Job Description
Job Purpose
- As the App Support Analyst, you will provide efficient and effective application support services to ensure the smooth functioning of the organization's technology infrastructure and user satisfaction.
- This involves troubleshooting and resolving technical issues, providing timely responses to user inquiries, collaborating with cross-functional teams, implementing upgrades and enhancements, and ensuring system availability and stability.
- The goal is to minimize downtime and maximize productivity, while maintaining the highest levels of customer service and user experience.
Job Responsibilities
- Ensure the uptime and continuous maintenance of all priority technology applications.
- Managing the company's ticketing system in ensuring all tickets raised are attended to as fast as possible in compliance with our defined SLA.
- Provision of support to all stakeholders and end-users at Sabi business locations
- Troubleshooting issues escalated on the service desk.
- Developing and enforcing request handling and escalation policies and procedures.
- Participate and support in all deployments, ensuring they are successfully carried out and tested.
- Participating and supporting all UAT in line with business requirements.
- Creation of roles and access to stakeholders on applications managed by the team.
- Identifying, recommending, developing, and implementing end-user training programs to increase computer literacy and self-sufficiency.
- Liaise with vendors for the procurement of new systems technologies; oversee installation and resolve adaptation issues.
- Track and analyze trends in Help Desk requests and generate statistical reports.
- Monitor incident trends and anticipate potential problems for proactive resolution.
- Conduct research on emerging products, services, protocols and standards in support of service desk technology procurement and development efforts.
- Ensure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are established, and resolution are within timeframes.
Requirements
Special Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s, HND, OND degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer engineering, Software engineering or a related field
- 3-4 years’ experience as an Application Support personnel in a related field.
- Strong analytical, logical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Proven experience and strengths in problem resolution, customer service/management, and support.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Thorough understanding of business and technology process
- Certifications and training in relevant areas (COBIT, ITIL, PMP, TOGAF, Agile Scrum, Jenkins, GitHub, Netlify etc.).
- High-level understanding of the technology landscape (cloud on-prem and tools like Office-suite, Azure solutions).
- Familiarity with programming languages, such as C++, Javascript, Python, and Ruby, etc.
Candidate Specification
- Motivated by the mission of Sabi
- Pragmatic with quantitative and analytical ability and attention to detail
- Driven, independent thinker and leader who can juggle multiple projects simultaneously with fast-changing priorities
- High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency.
- A focus on execution. Willing and able to get hands dirty.
- Flexibility to roll up your sleeves and attack problems and projects as they arise, where you will need to set out a clear structure, method and outcomes yourself .
Benefits
- Rapid Career Growth
- Annual Training Budget
- Robust Health Coverage, including
- Optical Cover, and
- Dental Cover
- Wellness Programs, including
- Free Gym Cover
- Free Spa Cover
- Competitive Pension Plan
- Opportunity to work in other global office.
- Life Cover
- Performance Bonus
- Paid Vacation Days
- Fully-funded Team Bonding Activities