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Fixed Income Rates Applications Support Sr Analyst Assistant Vice President
CitiNew York
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Job Overview
The Fixed Income Rates production management group provides direct support to a diverse set of trading desk all trading under the “Rates” banner. Your responsibilities will be aligned to supporting all the tools that the front office business & traders needs to facilitate its franchise within Citi, providing exposure to the entire breadth of the Rates Technology. We are the first line of technical defense as we work closely with partners in our business including Trading, Sales, Operations & Risk and Controls to operate stable platforms to enable us to the be the best for our clients.
Role / Position Overview:
CITI is seeking a highly motivated candidate for the position of within our global production management team. The successful candidate will be responsible for production management of our suite of core Rates (G10 and Local Markets) applications, working through problems, and dealing with user issues. The candidate will also be responsible for driving engineering initiates, improving process workflows, and eliminating toil through automation by building/implementing solutions.
Responsibilities:
Provide L1/L2 production management for mission-critical applications. This includes providing quick resolutions to app issues, driving stability, efficiency and effectiveness improvements to help us and the business succeed.
Maintains production application systems that have completed the development stage and are running in the daily operations of the firm.
Work closely with the development, Infra teams, QA and business support teams, and the Rates business to determine strategy & priorities and to ensure that the team is meeting the business’ requirements. Ensure team delivers on these priorities and communicated progress effectively o all stakeholders.
Work on technical solutions to be able to streamline, automate existing processes and provide smart monitoring solutions.
Perform appropriate problem-solving tasks before passing to another team with previously agreed upon format, logs, etc.
Own, coordinate, communicate and execute disaster recovering testing, application production releases for your applications
Analyze applications to identify risks, vulnerabilities, performance, and stability issues prior to them occurring, coordinate and work with other teams to ensure they are addressed.
Create and maintain a knowledge base to ensure that knowledge transfer takes place within the team.
Develop a comprehensive understanding of how applications collectively integrate to contribute to achieving business goals. Liaise with business support teams and application development groups.
Provide technical support coverage to all the Rates application, actively monitoring the applications and technical platform SLA’s and KPI’s.
This individual should have detailed knowledge of the applications and the upstream and downstream dependencies. They should be able to understand the application processes, database schema as an expert.
When dealing with major issues, the group would be expected to make key technical recommendations based on their knowledge of the systems and the process flows involved.
Acts as mentor or coach to newer or more junior analysts.
The candidate will spend a portion of their time on development tasks such as new features, scaling, recovery, and automation of manual tasks, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
Champion stability initiatives to enable application high availability for Business-As-Usual which includes better monitoring, failover and resiliency
The candidate will partner closely with each area to perform diagnostic and forensic investigation for outages caused by scale issues in applications
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.
The successful candidate will have the technical skills and aptitude that can bring the latest technology ideas to fruition and support an excellent client experience.
Engage Product/Technology Owners to establish business service level objectives, Service level Indicators to measure performance and then identify hotspots and architectural refinements required.
The candidate will also be responsible to provide Best in Class Production Availability, Resiliency and Predictability to the business and trading functions by improving application logging for better proactive monitoring, designing solutions that are fault tolerant, and building always-on systems for high availability
Deep-dive into current production incidents, understand current design and architectural issues, develop innovative and technical tooling to improving production stability, enabling faster recovery and reducing toil.
Ability to handle incidents, problems and change at a global enterprise level. Calm and analytical when faced with major incidents on critical systems.
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.
Qualifications:
5+ years of experience in an Application Support, Production Management, or related role would be preferred.
Experience tracking issues through tools such as JIRA and ServiceNow.
Experience with some of the below technologies is required:
UNIX (AIX/ Linux) environment
Databases - Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server
Scripting languages - Python, Shell
ITRS Geneos, Appdynamics or alternate APM/Monitoring tools.
ELK/Splunk.
Kubernetes, OpenShift and container management.
Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
Advanced execution capabilities and ability to adjust quickly to changes and re-prioritization.
Ability to plan, organize and prioritize workload.
Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to communicate appropriately to relevant stakeholder.
Ability to engage a large audience and lead the discussion with clear, articulate, and highly assertive communication.
Effectively share information with other support team members and with other technology teams, the ability to work with your colleagues in an all-around team environment.
Willingness to learn, self-motivated.
Experience in Fixed income business knowledge/understanding is preferred.
Experience in supporting Sales and Trading, Risk and Trade Management Platforms or similar systems.
Knowledge/ experience of incident, Change and problem Management procedures
Experience with Dashboard/reporting tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Tableau are nice to have.
Previous experience of Site Reliability Engineering concepts.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
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Job Family Group:
Technology------------------------------------------------------
Job Family:
Applications Support------------------------------------------------------
Time Type:
Full time------------------------------------------------------
Primary Location:
New York New York United States------------------------------------------------------
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$109,120.00 - $163,680.00
In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.
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Anticipated Posting Close Date:
Jun 17, 2026------------------------------------------------------
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