RQ11184 - Application Support Specialist - Senior

Maarut, Inc.

$75K — $95K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in application support, preferably in Salesforce environments
  • Demonstrated ability to manage incident ticket queues and prioritize effectively
  • Experience with identity-management tasks, specifically Microsoft Entra ID
  • Proven customer support skills in a SaaS context
  • Knowledge of health information privacy legislation, especially in the public sector
  • Familiarity with AODA and Ontario Design System standards
  • Proficiency in English; French is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical expertise on Salesforce and related applications
  • Troubleshoot and resolve application issues following established protocols
  • Manage and document ticketed queries in a central system
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver tailored training
  • Assist in systems integration efforts and document procedures
  • Participate in incident management processes, ensuring timely resolution
  • Maintain technical documentation including upgrade plans and change requests.

Benefits

  • Flexible work hours and remote work options
  • Access to ongoing training and professional development
  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs
  • Supportive team environment fostering collaboration
  • Participation in service continuity and organizational exercises.
Full Job Description
Job 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
  • Creates, updates, deactivates, and reactivates user portal profiles via Salesforce User Management.
  • Administers identity-directory tasks within the application support scope (e.g., Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD): security-group membership management, B2B guest invitations, and approver management in Entitlement Management.
  • Manages the hardware authentication token (FIDO2) lifecycle - assignment, verification, de-registration, and de-commissioning.


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
  • Acts as the Tier 2 point of contact engaging Tier 3 support teams and vendors on behalf of end users; raises infrastructure-level identity, MFA, and platform requests to the appropriate teams through the established service-request process.
  • Coordinates with change-management teams and business users for account changes and onboarding, using standardized intake and request conventions.


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.
  • Working knowledge of privacy obligations (e.g., PHIPA / FIPPA) and privacy-incident / breach handling for systems holding personal or personal health information.


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
  • Participates in incident and Major Incident management - triage, priority assignment, the Major Incident bridge, parent/child incident records, and post-incident review - and meets defined service-level targets.
  • Performs Tier-2 containment for cybersecurity incidents (e.g., disabling affected accounts and de-registering affected tokens) and runs a parallel privacy-breach assessment for incidents involving personal or personal health information.
  • Supports service-continuity and degraded-mode procedures, including manual fallback processes, and participates in periodic continuity exercises.


Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

Salesforce & SaaS Platform Knowledge

  • Experience supporting Salesforce-based applications
  • Familiarity with Salesforce ecosystem (objects, workflows, flows, permissions, reports, dashboards)

Incident & Ticket Management

  • Demonstratedability to:
  • Manageticket queues and SLAs
  • Prioritizeincidents based on impact/urgency
  • Escalateappropriately while ensuring closure quality
  • Maintainsclear, searchable knowledge base entries

Customer Support & Service Orientation

  • Provenexperience providing end-user support in a SaaS environment
  • Strongcustomer-first mindset
  • Abilityto manage high-pressure situations and user expectations

Identity & Access Management

  • Identity-directoryadministration (e.g., Microsoft Entra ID): security groups, B2B guestinvitations, approver / Entitlement Management
  • Hardwareauthentication token (FIDO2) lifecycle management


Skill Set Requirements:

Public Sector Experience:

  • Experience working in the healthcare industry, specifically in providing application support, testing on systems for Long-Term Care, Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), Hospital Information Systems (HISs), Clinical Assessment tools, etc.
  • Knowledge of personal health information protection legislative requirements and how they apply to developing and maintaining healthcare systems containing personal health information, preferred
  • Knowledge of AODA and Ontario Design System (ODS) standards


Technical Experience:

Salesforce & SaaS Platform Knowledge

  • Experience supporting Salesforce-based applications
  • Familiarity with Salesforce ecosystem (objects, workflows, flows, permissions, reports, dashboards)

Application Support & Troubleshooting

  • Proven ability to triage and resolve application issues within Salesforce environments
  • Experience analyzing:
  • Data issues (records, validation rules, workflows)
  • Configuration issues (profiles, permissions, flows)
  • Knowledge of debug logs, error tracing, and root cause analysis

Integrations & Data Handling

  • Understanding of data flows, data quality, and synchronization issues
  • Familiarity with integration troubleshooting and dependency management

Ticketing & Support Tools

  • Experience using incident/ticketing systems (ServiceNow, Jira, Salesforce Service Cloud, etc.)
  • Ability to document, track, and manage incident lifecycle effectively

Reporting & Analytics

  • Experience creating or supporting Salesforce reports and dashboards
  • Ability to extract and analyze data to support business users

Salesforce (Preferred/Plus)

  • Hands-on experience with:
  • Configuration (not necessarily development)
  • User administration
  • Certifications (e.g., Salesforce Administrator) are a plus

QA / Testing (Preferred/Plus)

  • Experience in:
  • Functional testing / regression testing
  • Writing or executing test cases and test scripts
  • Understanding of:
  • UAT support
  • Defect tracking and validation

Identity & Access Management

  • Identity-directory administration (e.g., Microsoft Entra ID): security groups, B2B guest invitations, approver / Entitlement Management
  • Hardware authentication token (FIDO2) lifecycle management


Operational Excellence & Delivery:

Incident & Ticket Management:

  • Demonstratedability to:
  • Manageticket queues and SLAs
  • Prioritizeincidents based on impact/urgency
  • Escalateappropriately while ensuring closure quality
  • MajorIncident process: bridge protocol participation, parent/child incidenthandling, and post-incident review
  • Maintainsclear, searchable knowledge base entries

Process Discipline & Documentation:

  • Experiencecreating and maintaining:
  • Applicationsupport documentation
  • Knownerror databases
  • Focuson process adherence and continuous improvement

System Maintenance & Release Support:

  • Involvementin:
  • Releasecycles, deployments, and post-release validation
  • Supportingmaintenance schedules and upgrades
  • Abilityto support change management processes

Training & Enablement:

  • Experience:
  • Trainingend users on Salesforce or business applications
  • Creatinguser-friendly documentation and guides
  • Abilityto translate technical configurations into business context

Coordination & Delivery:

  • Workseffectively with:
  • Internalteams (dev, QA, business analysts)
  • Externalvendors (if applicable)
  • Demonstratesability to manage competing priorities and deadlines


Communication & Customer Focus:

Stakeholder Communication

  • Clear,structured written communication (tickets, KB articles, releasenotes)
  • Strongverbal communication with both technical and business users
  • Abilityto explain Salesforce concepts to non-technical users

Customer Support & Service Orientation

  • Provenexperience providing end-user support in a SaaS environment
  • Strongcustomer-first mindset
  • Abilityto manage high-pressure situations and user expectations

Collaboration & Teamwork

  • Evidenceof strong cross-functional collaboration
  • Contributesto team knowledge sharing and support culture

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving

  • Abilityto:
  • Analyzepatterns across incidents
  • Identifyrecurring issues and suggest improvements
  • Makeinformed decisions under pressure

Soft Skills

  • Stronglistening skills and patience
  • Proactive,accountable, and adaptable
  • Highlevel of professionalism and responsiveness

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