Application Support Specialist

Posted 13 Hours Ago
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2 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Mid level
Insurance • Financial Services
The Role
Provides application support by diagnosing and resolving incidents, managing service requests within SLAs, triaging tickets, escalating complex issues, and maintaining accurate records. Administers user access, roles, permissions, reference data, parameters, and workflow configurations under change control. Requires application support experience, SQL knowledge, ITIL practices, ticketing-tool experience, analytical problem-solving skills, customer-service orientation, and English and French communication abilities.
Summary Generated by Built In

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Incident and service request management
• Respond to, diagnose and resolve application incidents and service within agreed SLAs.
• Triage and prioritise tickets by business impact; handle non-routine problems through research, isolation and resolution.
• Escalate incidents that need specialist input to Internal IT or the software vendor, with clear evidence and reproduction steps, and follow them through to closure.
• Keep users informed throughout the lifecycle of their ticket and keep ticket records in Ticketing system accurate and complete.

2. Application administration and configuration
• Set up and maintain user access, roles and permissions for new users, movers and leavers, in line with approved access requests.
• Maintain reference tables, parameters and workflow configuration in business applications, following change control.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
• A degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field
• At least 3 years’ experience in application support, technical support or a similar role supporting business users.
• Hands-on experience with a ticketing tool (e.g. Jira Service Management, ServiceNow) and working to SLAs.
• Working knowledge of SQL for querying and investigating data.
• Understanding and practical use of ITIL processes (incident, problem, change and request management).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on continual service improvement.
• A customer-service mindset and clear written and spoken communication in English and French.

The Company reserves the right: 

  1. To convene only the best qualified candidates to participate in the selection exercise. 
  2. Not to make any appointment following this advertisement.  

Skills Required

  • Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
  • At least 3 years of experience in application support, technical support, or a similar business-user support role
  • Hands-on experience with a ticketing tool such as Jira Service Management or ServiceNow
  • Experience working to service-level agreements
  • Working knowledge of SQL for querying and data investigation
  • Understanding and practical use of ITIL incident, problem, change, and request management processes
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Clear written and spoken communication in English and French
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The Company
HQ: Port-Louis
530 Employees
Year Founded: 1855

What We Do

SWAN provides the full range of non-banking financial solutions, from Insurance, Pension & Actuarial services, to Wealth Management & Securities Trading.

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