East Greenbush, New York - Posted on: Wednesday 04/10/13
Description
General Job Duties
- Under guidance, participate as part of project team to provide technical support, resolve issues and plan for assigned IT functions.
- Provide customer facing support service to internal colleagues
- Continuously expand knowledge in one of the 6 career paths and apply it to software development, software quality assurance, program management, system engineering & architecture and understanding and developing business solutions.
- Identify and recommend opportunities to improve and enhance communication services to internal and external customers.
- Continuously strive to improve, support and identify opportunities to increase efficiency and expand services.
- Perform other duties as required.
Specific Job Duties:
- Oversee daily Application Support activities such as minor web site changes, publishing of data to the web site, and assisting users with internal custom software.
- Identify defects in internal software and work with the software development staff to correct these defects.
- Provide timely updates and feedback to the end users and IT management on assigned tickets.
- Provide outstanding customer service based on client satisfaction and successful problem resolution.
- Work with software developers to make changes to software, scripts, html, and databases.
- Track problems with internal processes and software, identify problem patterns, and work with the development team to improve the software.
- Create and improve process, system, and software documentation.
Qualifications
Education/Experience Requirements
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, related field or equivalent experience.
- General understanding of commonly used IT technologies including PC support, Networking, Applications, Programming Languages, Databases, Server Technologies, etc. is required.
- Database programming in SQL required.
- Experience with a major modern computer language / platform preferred. Examples are: Java, C#, ColdFusion (or other development platforms).
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Must be able to work effectively as part of a project team, foster team cooperation.
- General understanding of the project management process.
- Customer service orientation.
- Willingness to learn new languages/platforms as needed.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Stays current with rapidly changing technology and applies it to business needs.
- Must be able to effectively communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical personnel.
- Working towards professional certification as warranted.
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Interested candidates please send resume and cover letter to: angela.hansen@ihs.com
