Maarut Inc

RQ10557 - Application Support Specialist - Senior

Maarut Inc  •  Toronto, CA (Onsite)  •  11 hours ago
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Job Description


Responsibilities:


  • Provides
    support to teams within the organization, and to external clients when
    required.

  • Manage
    JIRA /eSMT incident tickets and work with project managers/product
    managers to ensure that ticket s are resolved within SLAs.

  • Identify
    and facilitate resolution of application issues by facilitating
    collaboration between various stakeholders.

  • Maintains
    and updates technical documents and procedures.

  • Work
    with Project/Product Manager (PM) towards creating performance measurement
    dashboards (such as JIRA/Devops/Power BI etc.) including sprint
    performance, sprint velocity, financial performance, and others.

  • Work
    with the PM towards maintaining client relations, facilitating client
    meetings and managing client expectations, preparing presentation
    materials, onboarding, and offboarding project resources.

  • Work
    with Project/Product Manager (PM) towards facilitating and conducting end
    user training sessions, develop training materials (manuals or videos),
    preparing meeting minutes and other documents.

  • Monitor
    and manage service agreements (budget, scope. timelines), identifying key
    performance indicators and raising flags as needed.

  • Support
    other activities as assigned by project/product managers.


General Skills:


  • Sound
    knowledge of production applications support process (ITIL) including
    incident management, change management, deployment, support, and upgrades.

  • Experience
    responding to queries and resolving issues with specified software
    applications and escalating or closing tickets, as necessary.

  • A
    team player with a track record of meeting deadlines, managing competing
    priorities and client relationship management experience.

  • Ability
    to explain complex ideas to those with limited IT and systems knowledge.

  • Exceptional
    verbal and written communication skills.

  • Listening
    ability and patience.

  • Extraordinary
    customer service and relationship management experience.


Requirements


Experience and Skill Set Requirements:


Must Haves:


  • 5+
    years of demonstrated experience in coordinating and facilitating project
    teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to
    government and ministry standards

  • Manage
    JIRA /eSMT incident tickets and work with project managers/product
    managers to ensure that ticket s are resolved within SLAs.

  • Identify
    and facilitate resolution of application issues by facilitating
    collaboration between various stakeholders.

  • Sound
    knowledge of production applications support process (ITIL) including
    incident management, change management, deployment, support, and upgrades.

  • Experience
    responding to queries and resolving issues with specified software
    applications and escalating or closing tickets, as necessary.

  • Maintains
    and updates technical documents and procedures.

  • Work
    with Project/Product Manager (PM) towards creating performance measurement
    dashboards (such as JIRA/Devops/Power BI etc.) including sprint
    performance, sprint velocity, financial performance, and others.


Skill Set Requirements:


Application Support Experience:


  • 5+
    years of proven experience in managing clients and their expectations with
    reference to IT projects or applications.

  • Working
    knowledge of business process analysis techniques, structured system life
    cycle methodologies (SDLC) for business applications

  • Demonstrated
    ability to respond to end‑user queries, troubleshoot application issues,
    configuration issues, and system access problems and resolve incidents
    efficiently.

  • Hands-on
    experience managing full incident lifecycles using a ticketed query
    system, including prioritization, escalation, and closure.

  • Experience
    supporting internal teams and external clients, ensuring consistent
    service delivery and issue resolution.

  • Ability
    to identify recurring issues and contribute to long‑term fixes and service
    improvements.

  • Experience
    assisting with or supporting systems integrations, collaborating with
    cross‑functional technical teams. For example, experience supporting
    application, build testing, production deployment, change request
    management, and release management.

  • Track
    record of meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities, and
    maintaining strong client and stakeholder relationships.


Project Co-ordination skills:


  • Experience
    collaborating with various groups to gather updates and maintaining
    project budgeting, progress reporting, action items, risk management
    updates, etc.

  • Experience
    working alongside project managers to provide updates, escalate where
    required, identify risks, and lead project document deliverables.

  • Demonstrated
    experience working in a professional environment supporting multiple
    project managers on critical projects.

  • Experience
    developing project status reports and maintaining and monitoring status
    reporting logs.

  • Experience
    monitoring and maintaining project document repository and ensuring all
    documents are reviewed and maintained in the repository.


Methodologies, Documentation & Soft Skills:


  • Experience
    in Gathering and developing requirements in order to create and maintain a
    detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.

  • Ability
    to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to
    ensure targets are met.

  • Demonstrated
    experience coordinating with project teams to ensure project deliverables
    are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards

  • Extensive
    experience coordinating and monitoring project processes and
    developing/communicating guidelines and procedures.

  • Experience
    in Developing complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels
    and cross ministry dependencies.

  • Experience
    in articulating and prioritizing issues and risks at senior executive
    levels and recommending mitigation strategies for decision makers.

  • Awareness
    / knowledge of emerging I&IT trends and directions.

  • Ability
    to adapt to changing trends, leverage emerging tools and methodologies,
    and effectively lead projects to success in today’s dynamic IT landscape.

  • Experience
    creating, maintaining, and improving technical documentation, procedures,
    and knowledge base articles.

  • Proven
    ability to deliver regular or customized training sessions and creating
    user guides.

  • Excellent
    verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain
    complex technical concepts to non‑technical audiences.

  • Demonstrated
    listening skills, patience, and empathy when supporting users.

  • Exceptional
    customer service and relationship management capabilities.

  • Strong
    critical thinking and analytical skills applied to problem solving and
    decision‑making.

  • Collaborative
    team player who works effectively across technical, business, and
    geographically dispersed teams.

  • Excellent
    analytical, problem-solving, interpersonal, and negotiation skills

  • Excellent
    oral and written communication skills

  • Demonstrated
    ability to work closely with business and other IT teams.

  • Demonstrated
    ability to develop and present new ideas and conceptualize new approaches
    and solutions.
Maarut Inc

About Maarut Inc

Maarut Inc is a Canadian company helping organizations fulfill staffing solutions based on current, future and ongoing needs of market.

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Engaging the right people with the right skills and experience can make or break your company. As an employment agency representing many talented skilled professionals who can pinch in immediate on projects, fill team gaps and support growth, we quickly deliver the exact talent you require for your needs.

Our goal is to craft flexible, targeted solutions as per your staffing needs by matching the right people, to the right job, at the right time.

Our recruiters are savvy insiders, having worked in the industries for which they recruit. They’ve walked in your shoes, so they understand the exciting, satisfying and challenging aspects of each job. They understand what makes IT placement unique, team dynamics and how each company and candidate are special.

Our recruitment team is specialized in identifying the top technical consultants with skill sets such as:

Application Development

Big Data

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Business Systems Analysis

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Database

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Infrastructure

Mainframe

Project Management

Quality Assurance

Salesforce consultants

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Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Toronto, CA
Year Founded
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