Applications Support Technology – Assistant Vice President

Citi

Apps Support Senior Analyst in Applications Support team providing business and technical support for Reference Data Applications at Citi. Focused on ensuring production stability and delivering client experience through innovation.

Posted 5/27/2026full-timePune • 🇮🇳 IndiaLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

KafkaKubernetesLinuxMongoDBNoSQLOpenShiftOracleShell ScriptingSplunkUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide technical and business support for Citi users, addressing daily queries and issues, driving stability, efficiency, and risk management improvements to help the department and overall business succeed.
Provide resolution to critical incidents including prioritization, timely escalation and communication to key stakeholders, driving immediate fixes, as well as comprehensive post-mortems and root cause analysis of all problems for recurrence prevention.
Support the planning and execution of system changes, including application releases, infrastructure maintenance, and continuity of business tests, ensuring production stability is maintained.
Maintain and optimize the production monitoring/observability estate by implementing new features and leveraging analytics to enhance system visibility and proactive alerting.
Collaborate closely with development teams to recommend and implement improvements to application stability, performance, and recoverability.
Identify opportunities and implement automation tools to reduce operational toil, improve efficiency, and mitigate risk.
Use available automation tool to perform COB test few times in a year to enhance the application resiliency.
Proactively develop, maintain, and continuously improve comprehensive technical support documentation, including runbooks, knowledge base articles, troubleshooting guides, system architecture diagrams, and application recovery procedures.
Proactively and continuously assesses the implications of new and existing technology applications within the current operational environment, serving as a critical gatekeeper for production stability and security.
Operates with significant independence and exercises sound, autonomous judgment in complex, high-stakes production environments, requiring minimal direct supervision.
This role serves as a primary Subject Matter Expert (SME) for applications, infrastructure, and operational processes, directly advising senior stakeholders, business units, and other team members on critical technical issues, strategic improvements, and risk mitigation.
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years' experience in an Application Support role.
Deep expertise in Unix/Linux and advanced Shell scripting.
Proficiency with enterprise monitoring tools (e.g., ITRS Geneos, AppDynamics) and log aggregation platforms (e.g., Splunk, ELK).
Experience with some programming languages and willingness/ability to learn.
Experience with containerization platforms (OpenShift, Kubernetes).
Experience with relational (Oracle, MSSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
Strong knowledge of messaging solutions (Tibco EMS, MQ, Kafka).
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.
Ability to plan and organize workload.
Proven expertise in supporting high-volume, mission-critical applications that process, manage, and distribute financial data related to securities, pricing, and rates.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Rewarding work in a supportive environment with clear opportunities for progression.

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Hard Skills & Tools

UnixLinuxShell scriptingITRS GeneosAppDynamicsSplunkELKOpenShiftKubernetesOracle

Soft Skills

analytical skillseffective communicationproblem-solvingorganizational skillsadaptabilityindependencerisk assessmentstakeholder managementtechnical documentationcollaboration