Sr Support Engineer

Sr Support Engineer

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At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

Summary

Provide technical leadership to a team to drive application performance and availability to meet business needs, including on-call support, firefighting, monitoring, application checkouts, and deep engagement with all high priority incidents and problems - 24/7

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Own and drive Customer engagement workflow and resolutions for escalated incidents, service requests, and problems.
• Champion for technology needs of business users, promote effective presence in business areas, proactive monitoring for issues impacting users, and drive cross-team engagement for long term resolution of issues
• Create effortless customer experience via partnering to create an effective use of Self Service, Community and Knowledge Management for users, Tier1, and our teams.
• Stay current and promote enterprise standards, customer success and industry standards, technologies, methodologies and best practices
• Build and maintain relationships across Development, Infrastructure, Product and other Support stakeholders to deliver and improve the team's effectiveness and efficiency.
• Coach and mentor employees to deliver continuous improvement, and develop their professional skills and capabilities

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS or related field OR a significant amount of directly-related work experience
• 4-5 years of professional experience required
• At least 4 years of professional operations, software engineering, debugging, analysis, and software documentation experience
• Experience using a variety of continuous integration and deployment tools and concepts
• 3+ years of experience with specific technical requirements/platforms will vary based on role (i.e. Front End, Back End, Cloud, .net, Java, Full stack)
• Experience executing projects and efforts in variety of specific and broad SDLC methods (ie Kanban, SCRUM, waterfall, agile, etc)
• Demonstrated understanding of application support and customer service industry standards, methodologies, best practices, and tools
• Advanced programming skills
• Ability to explain technical solutions to technical and non-technical teams
• Possess a support and customer-centric mindset and attitude, along with a passion for learning and building on core business knowledge and technical base.
• Problem-solving skills, ability to deal with ambiguity, sense of ownership and the ability to work with a limited set of requirements
• Familiarity of Northwestern Mutual products, servicing, applications, systems and infrastructure.
• Experience in customer support role (tech or non-tech) / helping resolve people's issues.
• Experience with DevOps processes and methodologies
• Experience with Agile methodologies

Our Benefits!

• Highly competitive compensation, including annual bonus opportunities
• Medical/Dental/Vision plans, 401(k), pension program
• Tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off
• Extensive Professional Training Opportunities
• Excellent Work/Life Balance

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