Pega Support Engineer
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Job description
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Lead Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 support coordination for an enterprise SaaS application supporting VA business users.
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Manage incident intake, triage, classification, prioritization, routing, escalation, resolution tracking, and closure activities.
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Coordinate with VA service desk resources and enterprise ITSM tools to ensure incidents and service requests are properly documented and tracked.
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Provide user support for system access, role-based functionality, workflow issues, reporting questions, data-related issues, configuration questions, and operational support needs.
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Escalate complex technical issues to Pega engineers, platform administrators, data/integration resources, release managers, or Government decision-makers as appropriate.
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Monitor incidents and service requests against service expectations, response timelines, and operational priorities.
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Develop and maintain knowledge-base articles, known issue records, troubleshooting guides, FAQs, escalation procedures, and support documentation.
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Support hypercare following releases, onboarding events, user expansion, or major configuration changes.
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Analyze incident trends, recurring issues, root causes, user pain points, and support metrics to recommend improvements.
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Prepare incident summaries, root cause analysis inputs, after-action reports, support metrics, and recurring issue analyses.
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Participate in release readiness, change control, defect triage, training feedback, and operational performance review activities.
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Coordinate with training and communications resources to identify user education needs based on support patterns.
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Promote responsive, professional, and customer-focused support across the user community.
Requirements
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4+ years of progressive experience in application support, help desk coordination, incident management, technical support, production support, or IT service management.
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Experience supporting Tier 1, Tier 2, and/or Tier 3 issue intake, triage, escalation, resolution tracking, and user communications.
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Practical understanding of incident management, service request management, knowledge management, root cause analysis, escalation procedures, and support metrics.
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Experience supporting enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, workflow systems, case management systems, or business applications.
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Familiarity with ITSM tools such as ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, Remedy, or similar platforms.
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Ability to troubleshoot user issues involving access, roles, workflows, data, reports, application behavior, and configuration questions.
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Ability to coordinate across technical teams, business stakeholders, platform administrators, developers, testers, and Government customers.
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Strong written and verbal communication skills with a customer-service orientation.
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Ability to document known issues, resolutions, FAQs, troubleshooting procedures, and support metrics clearly.
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Ability to work effectively in a remote support environment and manage multiple active issues.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS DESIRED:
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Exposure to Federal, state, health, financial, or other regulated support environments is beneficial; Department of Veterans Affairs experience is a plus but not required.
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Familiarity with enterprise application support, SaaS support, workflow systems, case management platforms, or production operations is valued.
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Experience with ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, Remedy, or other ITSM/ticketing tools is a plus.
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Working knowledge of incident management, problem management, escalation procedures, knowledge management, root cause analysis, or support metrics is beneficial.
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Relevant ITIL, HDI, ServiceNow, Pega, help desk, application support, or IT service management certifications are preferred, but not required.
EDUCATION:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
CLEARANCE:
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.