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About the Team: SMBF Production Management
Our Production Management team provides critical business and technical support to the Security Markets, Banking and Functions (SMBF); working collaboratively to ensure that our platforms and services operate for our clients, whenever they need them. We act as highly skilled and valued partners to our businesses.
Working as part of our Production Management team, you will help deliver a world class client service and experience, by applying engineering, innovation, learning and risk management across our systems and user environments. We interact with a diverse range of people each day, collaborating to solve problems as well as to anticipate and remove them before they occur.
Citi’s distinct global network of people, data and relationships creates a mindset that allows us to identify opportunities, manage risks and connect dots for our clients in ways that others cannot. Our people really do make all the difference in our success. We’re a forward-thinking team. We’re looking for ambitious, capable professionals who thrive on collaboration and want to improve how things are done. In return, we offer rewarding work in a supportive environment, clear opportunities for progression and exciting company benefits.
Role and Position Overview
Citi Wholesale Lending is embarking on a multi-year technology initiative to upgrade our core accounting and servicing application for its Agency, Non-Agency and Bi-lateral businesses globally in order to support growth and strategic objectives including reduction in manual efforts leading to risk mitigation within the environment. The technology stack transformation will include migrating to the Loan IQ platform and exiting current products that support the businesses. A full-service Lending Production Support team will be critical in the transformation programs success.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone passionate about technology, but who possesses knowledge of the LoanIQ product.
As an Apps Support Senior Analyst, you will be pivotal in ensuring the continuous operation and maintenance of our Lending Applications' production environment. This position is part of the Data Solutions Production Management team, based in Pune, India. You will contribute to a globally distributed team spanning NYC Metro, Sydney, and Irving, collectively providing 24/7 support for our enterprise-critical applications. Success in this role requires close collaboration with Level 1 Support, Application Technology Development, Infrastructure teams, and Operations Product Owners.
Responsibilities:
Provide technical and product support for Loan IQ users.
Maintain Production environments with highest levels of observability, resiliency, and recoverability.
Partner with regional teams to maintain a stable Production environment.
Manage, maintain, and support applications and their operating environments. This includes focusing on stability, quality, and functionality in line with service level expectations.
Perform 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.
Champion stability initiatives to enable application high availability for Business-As-Usual which includes better monitoring, failover, and resiliency.
Ensure Incident & Problem management procedures are diligently followed for the Production Management service.
Handle incidents, problems and change at a global enterprise level. Calm and analytical when faced with major incidents on critical systems.
Implement and drive automations focused on productivity improvements and toil reduction
Exhibit 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.
Assess risk and impact of production issues, escalating to the business and technology management in a timely and appropriate manner.
Functional Knowledge and Technical Experience
5-7 years’ experience in an Apps Support role is essential
Experience supporting Loan IQ
Good Unix/Linux and Shell scripting skills
Good experience with Monitoring tools such as ITRS Geneos, AppDynamics or similar
Good experience with Log Aggregation tools such as ELK, Splunk, Grafana (GEM).
Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
Effectively share information with other support team members and with other technology teams
Good knowledge of SQL (Oracle dialect is preferable)
Experience with REST, JMS, Spring Boot, Tomcat and JSON and XML processing
Experience in Apache Spark, Hive, Starburst
Experience with Middleware solutions such as Kafka
Experience with Java or other programming languages and a willingness to learn new technologies
Education:
Bachelor’s/University degree
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Job Family Group:
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