Application Support Analyst
Citi · Chennai · 2–3 yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-28
Tech stack: Kafka, Linux, Python, SQL, Unix
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About the role
The Wealth Data & Analytics (DnA) Production Management team operates a unified platform, providing essential data for wealth management services to Ultra High Net Worth clients globally, including Citi Private Bank, Citi Gold, and Wealth at Work. This scalable, regulatory-compliant, and global platform processes millions of daily transactions, enabling real-time financial decisions, data integrity, and critical business operations. The successful candidate will support and stabilize this foundational data infrastructure, crucial for delivering world-class private banking services.
Responsibilities: - The Apps Support Intmd Analyst provides technical and business support for users of Citi Applcations.
- Utilizes good understanding of apps support procedures and concepts and basic knowledge of other technical areas to field issues and queries from stakeholders, provide short-term resolutions and work with relevant technology partners for long term remediation.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of how areas of apps support collectively integrate to contribute to achieving business goals.
- Act as a liaison between users/traders, interfacing internal technology groups and vendors
- Participates in disaster recovery testing
- Participate in application releases, from development, testing and deployment into production.
- perform post release checkouts after application releases and infrastructure updates.
- Develop and maintain technical support documentation.
- Considers implications of the application of technology to the current environment.
- Analyzes applications to identify risks, vulnerabilities and security issues.
- Makes evaluative judgments based on analysis of factual information; resolves problems by identifying and selecting solutions Cooperation with Development colleagues to prioritize bug fixes and support tooling requirements.
- Directly impacts the business by ensuring the quality of work provided by self and others; impacts own team and closely related work teams.
- Exchanges ideas and information
- Active involvement in and ownership of Support Project items, covering Stability, Efficiency, and Effectiveness initiatives.
- Performs other duties and functions as assigned in a concise and logical manner.
- Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
- Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
- Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
- 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.
Qualifications: - Application Support Experience:
- Atleast 2-3 year of strong Application production support experience in the financial industry using call/ticketing software
- Hadoop/Big Data Platform
- Very good knowledge on analyzing the bottlenecks on the cluster - performance tuning, effective resource usage, capacity planning, investigating.
- Perform daily performance monitoring of the cluster
- Implement best practices, ensure cluster stability and create/analyze performance metrics.
- Hands-on experience in supporting applications built on Hadoop.
- Linux 2- 3 years of experience Database
- Good SQL experience in any of the RDBMS.
- Scheduler Autosys schedules will be of added advantage.
- Programming Languages UNIX shell scripting, Python / PERL will be of added advantage.
- Microsoft Strong knowledge of Microsoft based operating systems using/troubleshooting Office with emphasis on Word, Excel.
- Additional Skills (preferable)
- Working knowledge of various components and technologies under Cloudera distribution like HDFS, Hive, Impala, Spark, YARN, Kafka and good understanding of NEO4J and Couchbase Databases
- Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience
Qualifications
- Application Support Experience:
- Atleast 2-3 year of strong Application production support experience in the financial industry using call/ticketing software
- Hadoop/Big Data Platform
- Very good knowledge on analyzing the bottlenecks on the cluster - performance tuning, effective resource usage, capacity planning, investigating.
- Perform daily performance monitoring of the cluster
- Implement best practices, ensure cluster stability and create/analyze performance metrics.
- Hands-on experience in supporting applications built on Hadoop.
- Linux 2- 3 years of experience Database
- Good SQL experience in any of the RDBMS.
- Scheduler Autosys schedules will be of added advantage.
- Programming Languages UNIX shell scripting, Python / PERL will be of added advantage.
- Microsoft Strong knowledge of Microsoft based operating systems using/troubleshooting Office with emphasis on Word, Excel.
- Additional Skills (preferable)
- Working knowledge of various components and technologies under Cloudera distribution like HDFS, Hive, Impala, Spark, YARN, Kafka and good understanding of NEO4J and Couchbase Databases
- Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience
Responsibilities
- The Apps Support Intmd Analyst provides technical and business support for users of Citi Applcations.
- Utilizes good understanding of apps support procedures and concepts and basic knowledge of other technical areas to field issues and queries from stakeholders, provide short-term resolutions and work with relevant technology partners for long term remediation.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of how areas of apps support collectively integrate to contribute to achieving business goals.
- Act as a liaison between users/traders, interfacing internal technology groups and vendors
- Participates in disaster recovery testing
- Participate in application releases, from development, testing and deployment into production.
- perform post release checkouts after application releases and infrastructure updates.
- Develop and maintain technical support documentation.
- Considers implications of the application of technology to the current environment.
- Analyzes applications to identify risks, vulnerabilities and security issues.
- Makes evaluative judgments based on analysis of factual information; resolves problems by identifying and selecting solutions Cooperation with Development colleagues to prioritize bug fixes and support tooling requirements.
- Directly impacts the business by ensuring the quality of work provided by self and others; impacts own team and closely related work teams.
- Exchanges ideas and information
- Active involvement in and ownership of Support Project items, covering Stability, Efficiency, and Effectiveness initiatives.
- Performs other duties and functions as assigned in a concise and logical manner.
- Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
- Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
- Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
- 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.