Senior Technical Support Analyst
Role Overview
The role provides advanced operational support for IT applications and point-of-sale technologies, coordinates major incidents, and works with IT operations, business users, technical teams, and vendors.
The position escalates complex application, POS, payment, pump, batch-processing, interface, and data-flow issues and supports enhancements and new initiatives.
The description names the role IT Application and POS Support Specialist, which differs from the posting title.
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Role overview
The role provides advanced operational support for IT applications and point-of-sale technologies, coordinates major incidents, and works with IT operations, business users, technical teams, and vendors.
The position escalates complex application, POS, payment, pump, batch-processing, interface, and data-flow issues and supports enhancements and new initiatives.
The description names the role IT Application and POS Support Specialist, which differs from the posting title.
Responsibilities
- Provide Level 1 and Level 2 support for retail applications, POS systems, PDI, payment integrations, pumps, back-office systems, and related processes.
- Investigate complex production incidents and escalate critical outages involving POS, pumps, payments, networks, or PDI.
- Coordinate incident response and vendor engagement; communicate technical causes, risks, and recovery actions to stakeholders.
- Manage tickets to service targets, supporting retail pricing, inventory, settlement, accounts receivable, reporting, transactions, and site connectivity.
- Support onboarding of capabilities, integrations, sites, and initiatives into production; maintain operational documentation and procedures.
- Coach less experienced analysts and contribute to root-cause analysis, problem management, trend reviews, automation, monitoring, and service improvements.
- Participate in after-hours incident response, maintenance, release support, and on-call rotation as required.
Requirements and education
- 2 to 3 years of experience supporting business-critical applications, retail technologies, or POS environments.
- Experience troubleshooting production issues across applications, interfaces, networks, hardware, payments, or batch processes.
- Ability to write and interpret basic SQL queries.
- Experience coordinating issue resolution among technical and non-technical teams.
- Experience using an IT service-management platform such as ServiceNow.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, documentation, and presentation skills; able to manage multiple priorities under pressure.
- Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Analysis, or a related discipline; equivalent education and experience may be considered.
- Previous retail technology or help desk experience is an asset.
Core competencies
- Analytical troubleshooting, sound judgment, and incident ownership.
- Customer and retail operations focus; calm execution under pressure.
- Clear communication of technical and business impact and collaboration across vendors, IT teams, and business functions.
- Continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, attention to detail, quality, confidentiality, and follow-through.
Working conditions
- May require after-hours incident response, maintenance activities, release support, and participation in an on-call rotation.
- Work occurs in a fast-paced retail technology environment with strict operational timelines.
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