At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
As PX Support Engineer, you will be assisting to resolve customer issues/questions from the Field/Home Office in an agile environment using engineering best practices. We are an embedded support team and work very closely with our developer engineers and product business partners. You'll have the opportunity to understand of the basics of the Planning Experience application and be able to troubleshoot/resolve technical/functional issues with some to little assistance utilizing a great variety of industry best support tools and application monitoring. Our team will fill your desire to learn & work in a fast-paced environment and empower you to do what's right for our customers!
Role duties include:
Work with team members to achieve application performance and availability to meet business needs, including on-call support, responding to user issues, firefighting, monitoring, application checkouts, and engagement with high priority incidents and problems - 24/7 (including nightly batch cycles, where needed)

• Learn and apply customer and engineering best practices in order to support software/monitoring solutions to drive strong performance and high availability to meet/exceed customer expectations.
• Apply and support customer engagement workflow, including technical analysis and resolutions for incidents, service requests, and problems.
• Seek to understand and support technology needs of users, proactive monitoring for business issues, and support effective resolutions of issues
• Support effortless customer experience via partnering to create an effective use of Self Service, Community and Knowledge Management for users, and our teams.
• Develop and leverage relationships to deliver and improve your effectiveness and efficiency.

Bring Your Best! What this role needs:
Bachelor's degree in Business -OR- a rigorous trusted training program specific to Financial Planning (for example industry designations), OR- a significant amount of directly-related work experience, 1-3 years of professional experience

• Possess a support and customer-centric mindset and attitude, along with a passion for learning and building on core business knowledge and technical base.
• Strong interpersonal skills both verbally and written, Self-motivated, and ability to succeed in collaborative environment.
• Technical aptitude and ability to logically analyze and creatively solve issues independently
• Experience in customer support role (tech or non-tech) / helping resolve user's issues.

This job is not covered by the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.
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