Equity Derivatives Production Support Tech Lead Analyst

Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide 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. We enable 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.

The Equity Derivatives Senior Support specialist is accountable for delivering an exceptional level of service the Equity Derivatives business, through domain and technology expertise.  The role is expected to contribute to standards around which others will operate, and requires a strong commercial awareness, including how technology contributes to the delivery of business objectives.

Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others in Technology, and also to communicate effectively to senior business stakeholders.  The role has responsibility for delivering improvements in resiliency, efficiency and risk management for the Equity Derivatives technology platform . The ability to mentor more junior members of staff is essential.

Responsibilities:

• Provides technical oversight across systems and applications; leverage skills across multiple apps support areas.

• Provide a holistic view of the production environment for both technology and business management, working closely as a trusted partner for senior business heads.

• Provide guidance on feedback reviews with development managers, ensuring outstanding issues are tracked to closure, particularly long-term strategic fixes.

• Performs 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.

• Consults with the primary clients of the application in conjunction with development managers in order to understand the strategic objectives of users.

• Requires awareness of audit and compliance related issues.

• Contributes to formulation of strategies for apps support and other functional areas.

• Champion stability initiatives to enable application high availability for Business-As-Usual which includes better monitoring, failover and resiliency

• Ability to handle incidents, problems and change at a global enterprise level. Calm and analytical when faced with major incidents on critical systems.

• Responsible for delivery of end results and shares responsibility for budget management which directly impacts the apps support area; accountable for resource planning.

• Manages customer satisfaction requirements of operational procedures to achieve a suitable outcome for all stakeholders

• Exhibits 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.

• Focus on people development, evaluating subordinates' performance and making decisions on pay increases, hiring, terminations and other personnel actions and deputize for the regional support manager.

• Performs other duties and functions as assigned

• 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• Relevant experience in a business-facing Apps Support role would be an added advantage, but not essential

• Strong technical background in Windows, Linux and SQL

• Highly assertive communications skills, commanding personality. Ability to engage a large audience and lead the discussion with clear, articulate, and highly assertive communication. Must show confidence in all communications

• 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

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

What we’ll provide you:

By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

• A discretional annual performance related bonus

• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Program

• Pension Plan

• Paid Parental Leave

• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends

• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.
 

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