Mid-Level Switch Support Analyst Transaction Junction - Cape Town - Transaction Junction (Pty) Ltd

Description

DESCRIPTION of the Switch Operations Support Team Role:

Job Purpose:

The primary purpose of this role is to form a crucial analytical part of the Switch operations support team in the production payment environment, leading investigations, initiating deployments and implementations, and ensuring continuous improvement of preventative and proactive measures to enable system stability.

Responsibilities:

• Effective resolution of escalated issues via root cause analysis and effective resolution and/or providing concise reporting. Implementation of application software, APIs, component updates and patches.
  Represent the Switch squad in CAB.
• Ensure internal change requests are submitted, deployed, communicated, and followed up on for resolution.
• Provide 3rd line support functions for the payment service environments.
• Ensure production platforms are reviewed periodically for stability, maintenance, and housekeeping is performed.
• Identify enhancements to improve supportability, operability, automation, and performance of systems.
• Maintain the internal servers where required and perform day-to-day admin tasks.
• Track and report on incidents.
• Conduct SQL/PostgreSQL scripting and DB maintenance where required.
• Monitor and refine metrics to be used as a baseline for monitoring and alerts.
• Serve as the third point of contact for customers seeking technical assistance.
• Ensure individual incidents are properly investigated, minimizing financial and reputational damage.
• Holistically assess customer problems areas to identify trends.
• Escalate an unresolved problem through the internal escalations process to the development staff.
• Follow up and drive escalations.
• Ensure the customer is appropriately informed through the approved channels.
• Manage the incident queue for escalation to the development team where necessary, including triage and re-prioritization.
• Respond to outages and failures with urgency and priority.
• Improve fault tolerance even when operational conditions are not optimal.
• Ensure the solution is maintainable, and actively seek methods to reduce downtime.
• Ensure the solution is durable so that as user volumes and requirements change the solution can evolve over the long term.
• Ensure the solution simplifies support and maintenance support through traceability, and effective error messaging.

Customer Service:

• Provide after-hours support according to a standby schedule.
• Provide resolution for support requests to customers, according to the Service Level Agreement.
• Configure, troubleshoot, isolate, repair, and resolve all customer issues.
• Ensure regular and effective communication of planned and unplanned outages to customers with resolutions within SLA.
• Ensure alerts or escalations to internal teams are resolved timeously and communicated to internal & external stakeholders within SLA.
• Establish and maintain a positive professional relationship with customers.
• Prepare training documentation as and when changes are implemented.
• Adherence to SLA to ensure consistent and predictable service delivery.
• Support tactical and strategic goals of the operations team & Transaction Junction as a whole.
• Provide training and mentoring for support team members, including escalated support requests.
• Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication, and collaboration across the organization.
• Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders to develop joint solutions.

Self-Management:

• Set an example through personal quality and productivity standards and ways of working with others.
• Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures.
• Plan and prioritize, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands.
• Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change.
• Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organizational and Squad needs.

Leadership:

• Contributes to the team by applying their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
• Coach, counsel and train offline squad, operation manager, and staff to apply, support, sustain and develop a continuous improvement culture.
• Role model behaviour and motivate team members in line with the Transaction Junction values and ethos.
• Guidance of others and active development of self to improve on their technical and communication abilities so that capabilities and deliveries are better understood and thus trusted and applied throughout the business.
• Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Customer Focus
• Instils Trust
• Cultivates Innovation
• Collaborates
• Situational Adaptability
• Business Insight
• Manage Complexity
• Plan and Align
• Balances Stakeholders
• Drives Results
• Ensures Accountability
• Financial Acumen

Education:

• Matric (required)
• Post graduate Degree / Diploma in Information Technology or relevant work experience. (required)
• Microsoft SQL and / PostgreSQL qualification (required)
• Developer software is an advantage.
• Minimum 1-year experience with databases.
• Minimum 1-year server/client-side languages.

Experience:

• Minimum 4-5 years' experience in a similar role in the payments industry. (required)
• Relevant and extensive experience in transactional payment processes. (required)
• Exposure and experience with SQL and basic coding skills (required)
• Experience in ITIL Foundation (advantageous).
• Linux experience (advantageous).
• Cloud base experience (advantageous).
• Strong technical skills (ideally Postilion Application suite, and commercial experience of supporting switching solutions for large, complex end-user organizations).
• Experience of financial transaction processing will be advantageous.
• Exceptional analytical abilities, including the interpretation of large data sets and deciphering the findings logically.
• Action orientated.
• You communicate your actions and intentions clearly – verbally as well as in written form.
• Excellent problem-solving and attention to detail.
• Ability to multi-task in a deadline-driven environment and show initiative.
• Strong organisational and resourceful capabilities.
• High levels of attention to detail and resilience.
• Exposure and experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace/ Elastic/Grafana and Prometheus, Cockroach DB etc. (advantageous).