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Join us as an Application Support Analyst at Barclays, where you'll provide technical support by troubleshooting and resolving complex issues, ensuring timely resolution of incidents, and communicating effectively with stakeholders. You'll also benefit from being part of a vast professional network, collaborating with industry mentors and experts. You will need to be able to do out of hours support on a rota basis.
Job Responsibility
Provide technical support by troubleshooting and resolving complex issues, ensuring timely resolution of incidents, and communicating effectively with stakeholders
To effectively monitor and maintain the bank’s critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimising disruption to operations
Provision of technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client of group of clients
Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring tools/metrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance
Maintenance of a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self-service opportunities and knowledge sharing
Analysis of system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a resolution to these issues
Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific support and stakeholder management
Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service impacting risks and issues
Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency
Requirements
Run The Bank roles within financial institutions, specifically in live job dump solving and an evaluative mindset to resolve incident queries
Cobol, Abend-aid, DB2 database fact finding and basic JCL skills within the banking sector
ITIL concepts and best practices and using Service Management Tool - Service First / SNOW for incident, problem and change management
Nice to have
Personal attributes essential to performing role including capabilities, knowledge, and experience as well as good communication (verbal and written) and suitable for a diverse audience, with the ability to communicate in a positive, friendly and effective manner with 'technical' or 'non-technical' users/ customers
Awareness in batch monitoring tools (TWS on the mainframe) and exposure to IMS or knowledge of it would also be beneficial
Good communication (verbal and written) and suitable for a diverse audience, with the ability to communicate in a positive, friendly and effective manner with 'technical' or 'non-technical' users/ customers