Senior Applications Support Analyst - Defence Solutions - Perm - North

Sydney  ‐ Onsite
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Are you an Application Support Analyst looking for a new challenge? Are you seeking the opportunity to work for a successful, growing, profitable company?
This is an excellent opportunity to get involved with a market leader in the provision of defence/healthcare workforce and corporate governance solutions.

The position is responsible for advanced application support and technical leadership.
Your role will include the following responsibilities:

  • Providing timely & consistent technical solutions to external customers & third parties based on service level agreements, and to support Implementation Consultants who are engaged in client-services deployments
  • Providing technical leadership, coaching & mentoring of the customer support team
  • Providing timely & consistent data to Continuing Engineering via the defect tracking system
  • Providing advanced technical support & leadership
  • Assisting with the development of a structured technical triage & escalation framework for a timely and consistent customer support experience
  • Ensure content of technical training courses required to support products & ensure products are designed for supportability
  • Improving the availability of quality technical knowledge-base articles through authoring and validating technical FAQs or other technical root cause reports
  • Ensuring the technical readiness of the customer support team to support new product releases and upgrades
  • Developing strong customer relationships
  • Deliver proactive & preventative customer support activities
  • Working collaboratively with other teams (including Products, Client Services & Sales) to achieve a high degree of internal and external satisfaction

You should have the following skills and experience:
  • You must be an Australian Citizen for Security Clearance purposes
  • Candidates successful in this role will be at ease with providing outstanding technical support for applications in a remote technical environment 
  • Competent at communicating technical plans of action to customers or third parties and should be available to work all hours to ensure a mission critical system is returned to operation in the shortest possible timeframe
  • Able to demonstrate clear thinking under pressure and communication skills that will ensure client confidence is maintained
  • Charismatic team player that enjoys challenges to resolve complex technical issues in the simplest and most effective manner
  • Able to create and maintain a positive, high-energy environment that fosters mutual trust, respect and a commitment to the team itself
  • Willing to travel and participate in activities that fall outside the local business hours of their geographic location

Technical Capabilities:

  • Microsoft SQL Server and strong T-SQL (DBA certification is preferred)
  • Familiarity with defect tracking technologies is required; Fog Bugz is used (experience desirable)
  • Oracle DBA and My-SQL skills (desirable)
  • Remote Access Technologies (desirable - Citrix and/or N3 preferred)
  • Microsoft Active Directory skills (desirable for supporting Implementation teams)
  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM is used (experience desirable)
  • Business Objects reporting skills (desirable)
  • Visual Basic, ASP.net & C# diagnostic skills (desirable)
  • IIS Administration & Diagnosis (desirable)
  • An understanding of Adobe Flex  (desirable)

If your skills and experience match the above criteria, please apply via the link and contact James Perry on .

Start date
ASAP
Duration
Permanent
From
Generic Network
Published at
26.11.2011
Project ID:
273459
Contract type
Freelance
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