CMS Technical Support Specialist

Duration: 5 months to start

Job Description

The Technical Support Specialist will provide on-site support at multiple locations, troubleshoot user difficulties, provide instruction, identify potential system functional limitations for the project management team, and analyze technical ability and training needs of users. The successful candidate will combine technical proficiency with keen interpersonal skills, demonstrating an ability to guide staff through complex technological changes with patience, expertise, and professionalism.

Travel required statewide.

• Provide accurate and complete answers to general use and environment questions in a timely manner
• Serve as the point of contact for technology support and services
• Serve as the point of integration between the business functions of the department and the technology
• requirements of the department.
• Provide desktop computer support
• Ensure that all work is documented for future reference.
• Follow quality standards.
• Ensure effective and reliable backups are being performed.
• Proactively address customer needs.
• Communicate accurate and useful status updates.
• Evaluate and/or recommend purchases of computers, network hardware, peripheral equipment, and
• software
• Investigate user problems, identify their source, determine possible solutions, test and implement solutions
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Strong communication skills; both written and spoken
• Investigate user problems, identify their source, determine possible solutions, test and implement solutions