GPP Global PAYplus Production Support Analyst

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Job Description

GPP Global PAYplus Production Support Analyst

Position Description
CGI, a top five global IT consulting organization, has an immediate need to hire a GPP Production Support Analyst to join our Banking group in Pittsburgh, PA. Come grow with us, build your skills, and experience working with a high performance group of professionals

Your future duties and responsibilities
As a GPP SME:
• Understand the GPP Bank implementation in production and provide application support.
• Possess an in-depth understanding of GPP, database tables, application architecture and End to End application processing with interfacing systems.
• Proactively acknowledge, analyze and identify root causes for Prod issues.
• Provide resolution and workaround wherever possible to reduce client impact.
• Identify areas of improvements in existing GPP implementation architecture.
• Create ad-hoc database scripts and operational procedures for prod issue resolutions.
• Work with onsite development team and vendors to analyze and recreate prod issues.

Level 3 application support
• On-call Rotation on weekly basis to perform day to day activities
• Receiving and Acknowledging tickets with SLA
• Incident priority assessment, triaging and resolution within resolution SLA’s
• Application monitoring and preventive maintenance
• Health Checks and Status reporting on Daily basis

Incident and problem management
• Analyze, troubleshoot and resolve complex production application defects involving GPP
• Identify root cause and devise and implement permanent solutions to recurring defects
• Work with GPP Vendors in creating defects and providing traces, issue recreation steps.

• Participate and support application upgrades / patches, infrastructure maintenance validation
• Identify and Propose process improvements and application monitoring enhancements.
• Support disaster recovery and business resiliency testing / validation.
• Assist clients in Audit reviews and to produce Audit related reports.
• Support LOB/operations on day to day GPP issues, enquiries, concerns and GPP procedures.
• Create optimal GPP queries for reports requested by Audit, Ops, LOB and Change teams.
• Support Risk management (vulnerabilities, patches)
• Monitor production jobs, environments using monitoring tools.

Production Enhancements:
• Analyze existing GPP rules and configurations, SQL queries and services utilized in production and propose enhancements as necessary for achieving better performance.
• Identify any GAPs in existing RTB or Ops procedures and update the procedures accordingly.
• Assist Change team in recreating issues and performing hot fixes in QA environment.
• Follow Bank standards and release management procedures and approvals for any changes.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
7+ years of experience both as a developer and in production support; with hands-on experience working on GPP product

• Proficient in GPP SP 4.0/4.6 or higher
• Java/J2EE with a strong understanding of OOP concepts
• Hands on experience with Web services, MQ, NDM etc.
• XML, ISO20022, NACHA, CSV and other proprietary formats.
• Experience working on Oracle SQL
• UNIX (Basic skills to perform triages, create scripts for automation etc.)
• Proficient in troubleshooting issues from traces, analytical skills and root cause analysis
• WAS Deploy and Configuration knowledge is a plus
• Knowledge on Banking – Payments domain and concepts of payment processing systems.
• Strongly prefer knowledge on ISO20022 standard payments messages, SWIFT and FED messages.
• Clearing systems and payment processing chain knowledge.
• Knowledge with Real-time Payments, FED, SWIFT, ACH payment processing flows.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Tech Stack:
• GPP: 5+ years
• Java/J2EE: 5+ years
• SQL : 4+ years
• MQ: 3+ years
• SOAP Web Services: 3+ years
• Unix: 3+ years
• Monitoring Tools – Dynatrace, TrueSight
• Deploy Tools – Jenkins, Maven, uDeploy

Education: BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, related IT field or equivalent combination of experience and education

What CGI Offers:
We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our benefits package includes multiple medical, dental, & vision options, both a Shared Purchase Plan (SPP) for CGI stocks and a 401(k) plan, as well as numerous other life style benefits. CGI also provides sick leave and vacation pay.
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Skills

·  Java
·  Java Enterprise Editions JEE
·  SQL

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