Citi Group Application Support Engineer 

Costa Rica 

362506917

Responsibilities:

• The Apps Support Intmd Analyst provides technical and business support for users of Citi Applcations.
• 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:

• 2-5 years experience
• Basic knowledge or interest about apps support procedures, concepts and of other technical areas.
• 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

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

Key Responsibilities

As an Application Support Engineer within the Institutional Clients Group (ICG) business, you will be part of a growing team in Costa Rica responsible for:

• day-to-day availability of the applications (and ensuring any impacts are taken care of and accurately communicated to business users and technology senior leaders);
• actively proposing, implementing and chasing actions that increase application stability/reliability and that enhance our team’s operational efficiency, especially via task automation.

Essential Skills

• Working experience of 2+ years on an Application Support Jr Engineer role or an experience of 5+ years on a Tech related role
• Working knowledge of English, both oral and written is required
• Working experience on supporting applications running in Unix/Linux, Windows, and Cloud environments.
• Working experience on supporting/configuring SQL databases, WebSphere, Oracle, IIS from an application perspective.
• Experience in Incident, Problem, Change and Release management processes
• Working knowledge on integration technologies like MQ series, ConnectDirect and NDM, or on scheduling tools like Autosys and Tivoli (TWS) is a plus
• Working experience on DevOps tools (Ansible, Bitbucket, Jenkins, etc.), as well as on programming/scripting for automation purposes is a plus.

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