Experienced Technical Support Engineer with German

Job ID 5108

Why Ness

We know that people are our greatest asset. Our staff’s professionalism, innovation, teamwork, and dedication to excellence have helped us become one of the world’s leading technology companies. It is these qualities that are vital to our continued success. As a Ness employee, you will be working on products and platforms for some of the most innovative software companies in the world.

You’ll gain knowledge working alongside other highly skilled professionals that will help accelerate your career progression.

You’ll also benefit from an array of advantages like access to trainings and certifications, bonuses, and aids, socializing activities and attractive compensation.

Requirements and responsibilities

What you’ll do

The Experienced Technical Support Engineer is a frontline support engineer and provides advanced technical assistance to other TSEs, helping them to quickly and effectively resolve their customer issues. You will speak with customers as well, helping resolve the toughest issues. Our solutions utilize complex technologies and the associated issues require technical knowledge and excellent problem-solving skills to resolve. You are an expert in these technologies and products.

You exemplify providing professional business-to-business customer service, with awareness of the critical nature of these solutions to our customers who are using them.. You ensure that any reported problems as well as anticipated issues in your area of expertise are resolved in an efficient and effective manner. These interactions must leave customers feeling impressed with how smoothly concerns are addressed when they encounter problems with our software.

You will train and mentor other TSEs; their success will reflect your influence. You identify broader issues in your specialty and develop and execute plans to correct them. This may include systemic and chronic issues, process inadequacies, software design and usability problems, training needs and any other item that reduces success of co-workers and customers. You will model excellence in all facets of your work and help other TSEs to be successful by mentoring and coaching.

You will be an advisor to company leadership in creatively moving us to higher levels of achievement and success. You will handle the most critical escalations, provide backup for leadership and actively share insight and feedback on technical and operational issues.​

How will you make an impact

• Exemplify deep subject matter expertise in our core technologies, as well as at least one other technology specialty. Demonstrate solid expertise in other areas of specialty;
• Provide expert technical assistance and issue resolution advice to internal co-workers and customers via phone, online, chat, and email. You will help co-workers resolve the most difficult cases;
• Exemplify professional, assertive, articulate, and friendly verbal and written communication in all aspects of your work. Take full ownership of all communication needs related to the management of troubleshooting efforts internally and externally, building confidence among all customers and stakeholders that we are progressing properly towards resolution;
• Coach colleagues to improve their communication skills. Actively listen, ask relevant questions and challenge customers appropriately. Validate and clarify customer provided information to ensure the information is captured correctly and documented clearly, properly, and complete enough to serve as a reference during future troubleshooting efforts;
• Encourage productive debate and discussion with colleagues to more thoroughly analyze and resolve problems;
• Be influential in improving procedures and processes that improve our efficiency and effectiveness;
• Provide timely, articulate, effective and substantive updates via our incident management system, ensuring that all details of case work are captured into case notes for each incident. Ensure that these details are given to the customer in regular cadence throughout the resolution process. When assisting co-workers with issue resolution, place detailed notes in the case about the information and assistance given;
• Lead collaboration activities within the technical support team as well as those involving other organizations, ensuring that engagement is in line with the severity of the issue and that resolution is achieved within the SLA;
• Reach agreement with the customer on the severity and priority of each issue, ensuring that it is properly set in the case throughout the resolution process. Re-evaluate severity/priority when cases become escalated;
• Proactively ensure that each case in your area of expertise is progressing according to the response and resolution targets as specified in our Service Level Agreements (SLA) by assisting colleagues in accelerating their cases toward timely resolution;
• Provide root cause correction, not just symptom relief. Ensure that all facets of the problem are evaluated to eliminate recurrence of the issue. Exemplify tenacity in resolving core issues that fully resolve problems, and assist peers in doing the same;
• Proactively pull cases from the queue based upon your skills and abilities, and work cases that are increasingly challenging to develop and sharpen your skills. Help co-workers improve their skills by helping them work through and successfully resolve more difficult cases;
• Effectively listen to all customer communications, identifying and logging all issues that are expressed. Ensure that all issues are resolved, including those that are regarding process, general concerns, chronic or systemic in nature;
• Open and monitor incidents created with 3rd party providers. Work with other internal stakeholders to improve our interactions and success in handling these incidents;
• Obtain and maintain certification as a Knowledge Centered Service (KCS) Publisher, create useful knowledge content, and update existing knowledgebase articles using KCS methodology. Provide coaching to others on KCS best practices. Ensure that troubleshooting guides, best practices, and other documentation for your area of specialty is complete and up to date;
• Help other TSEs identify, document, and report issues with software, design, reliability, and maintenance issues to the proper teams, ensuring that they are aware of and are addressing customer expectations. Ensure that issues reported to R&D as bugs are accurate and complete, and work with others to reduce errors and improve effectiveness in the bug reporting process. Work with R&D, Product Management and other organizations to ensure that our products are easy to use and support;
• Maintain consistent and exemplary performance on all behaviors and key performance indicators, modeling high-level achievement for all TSEs across the team;
• Avoid escalation on the most challenging issues through proper communication and by engaging proper resources before the customer becomes frustrated and asks for escalation. Properly de-escalate customers through expert communication and resource engagement, ensuring that all customers that you influence are receiving excellent service. Improve escalation handling and processes across the company;
• Deep knowledge of analytics tools and advanced expertise in pulling and effectively analyzing application and server logs, traces, packet captures, etc. to determine root cause of issues;
• Exemplify advanced understanding of networking technologies and how they are utilized by our products, platform and customers. Expert at reading and analyzing network and other technical diagrams to aid in problem diagnosis and resolution, and often provide mentoring to colleagues to improve their technical abilities;
• Provide training to colleagues in real time as you perform your work and assist them in being successful in their roles. Develop training materials, best practice documentation, and other resources that will help others, including customers, to be more successful with our products;
• Maintain broad and specific industry knowledge and continually sharpen understanding of contact center and technology business practices;
• While a consistent work schedule is the norm, the ability to work a flexible schedule and provide on-call services may be required. Critical escalations may come at any time, so occasional after hours and weekend work may be required;

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Business Information Systems, Networking or similar field, or equivalent work experience required;
• 5+ years’ work experience in a technical customer service role, preferably in a technical support capacity;
• Minimum of three years of experience working with and advanced knowledge of technologies such as SaaS, telecommunications, contact center software, networking technologies such as TCP/IP, HTTP, SFTP, scripting, load balancers, proxies, firewalls and Relational Databases (MSSQL, Oracle, MySQL);
• Excellent technical, analytical and problem-solving skills for diverse and complex issues in high-pressure, complex, SaaS multi-platform/system/vendor environments;
• Excellent professional, written and verbal communications skills with the ability to capture all details in written form during conversations;
• Communication is assertive, articulate, and friendly while building confidence across all stakeholders you work with";
• Time management skills that allow you to work in a highly influential manner in an interrupt-driven environment;
• Ability to multi-task and maintain professional composure during stressful situations, prioritizing your activities appropriately";
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills while managing diverse and complex issues in high-pressure, complex, multi-platform/system/vendor environments;
• Proven ability to utilize, create and update knowledgebase resources in the course of your work;
• Proven ability to drive escalated customer problems to resolution utilizing appropriate internal and external resources;
• Ability to communicate effectively across all company teams such as Product Management, Research and Development, Quality Assurance,
  Professional Services, and Executive/Senior Management teams to resolve technical issues;
• Industry experience including understanding of the contact center business, as well as general market and business trends;
• Understanding of networking technologies and telecommunications architecture (PBX, Carriers, VoIP);
• Demonstrated ability to work independently as part of a larger team;
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, agile environment with assertiveness, critical thinking, and strong problem-solving skills;
• Ability to adapt quickly to change, think on your feet, communicate positively and work proactively.

Not checking every single requirement?

If this role sounds good to you, even if you don’t meet every single bullet point in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. For most of the candidates that applied, we found a role that was a very good fit with their skills.

Let’s meet and you may just be the right candidate for one of our roles.

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