Enterprise Applications Technical Specialist

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Job Posting Title:
Enterprise Applications Technical Specialist
Location:
Dallas - Shared Services
Additional Posting Details:
Monday - Friday
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Job Description:
Duties/Responsibilities
Administer, configure, monitor, maintain, and support assigned enterprise applications across production and nonproduction environments.
Diagnose and resolve complex application, integration, authentication, data, performance, and availability issues; coordinate escalations with vendors and internal teams as needed.
Plan and execute application upgrades, patches, service packs, releases, and configuration changes, including readiness assessment, dependency analysis, testing, deployment, validation, and rollback planning.
Manage the complete application lifecycle, including evaluation, architecture review, implementation, transition to support, optimization, version currency, technical debt reduction, and decommissioning.
Maintain application roadmaps, upgrade schedules, support matrices, licensing information, technical documentation, runbooks, configuration records, and knowledge articles.
Support interfaces, APIs, scheduled jobs, data exchanges, middleware, and application dependencies; monitor failures and restore service promptly.
Work closely with Microsoft technologies, including Windows Server, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Active Directory, Azure, PowerShell, SQL Server, IIS, and related security and administration tools.
Automate repeatable administration, monitoring, deployment, reporting, and support activities using PowerShell or other appropriate scripting and orchestration tools.
Apply change management, release management, incident management, problem management, and configuration management practices to application support activities.
Develop and execute technical test plans for upgrades, integrations, disaster recovery, security changes, and application enhancements; document results and remediate identified issues.
Partner with cybersecurity and infrastructure teams to implement access controls, vulnerability remediation, certificate management, logging, backup, recovery, and business continuity requirements.
Monitor application health, capacity, performance, availability, support trends, and vendor service levels; recommend improvements based on measurable results.
Serve as a technical liaison among application owners, business teams, vendors, project teams, and support groups, translating business requirements into sustainable technical solutions.
Participate in an on-call rotation and planned after-hours maintenance when required to support critical systems and minimize operational disruption.
Required Skills/Abilities
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, management information systems, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
Five or more years of progressively responsible experience supporting, administering, integrating, and upgrading enterprise applications in complex environments.
Demonstrated experience leading or performing application upgrades, including planning, dependency assessment, testing, deployment, validation, issue resolution, and post-implementation support.
Strong knowledge of application lifecycle management, software release practices, environment management, vendor support models, and application retirement processes.
Microsoft certification in Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows Server, Power Platform, security, or a related discipline.
Experience supporting enterprise applications in a regulated or highly available environment.
Experience with application monitoring, automation, APIs, middleware, source control, deployment pipelines, and cloud platforms.
Familiarity with disaster recovery planning, high availability, data retention, audit requirements, and vendor risk management.
ITIL Foundation or equivalent service management training.
Working Environment
Working Conditions: Inside
Working Position: Sitting
Physical Demands: Light
Physical Requirements: Repetitive Movement
An Individual in this position will be required to lift or carry weight in this group: Up to 10lbs
Sensory/Communicative activities essential to the performance of this position: Feeling, Hearing, Seeing, Speaking
An Individual in this position will be exposed to: Inside environment