About the Role
We are seeking a seasoned Senior Production Support Analyst to lead our payments hyper-care team, ensuring the stability, integrity, and performance of critical payment systems. This role involves technical resolution, team leadership, and managing high-stakes stakeholder interactions in a fast-paced, global environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of production support analysts, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
- Manage team schedules, on-call rotations, and performance to ensure 24/7 coverage and optimal team effectiveness.
- Act as the primary point of command for major incidents and escalations from various stakeholders, including senior leadership and key clients.
- Drive complex investigations across multiple technical and business teams, ensuring accountability and swift progress toward resolution.
- Own and manage the communication flow during critical incidents, providing clear, timely, and regular updates to all stakeholders, including executive leadership.
- Serve as a senior technical point of contact for clients on significant issues, expertly handling escalations and reinforcing confidence.
- Proactively oversee the monitoring of end-to-end payment flows, using tools like ITRS Geneos and Grafana, to anticipate and prevent issues.
- Utilize deep analytical skills to identify systemic issues, recurring trends, and opportunities for strategic improvement, driving initiatives to enhance system stability.
- Ensure the team creates and maintains clear, comprehensive documentation for all processes, issue resolutions, and system knowledge, establishing best practices.
Requirements
- 5-7+ years of experience in a production support role.
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL (e.g., SQL Developer) and MongoDB (e.g., Compass).
- Demonstrated expertise with enterprise monitoring tools, specifically ITRS Geneos and/or Grafana.
- Deep experience with IT Service Management (ITSM) ticketing tools, such as ServiceNow.
- Proven ability to lead a technical team, manage schedules, and handle escalations.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to command a room and articulate complex technical issues to diverse audiences, from engineers to C-level executives.
- Proficiency with standard corporate communication channels including Outlook and Microsoft Teams.
- Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, with a track record of driving root cause analysis for complex issues.
- A self-motivated leader with a strong sense of ownership, eager to drive initiatives and perform with composure under pressure.
- Extensive experience in the payments domain is highly desirable.
- A deep, architectural understanding of the entire payment processing flow.
Skills
- SQL
- MongoDB
- ITRS Geneos
- Grafana
- ServiceNow
- ITSM
- Communication
- Interpersonal Skills
- Analytical Skills
- Problem-Solving
- Leadership
- Payments Domain Knowledge
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Full time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5-7+ years
About the Company
- Citi is an equal opportunity employer.
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