learn new skills quickly with little supervision
• Demonstrated leadership, interpersonal skills and relationship building skills
• Highly assertive communications skills, commanding personality. Ability to engage a large audience and lead the discussion with clear, articulate, and highly assertive communication. Must show confidence in all communications
• Effectively share information with other support team members and with other technology teams
• Ability to plan and organize workload for themselves and for the team
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate appropriately to relevant stakeholders

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

Time Type:

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