Application Support Senior Manager - Treasury Trade Solutions Technology

Citi ,
Belfast, Antrim
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Citi, the world leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity. **Role Overview:** We are seeking an experienced Application Support Senior Manager within the Institutional Clients Group (ICG) Production Support organization, specifically within Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) Technology. You will be the support manager for a critical trade finance product processor application and will operate in the capacity of TRADE EMEA Production Support Lead. The role involves management responsibilities in leading a team of experienced to entry level engineers working across the globe, developing a team through coaching and mentoring. Given Citi's dedication to digitalization and modernization in TRADE finance, this is a very exciting and interesting opportunity to join the team. **Key Responsibilities:** + Providing strong leadership to the Belfast Support team + Working with TTS Support leads on key support functions such as efficiency and stability + Working with TTS Support leads globally to work on key projects to improve support procedures and functions, including on-boarding new applications into Production Support + Providing Technical contribution to the team + Incident & Problem Management + Change Management + Release Management + Knowledge Management (through Wiki and Training Sessions) + Alert Management (through the development of bespoke application monitoring) **Technical Skills:** + Support or Development experience primarily in UNIX systems with AIX, MQ, ORACLE Database, Java, SQL, NDM. + Experience in WebSphere architecture and business objects is a plus. + Basic networking knowledge (load balancers, network protocols) + Experience in Autosys job scheduling and setup. + Experience in monitoring tool like ITRS. + Experience writing scripts using Unix shell, database queries, generating capacity and performance reports + Working in multiple application support model is helpful. + Understanding of client server architecture (clustered and non-clustered) **Competencies:** + Significant experience in technical production support roles preferably within a large scale, global organization + Prior experience in large scale enterprise application support, capacity planning, optimization, re-engineering, performance fine-tuning and cost optimization + Demonstrate accountability, leadership, independent initiatives and willingness to lead and work with teams across multiple locations and time-zones + Direct and matrix management skills + Leading multiple applications establishing ITIL standard methodologies processes and procedures + Ability to manage change and release implementation, review and sign off on the all application related changes and ensure all the changes are deployment within the timeline and post implementation validation are performed. + Experience in leading staff in a production support group in a high availability / mission critical environment and able to communicate across business and technology partners at varying levels across a medium to large scale enterprise. + Preferred production support experience in banking industry would be highly advantageous **Development Value:** You will gain significant experience in multiple technologies that we use across Trade Services, giving you exposure to new and existing methodologies and systems. It will also give you an insight into and understanding of the Supplier Finance business. We are embedding I.T.I.L Service Management methodology into our support teams so you will also gain significant experience of this industry standard and recognized methodology for service support and delivery. **Education:** + Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferred _Exceptional candidates who do not meet these criteria may be considered for the role provided they have the necessary skills and experience_ **What we Offer:** As well as a competitive salary and consideration for a yearly discretionary bonus Citi offer; + 23 days paid annual leave + Award winning pension scheme, + Life assurance and + Private medical insurance with Bupa healthcare. In addition, we offer a competitive maternity, paternity and adoption leave scheme and employees also have the option (provided they have a student loan from the Student Loan Company) to divert saver and company match contributions to their student loan. We pride ourselves on our ability to offer employees a number of lifestyle benefits including; on site rest

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