Application support lead

Number of employees

460

Bristol, United Kingdom

Posted on: 2022-06-08

Category: transportation

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Vertical is a British aerospace tech company that's pioneering electric aviation through designing and building the UK's first all-electric, vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL). A quieter, faster, more sustainable way to travel between urban destinations. 

Why work with us? 

We at Vertical Aerospace are pushing the boundaries of what is possible, creating technology to achieve sustainable air travel like never before. Vertical comprises a world-class team of leaders, experts, engineers who're all striving towards the same goal, to make air travel personal, on-demand, and carbon free. This is your chance to be a part of this extraordinary team.

Vertical is one the world’s leading eVTOL businesses, and a pioneer of this ground-breaking new segment, which marks the beginning of sustainable aviation. 

Founded in 2016, Vertical uniquely combines the best of the aerospace, Formula 1 and automotive industries and has become one of only seven companies globally to have successfully flown multiple full-scale eVTOL prototypes.  The VX4, is a world-leading fully composite tilt-rotor winged eVTOL that will carry one pilot and four passengers or cargo.  VX4 is in plan to be  certified in late 2024, placing the business in the top two companies globally with a commercially viable aircraft capable of spanning intra and intercity passenger and cargo eVTOL markets. 

We are looking for an Application Support Lead who will:

Drive the uptime and availability of the business ERP acting as the lead SME for the wider business. You will be working within the IT delivery team to help support and cross train the wider team, as well as being the main point of escalation with IT. You must have experience working across a wide range of business systems and have experience working with functional leads across procurement, Finance and engineering on business requirements. You will partner heavily with Portfolio Managers/delivery manager on backlog planning and execution of improvements to meet business priorities.

The responsibilities and duties of the Application Support Lead will be as follows:

  • Assisting with the implementation of a new ERP system (Infor)
  • Administration/Maintenance of existing ERP application (rootstock+ peripheral systems), and process uptime - focusing on limiting customer impact.
  • Managing the support tickets process (point of escalation). Liaising to ensure issues are understood clearly.
  • Establishing strong relationships and working closely with cross functional teams to maintaining ERP and peripheral systems including Disaster Recovery, Server/Application and Storage maintenance/upgrades.
  • Partner with the Business, Project team, Delivery Managers, and our vendors to gather requirements, understand the technical design challenges of proposed solutions, review the availability of the required process, and process changes that all align to our business strategy.
  • Data management – migration, testing transformation (ETL) experience

 

The successful Application Support Lead will have the following Experiences & Qualifications:

  • Experience in a broad range of technologies, Microsoft, Azure, engineering application, 3DX
  • Strong experience with ERP systems, preferably Infor and Rootstock experience
  • Excellent communication and management skills.
  • Strong documentation and process management
  • Previous experience in an application support role
  • Application monitoring and incident management

 

This is an on-going advert and interviews will be held on an ad-hoc basis until sufficient applications have been received.

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