L3 Application Support - Hybrid

Qualifications
a. Education
● Bachelor’s or College degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology and/or related field. Other degrees are welcome as long as he or she has extensive related experience.

b. Experience
● Has at least (3) years of experience in computer programming, analysis and troubleshooting application
● Has at least one (1) year of experience in Level 2 Application Support, Incident Management, Problem and Change Management
● Experience in business domain processes is preferred but not required

Job Description
II. KEY RESULTS AREAS/JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: (Describes the results for which the position has an on-going accountability. Accountabilities are statements of the important end results, which the job needs to achieve to justify its existence. Each accountability statement should relate to a single end result which must be accomplished and to which some measurement of performance can be applied.)

1. Incident Management
a. Receives incidents from the L2 Application Support for resolution and support and works continuously with them to gain information beneficial to the resolution of the incident.
b. Performs deep analysis and investigation of the incident received from the L2 Application Support.
c. Diagnose faults and determine whether new incidents are related to known errors or existing incident records.
d. Consults and works with his or her Immediate Superior regarding the incident as well as the business domain processes.
e. In case of P1 incidents and being the final level of application support, L3 application support is expected to diagnose and to identify root cause and provide a workaround or solution to the incident as quickly as possible.
f. If a P1 incident occurs after working hours then he or she would have to be available to resolve the issue on priority.
g. Directly communicates with end customers for additional information of the incident.
h. Contributes to the knowledge base essential for continuous process improvement of Application Support.

2. Problem Management
a. Identifies, reports and submits details of potential problems to Problem Manager for his or her review.
b. Reviews, analyzes, and investigates the problem in order to identify its root cause and provide corrective action/permanent solution or preventive action.
c. Consults and works with his or her Immediate Superior regarding the problem.
d. Creates and documents root cause analysis details, workaround, and corrective/preventive actions.
e. Implements corrective/preventive actions to the problem
f. Verifies if the action has addressed the root cause. Additionally, ensures that the implemented action does not result in another incident.
g. Provides an update to the Problem Manager and Immediate Superior regarding the outcome of the implementation.

3. Change Management
a. Identifies the incident or problem if it requires a change request to resolve the issue.
b. Understands and analyzes business processes and provides inputs to further enhance or improve and to clarify the change request requirements.
c. Evaluates change requests to determine feasibility, time required, compatibility and dependencies with current system(s).
d. Consults with Immediate Superior or directly communicates with end users to clarify change request requirements
e. Must ensure that best practice is followed and must always be applied on all projects.
f. Converts change request requirements into sequence of detailed instructions and logical steps for coding into language that will be processed by computer, applying knowledge of computer programming techniques and languages.
g. Codes computer programs following standard coding procedures defined and performs unit testing.

4. Customer Service
a. Manages customer relationships and maintains high quality service ensuring customer satisfaction.
b. Assists users to resolve major and complex problems in running computer programs.
c. Assists in the knowledge transfer during project turn-over.
d. Proactively provides updates to the customer on the progress of the initiative.

5. Administrative
a. Understands and complies with CMMI standards of the organization.
b. Maintains and updates daily monitoring of service deliverables;
c. Prepares and submits of needed reports;
d. Can conduct technical assessment of applicants;

6. Teamwork
a. Consults with his or her Immediate Lead for direction, guidance, work and performance details, career development and also raises issues, concerns and suggestions for his or her own betterment as well as for team and organization.
b. Ensure continuity of providing service by flexibly adjusting to help other team members.
c. Assists in the knowledge transfer during project turn-over.

7. Learning and Development
a. Expand knowledge on business process and IT related information
b. Stay abreast of current technology, systems information, problems, changes and updates relevant to the team;
c. Extends help or conducts training to Application Support members as well as Analyst Programmers in giving technical expertise or know how
8. Performance of other tasks as may be assigned