Application Support Analyst

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Job Description Responsible for the stability, performance, and reliability of our digital banking core. Ensure “zero-downtime” operations by leading rapid incident response, performing deep-dive root cause analysis (RCA), and collaborating closely with the Finacle Core team to resolve complex integration bottlenecks.

• Finacle Support Liaison: Serve as the primary technical point of escalation for all integration issues involving Finacle and coordinate with the Core Banking team to troubleshoot data discrepancies, connectivity drops, and API failures.
• Incident Command: Ensure clear communication with stakeholders Problem Management: Ensure the “blameless” RCA process to identify systemic issues and prevent recurring outages in the integration layer.
• Recurring Incident Rate: Reduce the volume of repeat incidents by 30% through effective Problem Management and permanent bug fixes.
• Monitoring Coverage: Ensure 100% of production microservices have automated health checks and p99 latency alerts.
• Environment Health: Monitor the stability of OpenShift and other servers, ensuring the optimal performance of the middleware services running within them.
• Proactive Monitoring: Drive the strategy for advanced alerting and logging (using Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or Dynatrace). Ensure that support teams are alerted to anomalies before they impact end-users.
• Patch & Release Support: Oversee the safe deployment of hotfixes and platform updates, ensuring that automated rollbacks are in place for failed changes.
• Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR): Achieve an average MTTR of < 45 minutes for critical (P1) integration incidents.
• SLA Compliance: Maintain 99.99% uptime for critical integration gateways connecting to Finacle.
• First-Touch Resolution: Increase the percentage of incidents resolved by the Platform Support team without escalating to the Engineering/Development squads.

Qualifications

• BSc IT, Computer Sciences or related field.
• Relevant professional certification such as ITIL Foundation, Sun Certified Java Developer (SCJP), Oracle Certified Associate (OCA), Microsoft Certified Professional and Developer (MCP, MCSD) can be an added advantage.

Experience

• 3-4years deep operational understanding of Finacle Core Banking (e.g., troubleshooting Finacle Integrator, batch job failures, or ISO8583/REST messaging).

• Expert-level ability to read and debug Java code. Ability to navigate and troubleshoot Java platform utilities is a significant plus. Strong experience supporting containerized workloads in OpenShift, including log analysis, pod debugging, and resource scaling.

• Experience with Terraform/Ansible for environment automation and troubleshooting and Kafka/RabbitMQ for message-queue monitoring. Medium proficiency in Oracle PL/SQL for data investigation and performance tuning within the Finacle database environment.

• Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Checking Things
• Documenting Facts
• Embracing Change
• Following Procedures
• Interpreting Data
• Producing Output

Technical Competencies:

• Application Support

• Business Analysis Environments and Perspectives

• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning

• Continuous Deployment

• Database Administration

• Project Management (Project Mgmt)

• Stakeholder Management

• Testing (unit, regression, integration)

• Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

• Standard Bank Group is committed to fair and inclusive employment practices. We aim to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including people with disabilities. We strive to create an environment where everyone has an equal opportunity to contribute and grow.

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