Support Engineer, Custom Applications

Posted 9 Days Ago
8 Locations
Remote
Senior level
Food
The Role
In this role, the Support Engineer will manage critical sports performance technologies, ensuring compliance with IT Governance. Responsibilities include defining technical requirements, supporting custom applications, managing incidents, and communicating status updates across stakeholders. The position requires collaboration with vendors and internal teams to enhance technology initiatives and provide exceptional service.
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Build a Bigger, Better, Bolder Future:
Imagine working for a company that measures its success based off the growth of its colleagues, a company that invests in its future by investing in you. Little Caesars is a company where our colleagues make an impact.

How You'll Make an Impact:

This role will operate in tandem with venue technology, baseball performance, and Ilitch Technology systems to ensure critical sports performance and player-facing technologies are achieving desired service levels. Additionally, this role will help support compliance to our IT Governance process. 

  • Primary technology analyst for new sports technology initiatives, ensuring technical requirements are clearly defined and documented by parties (internal and external) 
  • Partner with key vendors to capture technology dependencies, and surface requirements with Ilitch Technology Shared Services team: Venue Technology, Infrastructure, Cloud, etc. 
  • Understand the business needs and key priorities, and translate into action plans 
  • Ensure technology requirements are scoped, estimated and surfaced in budgets 
  • Deliver exceptional customer service with Baseball and Hockey Operations, in close partnership with Venue Technology
  • Primary support and escalation for custom applications built by Ilitch Technology team 
  • Maintain support documentation and foster knowledge across teams 
  • Respond to incidents and customer reported feedback 
  • Partner with development team and Network Operations Center to establish alerting 
  • Ensure incidents are managed to closure, including feedback to development for continuous improvement 
  • Clear and timely communication of status, adapting to evolving needs and different platforms 
  • Flexibly operate across different communication platforms, and adapt to evolving conditions 
  • Proactively communicate the status across in-flight and in progress initiatives 
  • As needed, serve as point of triage & coordination with key outages or business impacting incidents 
  • Ongoing support and vendor relationship management for 3rd party technology providers 
  • Understand planned software upgrades/enhancements to vendor platform(s), surfacing to Ilitch Technology shared services as needed 
  • Surface technology incidents with vendors, and help facilitate to closure 
  • Review new technologies from Sports & Entertainment, facilitate review by IT Governance 
  • Facilitate onboarding data collection and follow up with key internal and external stakeholders 
  • Communicate status of IT Governance review, and manage internal documentation 
  • Facilitate “transition to support” (TTS) activities for new technologies introduced by Baseball and Hockey Operations 
  • Coordinate with vendors and key internal stakeholder groups to understand status of work and communicate accordingly. Where applicable, collaborate with Ilitch Technology project management office 
  • Understand support level expectations and define a process to meet those expectations 

 

 Who You Are 

  • Experience in sports and entertainment environment is required  

  • Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related field. Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a formal degree. 

  • Minimum of five (5) years in an IT technical support role. 

  • Must have a strong understanding of various technologies, including hardware, software, networking, data center technologies. 

  • Must demonstrate exceptional professionalism and perform with a clear demonstration of customer service skills. 

  • Polished communication skills, both verbally and written 

  • Demonstrated ability to work with all levels of colleagues from senior management to new hires. Proven analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills  

  • Ability to troubleshoot issues independently and within a team support structure. 

  • Ability to adapt and remain flexible to changing and growing sports and entertainment businesses. 

 

What Will Make You Stand Out:  

  • ​Working knowledge of sports performance technologies, is a plus 

  • Experience working in live entertainment venue or event operation environment a plus 

 

Work Conditions: 

Irregular and extended work hours including nights, weekends, and holidays may be required. Travels as needed in support of special events. Exposure to high noise level Exposure to varying outdoor temperatures Frequent visual and auditory attention, flashing lights. Ability to handle high-pressure, extremely time-sensitive situations. Ability to life 25-50 lbs. 

 

All items listed above are illustrative and not comprehensive. They are not contractual in nature and are subject to change at the discretion of Little Caesars Enterprises Inc.


Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to that individual’s race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The Company will strive to provide reasonable accommodations to permit qualified applicants who have a need for an accommodation to participate in the hiring process (e.g., accommodations for a job interview) if so requested.
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The Company
Detroit, Michigan
27,882 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

ABOUT LITTLE CAESARS®

Headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, Little Caesars was founded by Mike and Marian Ilitch in 1959 as a single, family-owned restaurant. Today, Little Caesars is the third largest pizza chain in the world, with stores in each of the 50 U.S. states and 27 countries and territories.

Little Caesars recently introduced contactless options for both delivery and carry-out through the Little Caesars app. Pizzas are baked in 475-degree ovens to ensure food safety and never touched after baking. The chain has also reinforced cleanliness and sanitization procedures, increasing the frequency of cleaning commonly touched surfaces including door handles, glass, countertops, Pizza Portal surfaces, phones, and cash registers.

Known for its HOT-N-READY® pizza and famed Crazy Bread®, Little Caesars has been named “Best Value in America” for the past twelve years (based on nationwide survey of national quick service restaurant customers conducted by Sandelman & Associates - 2007-2019 entitled “Highest Rated Chain – Value for the Money”). Little Caesars products are made with quality ingredients, like fresh, never frozen, mozzarella and Muenster cheese and sauce made from fresh-packed, vine-ripened California crushed tomatoes.

An exceptionally high growth company with 60 years of experience in the $145 billion worldwide pizza industry, Little Caesars is continually looking for franchisee candidates to join our team in markets around the world. In addition to providing the opportunity for entrepreneurial independence in a franchise system, Little Caesars offers strong brand awareness with one of the most recognized and appealing characters in the country, Little Caesar

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