Sr Application Operations Engineer

Job Description Summary

Responsible for supporting and maintaining multiple user and customer-facing applications and related data processing platforms and services.
Ensures the user-facing business applications are consistently available and are highly performant meeting customer needs.

Job Description

Role and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:

• Execute day to day application maintenance, processing and user support
• Responsible for responding/delegating support cases from application customers
• Troubleshoot application alerts from monitoring tools and follow SOPs to resolve or escalate appropriately
• Drive customer communication during critical events and lead retrospective meetings
• Drive a higher level of customer satisfaction by improving support team quality, knowledge, and training
• Drive root cause investigation implementing any learnings or improvement opportunities
• Drive projects that improve customer experience, application process or performance with minimal guidance
• Assist & own the preparation of end user support documentation and knowledge
• Proactively plan for upcoming changes
• Provide mentorship and guidance to team members
• Inform and train all support teams on new/changed processes/services and drive operational process rigor
• Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders
• Ensure support team readiness and availability
• Investigate the possibilities of automation for self-service of end user support
• Manage and lead the enhanced service collaboration vendor & other in-house support tech team
• Partner with product service owners on new service introductions, change, and transition to operations
• Manage and drive relationship with suppliers reviewing innovative ideas and improving resolution, by reducing the need to escalate to vendors

Required Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with 4 plus years' experience in digital operations

NOTE: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience.

Desired Qualifications

Technical Expertise:

• Experience with the machine connectivity, Overall Operations Effectiveness (OOE), LEAN tools & Operations and/or data visualization
• Understand concepts of setting and driving technical direction
• Familiar with elements of gathering functional requirements
• Understand technical standards & concepts to apply to project work
• Interest in current and emerging technologies demonstrated through training, job experience and/or industry activities

Business Acumen:

• Understand key cross-functional concepts that impact the organization; is aware of business priorities and organizational dynamics

Leadership:

• Coach and mentor team members.
• Familiar with concepts of costing hardware and software components. Works to assure work is on-time and within budget
• Deliver tasks on-time with alignment to architectural goals. Can identify and raise issues, risks and benefits
• Participate in change initiatives by implementing new directions and providing appropriate information and feedback

Personal Attributes:

• High level of energy and enthusiasm with the ability to thrive in a rapidly changing environment
• Customer focus - evaluates decisions through the eyes of the customer; builds strong customer relationships; creates processes with customer viewpoint; partners with customers
• Change oriented -actively generates process improvements; champions and drives change initiatives; confronts
• Ability to work with global teams, act independently and as part of a team
• Apply values, policies, procedures and precedent to make timely, routine decisions of limited, clear choice
• Open-mindedly to new perspectives or ideas. Consider different or unusual solutions when appropriate
• Resolve day-to-day issues related to strategy implementation. Escalate issues that impact the client and/or strategic initiatives
• Analytical and problem solving skills - communicates in a clear and succinct manner and effectively evaluates information/data to make decisions; anticipates obstacles and develops plans to resolve

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

Additional Information

GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: No