About the Role
Join Global Blue as a Systems Analyst to deliver cutting-edge Tax-Free Solutions that power international traveler shopping experiences. You will oversee critical backend services and customer-facing platforms, focusing on delivering the highest quality services to partners. This role involves deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting components within the Tax-Free Shopping ecosystem, primarily in the APAC region, acting as a bridge between European central teams and local organizations in Japan and APAC.
Responsibilities
- Plan, document, and perform changes for supported services.
- Deploy software releases to production and non-production environments.
- Set up monitoring and alerting for services.
- Resolve incidents/requests within SLA, identify root causes, and drive problem management.
- Assess current systems and processes to develop new tools for service reliability.
- Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering teams for prioritization.
- Provide procedures and documentation for 1st Level Support and other stakeholders.
- Maintain effective communication channels with all parties.
- Participate in on-call duty for IT services as part of a team schedule.
Requirements
- Close collaboration within Infrastructure and Operations teams, external business partners, government agencies, and their IT partners.
- Familiarity with Application Support / service delivery.
- Ability to read and understand code.
- Experience in collaboration with software development and Project Management teams.
- Experience working with databases at a level to analyze available data.
- Practical understanding of software testing methodologies.
- Basic skills in web server administration.
- Understanding of web services and service-oriented architecture.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- Experience in Finance, Payments, Retail, Travelling, or any other transactional oriented business, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Ability to work with Complex IT Systems.
Skills
- Communication: Clearly and effectively communicate requirements and objectives.
- Documentation: Accurately document work and share with the organization.
- Problem Solving Capability: Own the troubleshooting process and find solutions.
- Analysis: Analytical thinker with a big-picture approach.
- Quality-first mentality: Deliver high-quality service and identify gaps in monitoring and service delivery.
- Excellent standard of written communication.
- Fluent English.
- Business level Japanese – mandatory.
- Flexible and highly organized.
- Basic scripting skills.
- SPLUNK or other log management & analysis platform knowledge.
Location
- APAC region
- Japan
Work Type
- On-call duty
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
About the Company
- Global Blue delivers cutting-edge Tax-Free Solutions that power international traveller shopping experiences.
