Principal Premium Support Engineer

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.

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The Opportunity
OpenText is seeking highly qualified candidates to join the Premium Support Team as a Named Support Engineer, Dedicated Support Engineer, Solutions Support Engineer We are looking for motivated, passionate and talented engineers to join our Premium Support team. We're a strong, vibrant cross-site team that help OpenText Customers by providing named and dedicated support experts that understand the customers business — helps them optimize even the most complex hybrid software environments and resolve issues quickly if they arise.

In this role, you will act as a Premium Support Engineer (NSE, DSE, SSE) on our customers' complex software environments and provide technical support to customers who are developing their solutions. You will be a product evangelist and prepare collateral as needed to present best practices for use of the OpenText line of software products to ensure customer success. The ideal candidate would enjoy being an expert on a broad range of topics, be creative and find solving problems to be rewarding.

In addition, you will ensure customers get the highest level of business value and are satisfied with the products and services they receive from OpenText with a focus on promoting retention, loyalty, and account growth.

The overall objective of the Premium Support Engineer (NSE, DSE, SSE) is to deliver experiences that customers want to have again – to earn the right to customer driven growth. This is achieved by building trust, focusing on value and enabling alignment across the OpenText organization.

Software environments can be complex. In today's fast-paced IT climate, having someone our customers can trust and who understands their software configuration can make all the difference. OpentText Premium Support gives our customer named and dedicated support personnel who really know their IT environment. A flexible blend of problem resolution, technical guidance and strategic support personnel that champion our customers' success and ensure they are getting the most out of their software investment.

Not only do you possess exceptional communication skills but can also embed yourself with customers as an extension to their business. You operate with a high level of collaboration and discipline and understand the current technology landscape and you are quickly able to gain a depth of understanding of your customer's business.

You Are Great At

• Be the customers' single point of contact for support incidents opened for a specific product centre.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of your customer's environment and implementation.
• Develop a strong working relationship with customers.
• Leverage deep technical expertise and knowledge of your customer's environment to resolve incidents more efficiently.
• Provide timely updates on open incidents and apply best practices to help our customers minimize operational risks and avoid common pitfalls.
• Provide periodic supportability assessments.
• Offer technical support mentoring to increase the customers' knowledge.
• Share prescriptive product roadmaps to assist your customers in upgrade and migration planning.
• Provide guidance on leveraging the full features and functionality of the customers' Micro Focus solution.
• Act as a strategic partner in developing plans to proactively improve and maintain the customers' software investment.

What It Takes

• Bachelor's degree preferred or associate degree holder (technical field) with 10+ years working experience in a customer support environment.
• A proven track record in the understanding of in-depth technical troubleshooting.

• In-depth knowledge and 10+ years' experience in one or more of the following products:

• NetIQ Access Manager (NAM)

• NetIQ Identity Manager (IDM)
• eDirectory
• Red Hat (or other Linux system)

• At least one RDBMS system

• Strong teambuilding and leadership skills, with the ability to negotiate and resolve conflict.

• Great communication, co-ordination and collaboration skills, and ability to navigate complex, matrixed organizations.

OpenText's efforts to build an inclusive work environment go beyond simply complying with applicable laws. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining a working environment that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.

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