RQ11179 - Int. Application Support Specialist
- Toronto, ON, Canada
$31.59 to $42.31 CAD / hour
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Job details
- Pay
- $31.59 to $42.31 CAD / hour
- Posting language
- English
Original job description
RQ11179 - Int. Application Support Specialist
1-year 3+ month contract (322 business days) - possible extension
ONSITE 5 days - 5700 Yonge St, Toronto
Security Level: CRJMC
Intermediate App Support LTC Digital Services
MUST HAVES:
1. Salesforce & SaaS Platform Knowledge
- Experience supporting Salesforce-based applications
- Familiarity with Salesforce ecosystem (objects, workflows, flows, permissions, reports, dashboards)
2. Incident & Ticket Management
- Manage ticket queues and SLAs
- Prioritize incidents based on impact/urgency
- Escalate appropriately while ensuring closure quality
- Maintains clear, searchable knowledge base entries
3. Customer Support & Service Orientation
- Proven experience providing end-user support in a SaaS environment
- Strong customer-first mindset
- Ability to manage high-pressure situations and user expectations
Nice to Have:
1. QA / Testing (Preferred/Plus)
- Functional testing / regression testing
- Writing or executing test cases and test scripts
- UAT support
- Defect tracking and validation
- Certifications (e.g., Salesforce Administrator) are a plus
- Public sector experience
Description:
Technical Expertise:
Provides expertise and technical knowledge about an application or suite of applications, possessing specialist knowledge of operating systems, applications, and software
· Experience supporting Salesforce-based applications
· Experience resolve application issues within Salesforce environments
· Assists with systems integrations
· Manages ticketed query system and ensuring comprehensive database of queries and resolutions is kept up to date
· Maintains and updates technical documents and procedures
· Identifies and resolves technical issues
· Aids with maintenance plans and upgrades schedules for the organization's systems
· Develop reports for teams across the business
· Balance scheduled service activities with urgent support requests and respond quickly.
· Act as a liaison between users and technical teams (DBAs, System Administrators, Network Administrators, Privacy and Security Specialists).
· Provide desktop support through the ticketing (eSMT) system and ensure high-quality, timely service.
· Create and maintain documents for technical upgrades, such as change requests, implementation plans, resource schedules, and back-out plans.
· Salesforce Admin certification would be beneficial but is not essential.
· Experience in Functional testing / regression testing, Writing or executing test cases and test scripts
Relationship Management and Communication:
· Provides technical support to teams within the organization, and to external clients when required
· French proficiency would be beneficial but is not essential.
· Delivers regular and customized training to teams within the business
· Liaise with the development and Quality Assurance teams, inclusive of third-party vendor and ministry teams
· Present complex information equally well to technical and non-technical audience and act as a knowledgeable liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders during the implementation phase
· Participates in the operation's quality assurance testing and review processes
· Promote the appropriate application of I&IT to business problems, and undertake comprehensive business needs assessments and analysis of complex business requirements for IT business solutions
· Deliver expert-level troubleshooting capabilities to resolve complex issues affecting critical business and infrastructure systems and applications
· Manage and escalate issues in a timely, appropriate, and effective manner, and provide clear analysis of options regarding how to proceed with problem resolution
Business Knowledge:
- Monitor progress, resolve problems and report regularly to I&IT management and clients' decision makers
- Develop performance measures for business analysis evaluation and conduct follow-up.
- Knowledge of AODA and Ontario Design System (ODS) standards.
Ensure continuous support of infrastructure and solutions:
- Create and maintain documents (e.g. change requests, resource schedules, implementation plans etc.) for upgrades and operational activities Support creation and review of build books, run books, deployment guides and other operations processes as required
AI Disclaimer: Source Code may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in certain aspects of its recruiting and business operations.
Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.
INCORPORATED RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)
- $39.49/hr - $42.31/hr Inc.
T4 RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)
- $31.59/hr - $33.85/hr T4
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Application Support Specialist at Source Code will support Salesforce applications, resolve user issues, and manage the ticket queue and knowledge base. The role also keeps technical documents current, delivers training, and works between users and technical teams.
Requirements
Candidates need experience supporting Salesforce-based applications and end users in a SaaS setting, plus strong ticket and incident management skills. Salesforce Administrator certification, QA and testing experience, French, and public sector experience are assets.
Skills
- Salesforce
- Salesforce objects
- Salesforce workflows
- Salesforce flows
- Salesforce permissions
- Salesforce reports and dashboards
- eSMT ticketing system
- Ticket queue management
- SLA management
- Incident prioritization
- Escalation management
- Knowledge base authoring
- Functional testing
- Regression testing
- Test case writing
- Test script execution
- UAT support
- Defect tracking
- Systems integration
- Technical documentation
- Change request documentation
- Upgrade and maintenance planning
- Report development
- Customer support
- Technical training delivery
Categories
- Technology
- Customer Service & Support
- Government & Public Sector
Keywords
- Salesforce
- Salesforce Administrator
- SaaS
- application support
- application support specialist
- ticket management
- incident management
- help desk
- service desk
- eSMT
- SLA
- knowledge base
- functional testing
- regression testing
- UAT
- test cases
- test scripts
- defect tracking
- AODA
- Ontario Design System
Seniority
Mid level
Tools
- Salesforce
- eSMT
Languages
- French