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Technical Support Lead
Allstate
Irving, TX, United States
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Job Description
The Team Connect Support Lead is the primary point of contact providing technical leadership, management, and direction for all Team Connect issues and problems. The lead is a Systems Analyst Consultant (SA) working closely with the program lead; understanding and supporting the strategic direction, prioritizing technical and usability issues, and driving timely resolution with the Mitratech vendor. The SA provides technical oversight and leadership for system changes, maintenance, patches, upgrades and all releases. The SA lead will leverage technical knowledge as well as business process and system knowledge, working in partnership across ATSV (technology units), Law & Regulation, and Mitratech.
The Team Connect Support Lead provides technical solution design and technical input into architectural assessments; assists in enforcing architectural adherence and collaborating with technology and business partners. The SA may also be required to create high-level technical requirement and designs for optimal IT solutions.
Responsibilities
• Support lead contact for Incident, problem management and change management.
• Provide technical guidance / input and coordination of support activities.
• Production support lead contact including escalation of issues to the vendors and/or internal partners
• Act as a point-of-contact and engage in Enterprise Command Center (ECC) calls when an application outage occurs and responsible for communication and vendor engagement
• Manage and participates in on-call support
• Coordinates and manage change and release management activities such as creation of change orders
• Accountable for managing tickets, issues and vendor support cases by facilitating review meeting, triaging the issues and help troubleshooting and getting a resolution to the issues.
• Identifies systems and technical constraints, potential technology risks, issues and resolution, and document possible mitigation strategies for high complexity projects
• Coordinates various technology organization groups around required operations, environment, and desktop documentation. Manages development of the documentation
• Identifies opportunities to improve internal team processes or supported business's processes, products, or services
• Manages design reviews, application design impacts between concurrent releases, and technical walkthroughs
• Understands the technical details, integration, and functions of multiple applications, hardware, and/or software within a team. Executes and enforces best practices.
• Creates the high-level technical designs for moderate complexity projects and difficult maintenance efforts by analyzing and tracing designs to requirements (business, functional, and nonfunctional) and systems architecture; creates design documents and maintain design artifacts
• Assist in configuration and development
• Monitors the technical progress of the project
• Assists with detailed project estimating and milestone planning. Reviews and validates accuracy of others’ estimates. Track the critical path across project teams and communicate the technical progress of the project
• Understands and can articulate how team work processes provide a line of sight to the customer
• Develop and/or confirm detailed estimates for high complexity projects; monitors, documents and communicates the technical progress of the project
Qualifications
• 3-5 years of IT experience
• Experience working in Java and web development environment is a plus
• Experience in Matter/Case Management is a plus
• Experience in Release and Changes Management
• Experience facilitating meetings for associates of various levels of the organization
• Ability to navigate across multiple application and technical services teams, business partners and vendors
• Detailed oriented individual with a willingness and ability to learn new concepts and work in a fast-paced environment
• Has a mastery level of understanding of multiple areas of business knowledge to successfully meet work objectives.
• Demonstrates the ability to grasp and apply advanced analysis concepts to solving problems
• Demonstrates the ability to resolve difficult problems and implement solutions that may go beyond the scope of initial client or user complaint.
• Possesses the ability to openly support and embrace change, approach change in a factual manner.
• Proficient in solution design, configuration, creating requirement documentation and process diagrams
• Experience in Waterfall and Agile project management methodology
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent people skills
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
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