Support Specialist Job Description
Support Specialist Duties & Responsibilities
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Support Specialist Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Support Specialist
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ITIL, CPR, MCSA, MCITP, MCP, HDI, CCNA, MCSE, MOS, PKI
Education for Support Specialist
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the support specialist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Associate and Bachelor's Degree in Technical, Education, Information Technology, Graduate, Information Systems, Computer Science, Associates, Business, Management, Business/Administration
Skills for Support Specialist
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Support Specialist Examples
Support Specialist Job Description
- Carry out preventative maintenance checks on client location or managed devices
- Record activity as required by site standards, potentially including parts inventory
- Carry out first level repair activity, gaining advice when required
- Wear the required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), which is provided
- Other duties as they may arise appropriate to the role
- Gaining detailed knowledge of all business flows, the application architecture and the hardware configuration for supported applications
- Building and maintaining effective and productive relationships, with the stakeholders in Business, Development, Infrastructure and third party systems/data providers and vendors
- Ensuring the timely delivery of key data feeds within SLA’s and consistently achieving maximum availability (up time) for critical functionality
- Facilitating and coordinating across streams and the wider teams during incidents, key market and holiday events
- Assisting in the process to approve all new releases and production configuration changes, ensuring the development includes all necessary documentation for each change and conducting post-release testing where required
- Regularly reviewing and analysing the service requests and issues that are raised, while seeking to improve the process and remove reoccurring tasks where possible
- A strong background working within a financial institution, providing information technology support and dealing with business users to support the or gather requirements
- An understanding of where to use processes and how to build and operate a network within a large organisation
- Worked across countries, regions and time zones with a broad range of cultures and technical capability
- A broad knowledge of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), within a best practice service context within a real time distributed environment
- A strong team player who is able to work in a global organisation
Support Specialist Job Description
- In possession of additional financial industry related qualifications (beneficial)
- Manage and maintain all pre-qualification files, including follow-up with potential borrowers
- Imaging set up and maintenance for in-progress loan files
- Meet borrowers to copy documentation, as needed
- Review documentation for completeness
- Upload executed documents to imaging for returned packages
- Submit complete loan files for pre-processing audit
- Submit initial third party verification requests to Junior Processor
- When required, submit for corporate condo approval
- Become a product expert
- No previous experience in the Mortgage industry is required, but preferred
- Requires (2) two years of administrative and customer service experience
- Preferred prior experience in the mortgage lending industry
- Preferred Knowledge, Abilities, Licenses, Certificates, or Registrations
- Preferred prior experience using mortgage software
- Get Promoted and start building your career
Support Specialist Job Description
- Oversee all support channels, including email support, phone support, and secondary channels
- Solve technical questions and issues independently
- Communicate customer feedback to account managers and sales team members
- Contribute to product backlog by sharing issues, bugs, and feature requests
- Share new product improvements directly with customers
- Improve support process and overall customer experience
- Provide daily administration of core banking applications
- Proactively support capacity planning and disaster recovery aspects
- Understand supported businesses and communicate in common terms
- Work with Client Services, Project Management to identify and specify complex business requirements and processes
- Minimum High School Diploma is required
- Based in New York City
- Cool-headed, composed, able to weather a storm
- You treat customers with the patience, empathy, and respect of a partner
- Fast learner, self-motivated, detail-oriented
- Knack for helping different people, solving problems, and delivering a valuable customer experience
Support Specialist Job Description
- Operates computer terminal or personal computer to obtain information
- Handles almost any complaint or problem
- Serves as a contact for customers
- Records any issue that affects the customer and drives top quartile customer satisfaction performance
- Follow-ups on any delays in inquiry answers and keeps the status up to date in system applications
- May remains available 24 hours per day for customers in order to address any problems that may develop after work hours or during the weekend
- Keep abreast of changes in Windows platform environment, be familiar with CM 12, GPO, browser settings, and new tools deployed to enhance the user experience
- Partner with Help Desk, Field Services, and other support teams to share knowledge
- Support resolution of issues with application packaging and delivery
- Partner with Field Services, LOB IT teams and other Tech Op teams to understand user needs/profiles to resolve desktop issues
- Clear Eyes, Full Heart
- At least 1 year of hardware support or at least 1 year of software support
- 3 year of experience in ITIL processes
- Use support applications like Aternity, SCCM, and others to look for trends and troubleshooting of customer issues
- Resolve customer incidents within SLA and reroute tickets as needed for complete resolution
- Keep abreast of upcoming changes (Virtualization, application deployments, patching and upgrades) and help test/pilot prior to delivery by the software distribution team
Support Specialist Job Description
- Attend weekly ISRM meetings to keep abreast of changes and co-own desktop issues with ISRM as appropriate to resolution
- Focus on preventing issues and away from reactive solutions
- Participate in Desktop projects, staff war rooms, and resolve issues
- Take ownership of orphan issues with desktop user community to complete resolution
- Support SCCM, GPO, Browser, Aternity and other teams with testing and deployment of new changes and new features
- Demonstrate an understanding and the ability to perform end-user and application administration
- Rebuild and installs new or re-deployed computer hardware or software
- Resolve daily demand support issues received via the helpdesk management tools
- Demonstrate the aptitude for using helpdesk management tools, and have the ability to manage helpdesk requests
- Recognize network client or connectivity issues and escalate to appropriate support personnel
- Familiarity using different CMSs (e.g., WordPress, Drupal)
- At least 2 years of experience in Office Support
- At least 2 years of experience in Windows Operating system
- At least 2 years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst
- Required 1+ year of experience in an IT Service Desk level 1 role (in a Windows network environment), maintaining and diagnosing client workstations, services, applications, and printers
- Intermediate Other Manage basic IT process documentation