Sr Operations Analyst

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services.

Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results.

We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions.

Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Summary of This Role

Responsible for the maintenance, configuration and operational analysis of system performance to ensure optimal processing efficiency.

Works closely with IT Technical and Application Support teams in identifying and resolving processing issues. Administers multiple software packages and enterprise class server systems involved in the analysis of system and batch performance.

Performs problem determination, analysis and executes corrective action. Has the role to create process scripting and automation to ensure consistency and high platform availability.

Creates and maintains various analytical reports utilized by both technical and business owners. Supports all Business Continuity activities.

Provides operational support for all conversion / deconversion activities. Communicates with both internal / external clients.

What Part Will You Play?

As a technical Subject Matter Expert (SME), administers, creates, interprets, and evaluates the relevance of business metric reports / data across distributed computing environments that determine processing performance.

Provides SME advice and support in the development and maintenance of predictive modeling tools to enhance performance related to scheduling, prioritization, and coordination of production files by proactively assessing processing performance and future client needs.

As the technical SME, leads the development of automation tools, products, applications, and business processes to increase productivity, eliminate duplications, and coordinate information requirements and evaluates the effectiveness of job prioritization and the maximization of resources.

Provides SME advice to all levels of management and team members on interpretation / development / revision of policies and procedures.

• Provide strategic guidance to Subject Matter Experts, training, communications and stakeholders to ensure smooth "go live" when new systems or processes are moved to production.
• Provide in-depth analysis to implement tuning opportunities to improve run-time optimization and work as a technical expert with the business / application teams to remedy issues.

Design and evaluate analytical tools utilizing statistical data to identify opportunities for improvement and consistency across all environments.

• Act as a primary owner of the backend financial transaction processing and computing environment.
• As a technical SME, lead operational direction for all Business Continuity activities and conversion / deconversion activities.
• Lead communications, keeping internal partners informed of all critical issues.
• Provides training and SME guidance to lower level team members.

What Are We Looking For in This Role?

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree; Relevant Experience or Degree in : Information Technology, Science, Technology or Business related study;

relevant experience in lieu of education

• Typically Minimum 8+ Years Relevant Exp
• Information Technology Field and / or Bankcard Industry

Preferred Qualifications

• IT or Business related study
• 10+ Years Relevant Exp
• Operations experience with on-prem Windows VMs. SQL Server, Google Cloud

What Are Our Desired Skills and Capabilities?

• Personality - Demonstrated examples as a Planner, Coordinator, Self Starter and being Proactive. How aptitude for learning and retaining complex information.
• Skills / Knowledge - Having broad expertise or unique knowledge, uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways.
• Job Complexity - Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles.

Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Creates peer / coworker networks involving coordination among groups.

• Supervision - Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments. May supervise the activities of others.
• Multi tasking - Ability to multi-task and adapt to several projects at time.
• Enterprise system operations and Distributed computing experience - Ability to understand concepts of enterprise class distributed work and processes tied to them in both on-prem data centers and in the Cloud
• Application / Productivity software - Advanced knowledge of software such as Microsoft suite, SQL language, Powershell, etc
• Skill and experience in analyzing network architectures including router, firewall and switch paths using common Windows software tools plus more advanced network analysis tools
• Demonstrated Experience developing solutions in Powershell.
• Demonstrated Experience developing medium complexity SQL queries
• Some .NET code development experience and / or application architecture experience, preferred

Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law.

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