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Application Support Analyst GFT

Job in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Listing for: 0000050007 Royal Bank of Canada
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-03-02
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    IT Support, IT Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, IT Consultant
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Job Description

What is the Opportunity?We are looking for a highly motivated Application Support Analyst to coordinate production support activities for all major systems and related subsystems to ensure the integrity of computer-generated  this role, you'll be apart of the Global Functions Technology (GFT) team. Global Functions Technology is part of RBC’s Technology and Operations division. GFT’s impact is far-reaching as we collaborate with partners from across the company to deliver innovative and transformative IT solutions.

Our clients represent Risk, Finance, HR, CAO, Audit, Legal, Compliance, Financial Crime, Capital Markets, Personal and Commercial Banking and Wealth Management. We also lead the development of digital tools and platforms to enhance collaboration.
What will you do?
  • Investigates, resolves, and reports on medium- to highly-complex technical issues requiring business application understanding.

  • Monitor and investigate JCL Batch job executions, troubleshoot failures, and ensure timely resolutions to maintain smooth operations

  • Proactively identifies and acts on emerging issues (and works with Development teams) to resolve them in the short and long term. Many of these issues require rapid response and the ability to synthesize multiple technical factors quickly in order to arrive at a workaround or solution within hours

  • Makes recommendations on process improvements and enhances system and support documentation for lower levels of support

  • Ensuring the documentation and tracking of all shift turnover issues

  • Contributing to job scheduling and report distribution, as well as data center standards development and enforcement.

  • Monitoring the library to insure that the proper generation of data files are available for production runs and tracks resolution

  • Work in a 24x7 support model

  • What do you need to succeed?
    Must have:
  • Minimum 3 years of experience as an Applications Analyst, or equivalent experience in IT Operations and Monitoring practices

  • Experience with both real-time and batch transaction process monitoring and issue response

  • Proficient in SQL with expertise in developing, optimizing, and indexing complex queries to enhance performance and efficiency

  • Operating systems: experience with multiple operating systems and the integration of processing across different platforms will make you more effective in this role. Unix experience preferred.

  • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) with the ability to express technical issues in business terms

  • Displays a sense of ownership and exhibits flexibility, resilience, and resourcefulness

  • Experience with the incident and problem management lifecycles

  • Working experience with Service Now or comparable IT Service Management tools

  • Nice-to-have
    :
  • Previous AML experience, or AML knowledge

  • Passion for automation

  • Experience with monitoring and logging technologies such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, ELK, Splunk, etc

  • What’s in it for you?We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions

  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

  • Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities by doing challenging work

  • Opportunities to building close relationships with clients in other teams and platforms

  • #LI-POST#TechPJ
    Job Skills
    Computer Operations, Customer Service, Enterprise Application Delivery, Group Problem Solving, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Interpersonal Relationships, IT Service Management (ITSM), Job Control Language (JCL), Python (Programming Language), SRE Observability, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Structured Query Language (SQL), System and Console Operations, System Applications, Systems Software, Unix
    Additional Job Details

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