Technical Support Engineer

Motorola Solutions; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Leicester seeks an experienced Application Support Engineer. The role involves providing expert support, managing customer relations, and ensuring timely resolution of technical issues. Ideal candidates will have a background in application support, strong organizational skills, and the ability to thrive in a customer-facing position. This hybrid role offers competitive salary and benefits including bonus schemes and employee development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary and bonus schemes

25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays

Attractive defined contribution pension scheme

Employee health and well-being support

Career development support

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an application support engineer or in a similar role within the software industry.
• Experience in a customer-facing role.
• Exceptional organisational and communication skills.
• Understand ITIL methodologies.
• Ability to identify and manage risks effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert-level technical support for the whole of our product and service catalogue.
• Lead the response on major incidents and ensure timely resolution.
• Work closely with product and testing teams to address and resolve customer issues.
• Perform root cause analysis to identify underlying problems and implement effective solutions.

Skills

Technical support

Incident response

Customer relationship management

Root cause analysis

Organisational skills

Analytical skills

Job description

Company Overview

Motorola Solutions is dedicated to keeping people safer through its global critical communications, video security and command center technologies that support public safety agencies and enterprises alike.

Department Overview

Based in Leicester, we are a recent acquisition by Motorola with around 50 employees. We have been developing solutions since the 1980s and continue to expand with future opportunities in the UK and beyond. This role is hybrid, with the majority of the week spent working out of the Leicester offices.

Job Description

The role is primarily responsible for conducting investigations into client issues and ensuring problems are resolved within contracted SLAs. The employee will, once trained, liaise with clients to discuss problems in their supported applications using domain terminology and own issues until resolution. This will involve conducting technical investigations, providing patches or workarounds, escalating calls, liaising with product specialists, preparing replies to clients in accessible language, and updating the support toolset and procedures.

The role also has wider team responsibilities including answering support calls, giving advice and assistance, updating call records, handling system upgrades, and other application/platform support functions.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert-level technical support for the whole of our product and service catalogue.
• Lead the response on major incidents and ensure timely resolution.
• Work closely with product and testing teams to address and resolve customer issues.
• Perform root cause analysis to identify underlying problems and implement effective solutions.
• Assist with the ongoing maintenance of customer environments, ensuring solutions are kept up-to-date and secure.
• Create and maintain knowledge base articles, technical guides, and FAQs to assist both customers and support staff, ensuring documentation is clear, accurate and accessible.
• Be part of an on-call rota, available for after-hours support to handle urgent issues and ensure continuous service availability. (on-call allowance included).
• Assist in the implementation of process improvements to enhance support efficiency and customer satisfaction.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, understanding their needs and ensuring their satisfaction.
• Participate in projects related to product enhancements, migrations and deployments for in-life customers.
• Provide recommendations on how we can improve the quality, deliverability and supportability of our products.

Basic Requirements

Person specification:

• Proven experience as an application support engineer or in a similar role within the software industry.
• Experience in a customer-facing role.
• Exceptional organisational and communication skills.
• Understand ITIL methodologies.
• Ability to identify and manage risks effectively, with a proactive approach to problem solving.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and present data clearly.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

Must be able to attain NPPV3 and SC clearance. Must be a resident of the UK for a minimum of 3 years to obtain.

Benefits and Additional Information

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes.
• Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).
• 25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.
• Attractive defined contribution pension scheme.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Life assurance.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• Career development support and wide-ranging learning opportunities.
• Employee health and wellbeing support (EAP) and wellbeing guidance.
• Carbon neutral initiatives/goals.
• Corporate social responsibility initiatives including volunteering days.
• Well-known company discount scheme.

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Travel Requirements: Under 10%

Relocation Provided: None

Position Type: Experienced

Referral Payment Plan: Yes

Company: Motorola Solutions UK Limited

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.