Title Application Operations Engineer

Job Number 3044843

City Miami

Career Level Experienced

Relocation Assistance No

Business GE Digital

Business Segment Digital Technology

Function Digital Technology

Country/Territory United States

U.S. State, China or Canada Provinces Florida

Postal Code 33133

Role Summary/Purpose Skype for business will become an integral part of how GE businesses communicate to each other in relationship to instant messaging, voice, and video. As part of Digital Workplace Solutions within CoreTech the role will deliver L2 support on Skype for Business with global collaboration between L1/L3, service owners, and operations. The role will work hand in hand with operations to identify & resolve issues directly with end users and the vendor.

Essential Responsibilities In this role, you will work hand in hand with operations to identify & resolve issues directly with end users and the vendor. Based on resolution of issues this role will provide quality knowledge to the service desks on troubleshooting and/or self-help knowledge/automation.

The candidate will have to:

• Partner with collaboration service owners on new service introductions, change, and transition to operations
• Proactively plan for upcoming changes
• Assist and own the preparation of end user support documentation and knowledge
• Inform and train all support teams on new/changed processes/services and drive operational process rigor
• Communicate critical service issues through several channels to notify all levels of support globally
• Manage and lead the enhanced service collaboration vendor & other in-house support tech team
• Ensure SLAs and ensure availability requirements are met or exceeded
• Ensure support team readiness and availability
• Effectively manage escalations to resolution
• Create and utilize dashboard metrics to communicate the services' performance and financials to stakeholders
• Drive a higher level of customer satisfaction by improving support team quality, knowledge, and training
• Support quality initiatives for continuous service improvement & optimization
• Partner with vendors and L1/L2/L3 teams to deliver quality services
• Lead efforts to improve and simplify End-User experience by reducing the volume of tickets, reducing touch points, improve accountability, and driving the usage of the self-service tools and other programs such as ft leftthin the Collaboration space
• Manage and drive relationship with suppliers reviewing innovative ideas and improving resolution, by reducing the need to escalate to vendors
• Collaborate on planning, initiation, and management of key Service Management-oriented projects for Global Client Services
• Investigate the possibilities of automation for self-service of end user support
• Partner with product teams to plan and test automation solutions
• Maintain current support and service levels for Cisco products such as Jabber/Webex/Collaboration Meeting room until transitioned to be fully Skype for Business

Qualifications/Requirements Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or HS Diploma/GED with 1+ Years of IT experience or equivalent military experience/training 3+ Years' Vendor & Supplier Management
• 1+ Years' experience in IT service delivery
• 1+ Years' Vendor & Supplier Management
• 1+ Years' experience working with Skype for Business/Lync in coordination with Microsoft O365 and other versions of Microsoft
• 1+ Years understanding of Microsoft network environment (on-premise, online, hybrid, express route)
• 1+ Years' experience working with Network, Telepresence/Video Bridging, Voice and Video, VOIP, Instant Message/Presence technologies globally
• 1+ Years' managing IT Projects in a global matrixed organization

Eligibility Requirements:

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.
• Must work out of a GE office.

Desired Characteristics

• Master's Degree preferred
• Experience in a team operational leadership role
• Excellent analytical problem solving and interpersonal skills
• Customer service oriented
• Spanish & French Language skills are a plus
• Excellent communication skills and customer empathy
• Experience working in a global atmosphere
• Knowledge and experience with Service Now
• Ability to work both autonomously and in constant collaboration with product owners, operations, and end users
• Knowledge and experience with working for Skype for Business/Lync in coordination with the MSFT O365 and other versions of Microsoft
• Project Management (PMP) certification a plus
• Demonstrated ability to drive results in a dynamic, and fast pace environment
• Drives change initiatives & strategies
• Experience with Powershell software a plus, but not required

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Additional Eligibility Qualifications GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.