Senior Application Support Engineer - Assistant Vice President

Location: Pune Maharashtra India, India

The Apps Support Sr Analyst is a seasoned professional role. Applies in-depth disciplinary knowledge, contributing to the development of new techniques and the improvement of processes and work-flow for the area or function. Integrates subject matter and industry expertise within a defined area. Requires in-depth understanding of how areas collectively integrate within the sub-function as well as coordinate and contribute to the objectives of the function and overall business. Evaluates moderately complex and variable issues with substantial potential impact, where development of an approach/taking of an action involves weighing various alternatives and balancing potentially conflicting situations using multiple sources of information. Requires good analytical skills in order to filter, prioritize and validate potentially complex and dynamic material from multiple sources. Strong communication and diplomacy skills are required. Regularly assumes informal/formal leadership role within teams. Involved in coaching and training of new recruits. Significant impact in terms of project size, geography, etc. by influencing decisions through advice, counsel and/or facilitating services to others in area of specialization. Work and performance of all teams in the area are directly affected by the performance of the individual.

**Responsibilities:**

• The Application Support Senior Analyst provides technical and business support for users of Citi Applcations. This includes providing quick resolutions to app issues, driving stability, efficiency and effectiveness improvements to help us and the business succeed.
• Maintains application systems that have completed the development stage and are running in the daily operations of the firm.
• Manages, maintains and supports applications and their operating environments, focusing on stability, quality and functionality against service level expectations.
• Start of day checks, continuous monitoring, and regional handover.
• Perform same day risk reconciliations
• Develop and maintain technical support documentation.
• Identifies ways to maximize the potential of the applications used
• Assess risk and impact of production issues and escalate to business and technology management in a timely manner.
• Ensures that storage and archiving procedures are in place and functioning correctly
• Formulates and defines scope and objectives for complex application enhancements and problem resolution
• Reviews and develops application contingency planning to ensure availability to users.
• Partners with appropriate development and production support areas to prioritize bug fixes and support tooling requirements.
• Participate in application releases, from development, testing and deployment into production.
• Engages in post implementation analysis to ensure successful system design and functionality.
• Considers implications of the application of technology to the current environment. Identifies risks, vulnerabilities and security issues; communicates impact.
• Ensures essential procedures are followed and helps to define operating standards and processes.
• Act as a liaison between users/traders, interfacing internal technology groups and vendors.
• Expected to be able to raise problems to appropriate technology and business teams, while adhering to Service Level Agreements.
• Acts as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts.
• Provides evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual information in complicated and unique situations.
• Directly impacts the business by ensuring the quality of work provided by self and others; impacts own team and closely related work teams.
• Exhibits sound and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills to exchange complex information.
• Active involvement in and ownership of Support Project items, covering Stability, Efficiency, and Effectiveness initiatives.
• Performs other duties and functions as assigned.
• 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.

**Recommended Qualifications:**

• 8-12 years experience in an Application Support role.
• Experience installing, configuring or supporting business applications.
• Experience with some programming languages and willingness/ability to learn.
• Advanced execution capabilities and ability to adjust quickly to changes and re-prioritization
• Effective written and verbal communications including ability to explain technical issues in simple terms that non-IT staff can understand.
• Demonstrated analytical skills
• Issue tracking and reporting using tools
• Knowledge/ experience of problem Management Tools.
• Good all-round technical skills
• Effectively share information with other support team members and with other technology teams
• Ability to plan and organize workload
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate appropriately to relevant stakeholder

**Education:**

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

Lead Level-2 production support functions for business-critical payment applications operating in a 24x7 environment. Act as the senior escalation point for Severity 1 and Severity 2 incidents, ensuring timely triage, containment, recovery, and business communication. Own end-to-end service stability, availability, resiliency, and operational readiness of payment processing platforms. Chair major incident bridges and coordinate recovery efforts across application, infrastructure, database, middleware, cloud, and network teams.

Drive operational excellence through **proactive monitoring, observability, automation, and continuous service improvements. Payments Domain Expertise is critical, Provides functional leadership across payment processing ecosystems,Instant Payments, SWIFT Payments Cross-Border Payments Clearing and Settlement Processing Nostro Reconciliation and Investigation Flows Payment Repair and Exception Handling Demonstrate strong understanding of: ISO 20022 message standards SWIFT MT/MX messages Clearing house integrations Settlement processing lifecycles Sanctions and compliance touchpoints** End-to-end payment transaction flows Provide technical oversight across complex distributed payment platforms hosted on on-premise and cloud infrastructure.

Analyze system performance, transaction bottlenecks, failovers, capacity trends, and infrastructure dependencies.

Platform & Technology Expertise

**Hands-on experience supporting and troubleshooting technologies such as Payment Engines Global PayPlus (GPP) Enterprise payment hubs Instant payment platforms IBM MQ RDQM (Replicated Data Queue Manager) Apache Kafka,MongoDB Oracle SQL-based platforms**

**Linux / Unix Shell scripting Middleware platforms Application servers High Availability and Disaster Recovery environments Cloud** Technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Containerized deployments Cloud monitoring and observability tooling Automation & Generative AI Enablement

Leverage Generative AI and intelligent automation capabilities to improve incident management, knowledge management, and operational efficiency would be an added advantage

Drive adoption of automation-first operational practices across support teams.

Lead detailed Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Post Incident Review (PIR) activities for major incidents.

Identify systemic weaknesses and drive remediation plans with engineering and development teams.

Track corrective and preventive actions through closure.

Engage with senior business stakeholders, payment operations teams, product owners, engineering teams, and external partners.Present incident summaries, stability reports, risk assessments, and service improvement initiatives to senior leadership.Build strong relationships across global technology and operations organizations.

Mentor engineers and support analysts on technical troubleshooting, payments domain knowledge, and operational best practices.Drive service ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement culture.

## **Job Family Group:**

Technology

## **Job Family:**

Applications Support

## **Time Type:**

Full time

## **Most Relevant Skills**

Please see the requirements listed above.

## **Other Relevant Skills**

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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