Description

Position: Production Support Analyst

Location: Howell NJ - Onsite / Hybrid

Duration: 12 Months

Experience wiht L1/L2 support with VBA macros, excel reports, complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and SSIS and SSAS cubes.

Responsibilities
 

  • Lead the Production Support Team in managing, triaging, and assisting with support tickets
  • Provide front line technical support to end users responding to issues related to Problem/Incident Management, Data platforms, Reports, and related job monitoring related to issues
  • Solve issues adhering to established SLA deadlines
  • Root cause and problem resolution follow-up
  • Debug and fix issues by analyzing VBA macros, excel reports, complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and SSIS and SSAS cubes.
  • As a part of L1 & L2 support team provide stand-by out of hours support on rotational basis
  • Experience in managing offshore Production Support teams and provide leadership in the Production Support topics
  • Look for efficiency improvement in & productivity savings Drive & live by the culture of innovation resulting in highly efficient team and improving operational efficiency
  • Work closely with Technology Engineering Teams, Development, Testing and L3 Support Teams in resolving Production Support issues/tickets.
  • Communicate with all lines of business and management the overall status and health of the Production Support, contribute to automation, causal analysis, develop shared/common solutions, proactively identify cross functional or technical issues
  • Interact with clients and demonstrate empathy to situations and challenges
  • This is a great opportunity for someone with good data analyst, data engineering and project management skills and can demonstrate flexibility
  • Strong data management acumen, communication and presentation skills

Required Skills

  • Bachelor's Degree or master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics.
  • 7 + years of relevant IT experience (SDLC- Waterfall / Agile, Production Support, Data Analyst)
  • Ability to write good SQL for data analysis must - experience in MS technologies such as MS SQL, SSIS, SSRS, VBA Excel and Excel Macros
  • Nice to have Azure experience.
  • Experience in Customer Support must
  • Experience with managing production support teams is a must have
  • Exposure to sensitive data management is a plus
  • Self learner and ability work independently is a must
  • Experience of handling various production support roles (technical - L1/L2) and hands-on experience in using at least 2-3 widely used monitoring / scheduling tools
  • Experience troubleshooting, analysis, research and resolution using advanced query, programming skills, conduct root cause analysis, and identify mitigations/risk
  • Experience with Real-time problem solving, triaging of issues impacting technical services (application/reports) to customers and partners in a timely manner while keeping everyone involved informed of significant progress or challenges while the issue/ticket is been worked on
  • Ability to assess initial severity, assign priority, gather impacts, and engage support teams, and escalate as necessary to ensure timely resolution of issues/tickets
  • Experience with on call support for triaging problems, coordinating with various support teams across the organization and carryout activities related to incident and problem management
  • Ability to suggest, implement ideas for enhancing the customer experience and implement best practices to optimize production support tasks/activities
  • Flexible to work for extended hours and on weekends as needed to handle high priority issues
  • Experience in managing Offshore Production support teams
  • Must be willing and able to express new ideas, concerns and opinions directly to wider team in team meetings face-to-face and via remote-working tools
  • Ability to deal with complex information, processes and relationships to derive a simple solution
  • Good ability to navigate ambiguity and quickly establish credibility
  • Excellent spoken and written English complete with clear oral communication skills
  • Experience in Change management and Incident management tools
     

Desired Skills
 

  • Previous experience on an IT Application support team that provided front line technical support to end users responding to issues related to Problem/Incident Management, Release/Deployment, Operational Readiness, Application Monitoring, Production Governance related to issues in the data management areas
  • Working experience in SDLC processes using Agile Methodologies
  • Exposure to Healthcare industry

Education

ANY GRADUATE