Technical Support Engineering
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![]() United States, Texas, Irving | |
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OverviewWith more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft's products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers' expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft's portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.The BI Customer Support team at Microsoft is a group of dedicated, technology-oriented, customer obsessed professionals focused on enabling our Microsoft mission by delighting our customers and exceeding their expectations in every interaction through connected customer experience. Our goal is to facilitate and accelerate the consumption of Microsoft BI technologies into the core operations of enterprises. We work at the forefront of innovation, ensuring smooth operation and optimization of BI solutions for a diverse range of client needs.As a Technical Support Engineer, you deliver unique value by collaboratively and reactively solving customer problems, providing proactive support advice, contributing to product quality and enhancements, and creating self-help assets to broadly reach more customers. You will be part of a team responsible for providing outstanding technical support experience to our business customers. From problem identification to full resolution, you will own and manage the customer experience over the phone and Web. When needed, you will collaborate with others to engage subject matter experts, Engineering (Product Groups) or Management. Your day-to-day job will be about providing both technical expertise (either on your own or by involving your colleagues) and about being an excellent communicator and a service-oriented professional. You will be given the opportunity to become a subject matter expert in one or more areas and receive guidance and mentorship from your colleagues. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesResponse and ResolutionResolves customer issues through problem solving, collaboration, and research. May take escalated issues as needed. Documents technical work and research.Reviews complex issues (e.g., multiple components of a product) and contacts customers to understand issue. Ensures customers stay informed as to the status/solution of their issue. Utilizes troubleshooting tools (e.g., event logs, performance traces) to help resolve customer issues.Performs in-depth product troubleshooting and remediation when needed.Collaborates on cross-team and cross-product technical issues by working with resources from other groups as needed to resolve moderately complex customer issues. ReadinessAssists in the implementation of end-to-end readiness programs (e.g., mentoring, knowledge sharing or technical document creation, brown bag sessions, blogs, quality assurance checks). Develops readiness content. Mentors new Technical Support Engineers. Develops intermediate level competence on support topics. Product/Process ImprovementIdentifies and provides feedback to address process gaps in an effort to streamline processes and shares best practices broadly.Identifies potential defects and escalates to more senior engineers to resolve.Applies broad knowledge of automated tools being used across other technologies and products. Provides feedback for tool improvement.Provides feedback to more senior engineers or serviceability team on functionality of products based on engagements with customers. Provides feedback to the product group for product improvement.Participates in case triage meetings and/or case discussions to share knowledge with other engineers and contribute to more rapid customer solutions. Utilizes learnings from triage meetings to identify and communicate readiness needs to manager or readiness team.Other: Embody our culture and values |