Technical Specialist, Store Mobility

Technical Specialist- Store Mobility
Full Time permanent
2 Days On-Site, Toronto
Client: Canadian Tire

About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there’s a place for you here.
 

Job Summary

• Provide tier 2 support for CTC retail technology across all banners
• Exercise strong understanding of business processes and application usage to meet operational goals.
• Evaluate business processes to ensure operational processes and procedures align with support capabilities.
• Ensure business and operational support documentation exists for knowledge sharing.
• Act as the incident or problem coordinator where applicable.
• Lead tasks related to transitioning activities from projects to production in areas of expertise.
• Facilitate training sessions to ensure knowledge transfer and cross training across the support teams.
• Demonstrate strong leadership capabilities.

Responsibilities 

• Provide hands on application and hardware support for daily operations, including service, data and process integrity, configuration, user administration, reporting (data pulls) and optimization. 
• Overnight deployments of APKs to our prod environment. 
• Assist other project teams in APK deployments and log retrieval. 
• Identification of root cause analysis and resolution of incidents reported by the monitoring systems and end users. Analyze incidents data and work with IT team members and business stakeholders to correct the issues. 
• Collaborate with IT teams and business stakeholders to fully understand the business processes and application requirements.
• Maintain documentation and provide knowledge transfer for other system support analysts.  
• Prepare and facilitate training sessions where required.  
• Evaluate gaps in process and operational support documentation and implement plan to address the missing information. 
• Identify and raise risks as they relate to applications or hardware. 
• Identify and communicate support requirements and develop troubleshooting and repair processes. 
• Act as incident and problem coordinator where required. Facilitate regular meetings and working sessions with IT team members and different business units to address ongoing issues that require further understanding or analysis. 
• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support for our key business applications. 
• Project delivery support including but not limited to store construction, hardware rollouts. 

Required Skills and Experience 

• Minimum of 5-7 years in IT support environment. 
• Experience with SOTI MDM. 
• Understanding of the fundamentals of network and server/desktop administration, installations, upgrades, techniques, tools, materials, and equipment. 
• Knowledge of processes and resources required to perform analytical and technical tasks on PC systems. 
• Experience working with ServiceNow or similar ITSM tools. 
• Strong knowledge of Office 365 and Teams. 
• Experience with supporting Digital Signage Platforms and Kiosks. 
• Strong knowledge of retail-based applications and business processes. 
• Good understanding of hardware and networking components. 
• Excellent analytical skills and understanding of common business analysis practices 
• Ability to learn new concepts in a short timeframe and share knowledge with other team members. 
• Ability to create and deliver training sessions. 
• Strong commitment to creating and maintaining documentation. 
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. 
• Bilingual (English/French) is an asset. 

Desired behaviors 

• Builds trust and credibility by consistently adhering to the organization’s business principles and values. Is seen as direct, truthful, and trustworthy by co-workers, vendors, and customers. 
• Committed to results by taking personal responsibility for achieving mutually agreed upon individual/team objectives. 
• Demonstrates a desire to help and serve internal/external customers to meet their needs. Is proactive, responsive, and focused on discovering, anticipating, and exceeding the customer’s needs. 
• Works collaboratively and cooperatively with others to achieve shared goals and objectives. Considers the wider team, function, banner, or the organization and takes action or makes decisions which support the success of those groups. 
• Recovers quickly after change, disruptions, or mistakes and can remain productive and focused. Is adaptable and can apply lessons learned in one situation to another situation. 
• Self-driven committed to high performance. 
• Must have a high level of confidence in own abilities. 

Working Conditions 

• Ability to work in a team oriented, fast paced, and energetic environment with a drive to meet and exceed expectations.
• Ability to work on multiple projects/tasks while maintaining strict timelines to deliver results. 
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation to support core applications after hours and during weekends.