Application Support Tech Lead Analyst in Sydney

The Application Support Tech Lead Analyst is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within their field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in their job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business, requiring basic commercial awareness. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required to guide, influence, and convince others, particularly colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. This role has a significant impact on the area through complex deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of technical experts for the new product offering - Digital Custody Assets.
• Partner with multiple technology teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals; identify and define necessary system enhancements; analyze existing system logic, identify problems; and recommend and implement solutions.
• Perform Incident/Outage Management, proactively collaborate with Development and Infrastructure partners to identify and remediate stability risks, and engage in crisis management and cross-region handholding of issues.
• Investigate incidents reported across a range of applications within our Custody Digital Assets and Settlements applications.
• Engage with ITIL processes including Major Incident management, problem management, change management, etc.
• Operate independently to identify process bottlenecks and proactively drive improvements by engaging the appropriate teams.
• Experience in performing resiliency activities such as disaster recovery coordination from Production to Contingency site from an Application Support perspective, and Application component level resiliency tests.
• Confidently handle outage communication with stakeholders in Business and Operations.
• Actively participate in defining and implementing application onboarding guidelines and standards in line with Non-Functional Requirements.
• Provide direct technical guidance to development teams on stability and supportability improvements for the applications.
• Manage the performance and development of team members, fostering a high-performance culture aligned with organizational objectives.
• Excellent team player and able to operate without authority to navigate through teams and complex issues and tasks.

Recommended Qualifications:

• 8 plus years' experience.
• Practical problem solving and strategic thinking skills.
• Demonstrated leadership, interpersonal skills, and relationship building skills.
• Service-oriented attitude.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working or leading requirement gathering efforts for multiple large development projects at one time.
• Proficient using basic technical tools and systems.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Skills and Competencies:

• Blockchain and Crypto Currency Technology Fundamentals.
• Understanding of distributed ledgers, consensus mechanisms, and cryptographic principles as they apply to digital asset custody and settlement workflows.
• Cloud and Distributed Technology Support Experience.
• Experience in supporting target technology stacks such as ECS, OpenShift, and microservices at L2/L3 level in distributed, cloud-native environments.
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) hands-on experience with modern observability, monitoring tools, automation tools, and resiliency management — including Open Telemetry, Grafana, and Google Cloud Observability (GCO).
• Proven leadership capabilities with a focus on team development and performance management.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted tools and a demonstrated willingness to continuously learn and adopt emerging technologies to enhance support efficiency and innovation.

Technical Skills:

• SQL Server – SQL, Stored Procedures.
• Oracle or other RDBMS Database performance and tuning.
• Cloud Technologies (e.g., Openshift) and Micro Services.
• Elastic Stack (ELK), Grafana, Google Cloud Observability (GCO) preferred.

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred.

Equal Opportunity Statement: Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.