Application Support Analyst

Reporting to the IT Service Delivery Manager, the Application Support Analyst has primary responsibility for providing day to day operational support for the Company Application Portfolio, through the effective use and management of incident, requests and problems.

You will be responsible for the regular monitoring and maintenance of the application portfolio.

You will be responsible for the change management process for the Company, ensuring that the all changes are managed in accordance with the appropriate policies and that they have an appropriate roll-back plan and are scheduled in conjunction with the SSC and 3 party suppliers as appropriate.

In addition you will provide appropriate SharePoint expertise, in terms of support, content management and development of sites, services and functionality.

Responsibilities

• Provide 2 and 3 line support for the Company application portfolio
• Monitor application systems, identifying performance trends and taking action when necessary to stop problems arising
• Liaise with 3 party suppliers, ensuring issues are escalated and dealt with as necessary and to SLA
• Manage all system access requests
• Own application/system documentation and the data repository that holds that information (i.e. SharePoint)
• Provide technical support to the application architect and project services as required for project deliverables
• Ensure that pro-formas are completed and submitted and track delivery
• Provide test support for new and enhanced systems/applications
• Responsible for Change Management process, ensuring that changes are managed, roll-back plans are in place and that they are appropriately scheduled and approved, liasing with SSC Change Manager
• Owns Configuration Management process
• Responsible for scheduled maintenance and capacity planning
• Ensure that security, compliance and legislation is considered in all aspects of the role and associated processes
• Responsible for the development and maintenance of the Corp data warehouse
• Run reports and conduct analysis in-line with Business/Management requirements
• Responsible for the provision of performance information, ensuring timely, accurate reports are provided to the necessary parties
• Work with the Application Architect and Project Services to ensure that data/information analysis and reporting is considered in the development of new and enhanced systems design to ensure consideration is given to the linking, matching and cleansing of data across systems.

• Proven experience working in 1 and 2 line support role
• Experience of working with ITIL processes within an organisation, in particular, incident, request, change and problem Management
• Experience working in a customer facing technical role
• Proven experience working with and managing 3 party suppliers
• Experience managing assets, both hardware and software
• Knowledge and understanding of the Company application portfolio

Personal Attributes

• Excellent team working and interpersonal communication skills
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills
• Good team player and collaborative
• Ability to work on own initiative and with minimal supervision
• Technical background in application support and maintenance
• Ability to manage competing priorities
• Excellent attention to detail
• Analytical, with excellent problem-solving skills
• Ability to put the Customer at the heart of everything they do