IT Executives Support Engineer

What are we looking for in our IT Executives Support Engineer?

Contract: 12 Months (with possibility of long-term extension)
Client: Financial
Pay-range: $45-55/hour on W2 Depending on Experience

The Team and Your Role

The Team is dedicated to delivering the highest level of technology support to the firm’s most senior managers.  Our global team works closely together to optimize the firms technology for each senior manager and provides 24/7 support.         

The role is highly visible and thought-provoking.  It requires high levels of technical proficiency, soft skills, and adaptability.  Your keen problem-solving abilities will guide you in resolving issues in a timely manner.  You will be a steward for the firm’s senior managers, ensuring that you enable them to fulfill their roles through technology.       

Qualifications and Responsibilities

• Confidence in representing the whole of Technology to the firm’s most senior managers (VIPs)
• Maintain a continuous focus on technology and information security
• Provide advice and suggestions for VIPs’ professional and personal technologies
• Ability to streamline support models and improve processes based on user feedback and continuous improvement methodologies
• Identify areas where technology can enable and enhance the lives of senior management
• Advanced screening of new technologies, including pre-pilot, pilot, and UAT
• Design, develop and maintain strategic reports to provide visibility into the technology service space via metric analysis
• Create and/or and maintain tools and processes for the Executive Service Team
• We’re looking for people who are curious, self-directed, self-motivated and highly reliable.  Many of the issues we face are unique and complex and require creative thinking, perseverance, patience and a willingness to ask questions in order to arrive at a solution.
• Self-starter with good interpersonal skills to facilitate working with end-users and other IT colleagues.
• Maturity to be able to execute job functions with minimal guidance.
• Ability to effectively host calls with senior members of the Firm, translate complex technical problems, and develop quick response plans to information security incidents.
• Very strong verbal and written English communications skills.
• To be best prepared for this role, you should have a background in Microsoft Windows operations or system administration, ideally in a demanding enterprise organization. Experience with one or more enterprise operations tools, such as Wireshark or Splunk would be a great help.
• Experience working with SAS Cloud providers like Microsoft, Google, Adobe, AWS and others.

Your Responsibilities

• Provide a single point of contact for all IT related issues to senior management (VIPs)
• Troubleshoot desktop technologies and mobile devices (both personal and firm issued)
• Coordinate any technology service offering available via the firm (procurement, multimedia, mobile, telephony, etc.)
• Field non-standard technology request
• Home support visits as needed
• Board support of quarterly meetings for Executives and Directors
• Liaise with global IT service teams in support of senior managers
• Communicate scheduled outages, planned system upgrades, new application deployments, or any IT initiatives that impact service 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree and/or 3-5 years of experience in the technology service space
• Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience in fast pace/financial services environment preferred
• Experience supporting Microsoft office suite including Outlook, Blackberry Work and iOS devices
• Enjoy working as part of team and independently as well

Pride Global / Russeltobin offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

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Rate/Salary: $45-55/hour on W2 Depending on Experience