Lead Technical Support Specialist

OPENTEXT - THE INFORMATION COMPANY

OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.

At OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We are hiring talent AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

YOUR IMPACT:

We are looking to welcome a Premium Support Specialists to our team, with advanced technical skills in OpenText TeamSite, or the ability to learn and come up to speed quickly in TeamSite. You will work on our clients’ complex software environments and provide technical support along with proactive services like best practices, guidance, optimization, pitfall awareness, etc. to clients who are developing their solutions. You will ensure clients get the highest level of business value and are satisfied with the products, technical support and guidance they receive from OpenText with a focus on promoting retention, loyalty, and account growth. The overall objective of the Premium Support Specialist is to provide the highest level of personalized technical support to ensure clients are successful with their OpenText product solutions. This is achieved by building trust, focusing on value, being flexible and willing to go the extra mile to ensure client satisfaction.

WHAT THE ROLE OFFERS:

• Be the client's single point of contact for support incidents opened for a specific product center.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of your client’s environment
• Implement & establish a strong trusted working relationship with clients.
• Leverage deep technical expertise and knowledge of your client’s environment to resolve incidents more efficiently
• Provide timely updates on open incidents & coordinate with other OpenText experts as needed to expedite timely resolution.
• Identify and recommend best practices to help our clients minimize operational risks and avoid common pitfalls.
• Provide periodic supportability assessments & offer technical support mentoring to increase the client's knowledge.
• Understand the operational profile of your client's environment to improve the support and guidance that OpenText delivers.
• Act as a strategic partner in developing plans to proactively improve and maintain the client's software investment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, to manage both client and peer internal organization interactions, including escalations, critical situations, difficult conversations, etc.
• Delivery short-term custom offerings to address clients’ unique needs and requests.

\WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or associate degree holder (technical field) with min 3 years’ working experience in a client support environment.
• Advanced knowledge of OpenText TeamSite application
• Good foundation/knowledge working with Windows OS/Linux OS, Windows, and Linux Servers
• Good knowledge of Web Servers and HTML (i.e. Tomcat or MS IIS)
• Experience working with relational DBMS (Oracle, MS SQL Server, and IBM DB2)
• Understanding of Networking principles and Active directory
• Working experience with virtual environments (VMWare ESX, Oracle VirtualBox, Citrix)
• Development (Java, SQL, CGI, Perl, .NET, or C++) experience will be an advantage
• Previous working experience with Cloud Technologies, such as GCP, AWS and/or Azure.
• A proven track record of in-depth technical troubleshooting.
• Strong relationship and team building skills, with the ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts.
• Great communication, coordination, and collaboration skills, and ability to navigate complex, matrixed organizations.
• Ability to guide and advise clients proactively on best practices, configuration optimization, tuning and integrations.
• Willingness and ability to travel if required. (