Applications Support Sr Manager - Vice President

Citi • Irving, TX

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About The Position

About the Team: SMBF Production Management Our Production Management team provides critical business and technical support to the Security Markets, Banking and Functions (SMBF); working collaboratively to ensure that our platforms and services operate for our clients, whenever they need them. We act as highly skilled and valued partners to our businesses. Working as part of our Production Management team, you will help deliver a world class client service and experience, by applying engineering, innovation, learning and risk management across our systems and user environments. We interact with a diverse range of people each day, collaborating to solve problems as well as to anticipate and remove them before they occur. Citi’s distinct global network of people, data and relationships creates a mindset that allows us to identify opportunities, manage risks and connect dots for our clients in ways that others cannot. Our people really do make all the difference in our success. We’re a forward-thinking team. We’re looking for ambitious, capable professionals who thrive on collaboration and want to improve how things are done. In return, we offer rewarding work in a supportive environment, clear opportunities for progression and exciting company benefits. Role and Position Overview Citi Wholesale Lending is embarking on a multi-year technology initiative to upgrade our core accounting and servicing application for its Agency, Non-Agency and Bi-lateral businesses globally in order to support growth and strategic objectives including reduction in manual efforts leading to risk mitigation within the environment. The technology stack transformation will include migrating to the Loan IQ platform and exiting current products that support the businesses. A full-service Lending Production Support team will be critical in the transformation programs success. This is an excellent opportunity for someone passionate about technology, but who possesses knowledge of the LoanIQ product. The Apps Support Manager integrates subject matter and industry expertise within this defined area.

Requirements

• 6-10 years’ experience in an Apps Support role is essential.
• At least 3 years of experience with LoanIQ Platform.
• Good knowledge of SQL (Oracle dialect is preferable)
• Experience with REST, JMS, SOAP, Microservice
• Experience with Spring Boot, Swagger, Tomcat and JSON and XML processing
• 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 stakeholder
• Capacity Planning/Forecasting exposure a plus
• Effectively share information with other support team members and with other technology teams
• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Oversee the day-to-day operations of the Irving Lending support team
• Ensure adherence to the global service level, which includes maximizing operational efficiencies, strengthening incident management, problem management and knowledge sharing practices
• Assures adherence to all support process and tool standards and work with Management to create new and/or enhance processes to ensure consistency and quality in “best practices” across the overall support program
• 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 business and operations
• Provide guidance on feedback reviews with development managers, ensuring outstanding issues are tracked to closure, particularly long-term strategic fixes
• Performs other duties and functions as assigned
• 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.
• Champion stability initiatives to enable application high availability for Business-As-Usual which includes better monitoring, failover, and resiliency
• 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
• Focus on people development, coaching and peer feedback
• 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.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees