Applications Support Sr Analyst, Citi

Citi

Location:
India, Chennai

Category:
IT - Administration

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

Not provided

Save Job

Apply Position

Job Description:

The Apps Support Sr Analyst is a seasoned professional role focused on providing high-quality technical and business support for Citi applications. Responsibilities include application maintenance, risk assessment, issue resolution, ensuring stability, and participating in application releases. The role requires expertise in technologies such as Cloudera's Hadoop/Common components, Linux, SQL databases, and programming languages like Python and UNIX shell scripting. Communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills are crucial for this position.

Job Responsibility:

Provides technical and business support for users of Citi Applications
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
Acts 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

Requirements:

5-8 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 stakeholders
Hadoop/Big Data Platform
Working knowledge of various components and technologies under Cloudera distribution like HDFS, Hive, Impala, Spark, YARN, Sentry, Oozie, Kafka
Very good knowledge on analyzing the bottlenecks on the cluster - performance tuning, effective resource usage, capacity planning, investigating
Perform daily performance monitoring of the cluster - Implement best practices, ensure cluster stability and create/analyze performance metrics
Hands-on experience in supporting applications built on Hadoop
Linux - 4-6 years of experience
Database - Good SQL experience in any of the RDBMS
Scheduler - Autosys / CONTROL-M or other schedulers will be of added advantage
Programming Languages - UNIX shell scripting, Python / PERL will be of added advantage
Microsoft - Strong knowledge of Microsoft based operating systems
Experience using/troubleshooting Office with emphasis on Word, Excel
Knowledge/working experience of ITRS Active Console/other monitoring tools
Knowledge/working experience of Autosys/scheduler

Nice to have:

Autosys / CONTROL-M or other schedulers
Python / PERL
Knowledge/working experience of ITRS Active Console

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
June 11, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

View All Jobs In This Company

Job Link Share:

Applications Support Sr Analyst