GIS Support Specialist

POSITION SUMMARY:

The GIS Support Specialist (“Specialist”) is a skilled in the management and support of one or more applications and provides support services to business users. This is a senior position in the GIS technical support team. The Specialist will act as a Subject Matter Expert for application functionality, solutions, training, and documentation. The primary focus for the Specialist is to be responsible for maintaining and monitoring the GIS environment to maximize availability and performance, provide troubleshooting and corrective action to resolve business issues, and ensures usability and support for application enhancements and bug fixes. This is a technical role and will not be involved in day-to-day functional aspects of GIS. Secondarily the Specialist will provide similar support for other operational systems as needed. Although the position is not a pure development role it will require the use of some development/programmer competencies to complete work efforts for business.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain end-to-end understanding of functional aspects of application and associated business processes.

• Working knowledge of networking environments, operating systems, relational databases, application environments, key vendor environments

• Lead internal GIS projects to completion

• Monitor incoming service requests and incidents for assigned application(s)

• Investigate and diagnose service requests or incidents according to their priority/rank and identify the resolution and/or issue.

• Work directly with users to identify and resolve issues adversely impacting business processes.

• Define technical solutions ensuring considerations for system stability, performance, and ongoing maintainability.

• Identify alternative solutions to address issues raised throughout service request or incident lifecycle.

• Adheres to and champions the IT Governance programs (e.g. change management, communication, and release management)

• Complete high-level designs and associated estimates to meet defined requirements.

• Monitor application backlog (service requests, incidents) and keep open items updated with current efforts.

• Maintain documentation (run books, technical design, build, deployment, install guides) and process standards in area of responsibility along with regular audits to validate accuracy.

• Develop documentation and provide training to users as appropriate.

• Define potential improvement changes to resolve errors, prevent the recurrence of problems or improve system maintainability and stability for assigned applications.

• Provide input to IT Project Management Office to support clear and concise requirements definitions.

• Assist team members handling major incidents for assigned applications; identify the root cause and short- or long-term solutions.     

• Prevent the replication of problems across multiple systems by sharing lessons learned and best practices with other team members and IT Management.

• Develops customer relationships by making efforts to listen to and understand the customer; anticipating and providing solutions to customer needs; giving high priority to customer satisfaction.

• Other duties as assigned.