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United Arab Emirates Government (or related public sector entity)

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Senior Technician Application Operations Support

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Key Accountabilities

  • Team Management
    • Lead and manage a team of applications support analysts, providing guidance, mentorship, and performance evaluations.
    • Foster a collaborative and productive team environment, promoting professional development and knowledge sharing.
    • Guides technical implementation team on the approach and technical functions during the project deployment
    • Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior team members
  • Applications Solutions
    • Contributes to RFI and RFP for individual products and end-to-end solutions
    • Manage technical discussion meetings to gather the required information for the Technical Design Specification creation and to make sure that the client requirements are correctly addressed in the provided solution
    • Analyze, design, and implement software solutions of varying complexity, including server-side and middleware
  • Application Maintenance and Support
    • Ensure the availability, performance, and stability of our applications and software systems.
    • Oversee the resolution of application-related incidents, problems, and service requests, ensuring timely and effective responses.
    • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as development, infrastructure, and quality assurance, to address and resolve application issues.
    • Design and implement effective solutions and models to store and retrieve client data.
    • Install and organize information systems to guarantee data lake functionality
    • Manage vendors and extracts relevant information for knowledge transfer, conducts knowledge transfer sessions for deployment projects, technologies, and solutions
    • Diligently teaming with the infrastructure, network, database, application and business intelligence teams to guarantee high data quality and availability
  • Application Troubleshooting and Problem Solving
    • Investigate and analyze complex application issues, identifying root causes and implementing appropriate solutions.
    • Develop and maintain troubleshooting guides, knowledge bases, and standard operating procedures to enhance support efficiency.
    • Provide escalation support for critical application incidents and act as a point of contact for senior management.
    • Monitor the system performance by performing regular tests, troubleshooting, and integrating new features
    • Support existing software including development of enhancements, defect resolution, determining and resolving performance issues, debugging, upgrading, deployment and migration
  • Application Optimization and Enhancements
    • Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify opportunities for application improvements, performance enhancements, and feature enhancements.
    • Participate in the planning and implementation of application upgrades, patches, and migrations, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.
    • Oversee the migration of data from legacy systems to new solutions and recommend solutions to improve new and existing database systems
  • Relationship Management
    • Establish and maintain strong working relationships with internal users, business units, and external clients to understand their application support needs and expectations.
    • Serve as a liaison between the applications support team and other departments, facilitating effective communication and coordination.

Qualifications

  • BSc. / B.E / M.C.A
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

Experience

  • Proven experience in managing a team of application support analysts.
  • In-depth knowledge of application support best practices, ITIL framework, and incident management processes.

Skills

  • Strong technical proficiency in troubleshooting, maintaining, and supporting enterprise applications and software systems.
  • Experience with Bigdata, Data Analytics, databases, SQL, scripting languages, and application monitoring tools.

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