Associate Iii

3 - 5 Years
- 1 Opening
- Chennai, Kochi, Trivandrum

**Role description**:
Role Proficiency:
Outcomes:

- Identify the problem patterns and suggest better resolution techniques
- Optimise efficiency cost and quality by identifying opportunities for automation/process improvements
- Assist Lead 1 - Production Support on troubleshooting and Issue resolution; begin demonstrating Lead 1 capabilities in making critical decisions
- Mentor Trainee Associate and Associate I II- Production Support to become more effective in their roles
- Act as the technical SME for troubleshooting/resolving any reported production incident/ticket/issue
- Learn business domain technology and system domain individually and as recommended by the project/account

Measures of Outcomes:

- Adherence to engineering process and standards
- Adherence to schedule / timelines
- Adhere to SLAs where applicable
- # of issues resolved
- # of non-compliance issues with respect to SOP
- Reduction of reoccurrence of known defects
- Quick turnaround of production bugs
- Defined productivity standards for the team
- # of new runbooks created
- # of production jobs automated
- # of new monitoring dashboards introduced
- Completion of applicable technical/domain certifications
- Completion of all mandatory training requirements

Outputs Expected:
Issue Resolution:

- Analyse and resolves the incidents/tickets within the optimal MTTR (Mean Time To Resolve)

Training:

- Attends one on one need-based domain/project/technical trainings as needed
- Provides need-based training to juniors on the team

Escalation:

- Escalate problems to appropriate individuals/support team based on established guidelines and procedures.
- Where applicable
monitor progress of requests for support and ensure users and other interested parties are kept informed.

Document:

- Create documentation for one's own work

Automation:

- Identify opportunities for automation/process improvements that help in optimising cost and improving quality

Mentoring:

- Mentor juniors on the team
- Set FAST goals and provide feedback of FAST goals to mentees

Status Reporting:

- Report status of tasks assigned
- Comply with project related reporting standards/process

Manage knowledge:

- Absorb and contribute to project related documents
share point
libraries
client universities

Release:

- Adhere to release management process

Skill Examples:

- Identify triage and resolve issues reported by customer
- Log Monitor and report issues as defined by SLAs
- Develop runbooks SOPs and dashboards
- Problem solving approach
- Manage and guarantee high levels of quality
- Team Player
- Good written and verbal communication abilities
- Proactively ask for help and offer help

Knowledge Examples:

- Appropriate software programs/modules/ tools- Operating Systems and software platforms
- Integrated development environment (IDE)
- DBMS
- Programming Languages
- Software life cycle methodology E.g. Agile methods
- Knowledge base of customer domain and about sub domain where problem is solved
- Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems availability
- Agile methods

Additional Comments:
**Skills**:
Ms Office,Sql,Etl,Monitoring

**About UST**:
UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.