PFE SQL at Microsft Nigeria

Microsoft Nigeria Services help customers realize their full potential through accelerated adoption and productive use of Microsoft technologies. We are a global team of exceptional people who deliver world class services with partners, earning customer confidence, trust, and loyalty by Improving the overall Customer and Partner Experience, Serving as the customer advocates within Microsoft and Driving customer-centric product improvement.

We are recruiting to fill the below position of:

Job Title: PFE SQL
Job ID: 82002899537
Division: Services & Support
Job Category: Services & Consulting

Role Purpose

• To provide Onsite Support Services and Incident Prevention Services to Microsoft
• Premier Customers. Build very successful relationships with your customer through the delivery of a highquality technical engagement in a specific technology area. Delivery of an excellent service is essential to promoting the Onsite services as the most customer focused offering available.
• The engagements may be shortterm demandled or longer term engagements with a dedicated customer.

Team/ Department Mission

• As part of the Customer Service and Support (CSS) the Premier Filed Engineering Services organization delivers Rapid Onsite Support Services and Incident Prevention Services to MS Enterprise customers.
• The PFE engineers help Premier customers during the “operate” and “improve” phase of the MS product usage.
• The Support Service can be proactive for workshop and SKU service delivery and reactive as well as response on critical situations. Increase service availability for Microsoft’s Enterprise Customers by providing proactive support consulting in a specific product or Technology area.

Key Accountabilities

• Use an adequate technical expertise in troubleshooting to support reactive cases
• Deliver proactive onsite support and knowledge transfer to the customer
• Drive on preventing incidents during your customer visits
• Deliver SKU services and customized workshops.
• Drive high customer satisfaction on GTSC support incidents.
• Maintain deep knowledge of latest products and configurations of Enterprise
• Customers by continuously increasing technical knowledge.
• Achieve high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Deliver technical workshops, presentations and documents.
• Maintain your accreditations.
• Collaborate with Microsoft teams to deliver a high quality service.
• Work with Microsoft support engineers using knowledge of your customer’s environment to accelerate problem resolution.
• Manage customer expectations and deliver a service in line with contractual obligations.
• Develop and deliver new services to exceed customer expectations.
• Take responsibility for the Microsoft engagement and your own self development.
• Work within Microsoft account teams on strategic customer deployments which may extend outside business hours.

Key Success Criteria

• Achievement of personal and team objectives.
• Customer and account team feedback.
• Ongoing feedback through appraisals
• Regular 1:1s with team manager
• Yearly formal review
• Alignment with Microsoft values.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Facetoface customer engagement skills.
• At least 2 years experience supporting Enterprise customers with MS SQL Server.
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills.
• Strong English
• Awareness of corporate environments and their business requirements
• Experience and knowledge on the following is desirable :
• oExperience with MS Windows Server 2003
• oExperience with MS SQL 2000/2005/2008 Server

Personal Attributes

• Demonstrated aptitude for providing exceptional customer service
• Strong team participant and involvement in team workload and activities.
• Integrity and honesty
• Open and respectful with others
• Willing to take on big challenges
• Passion for customers, partners and technology
• Accountable for commitments, results and quality
• Selfcritical, questioning and committed to personal excellence.

Qualifications

• MCSE / MCDBA certification or job experience.
• Degree qualification or equivalent experience.
• ITIL/Service Management experience or 3rd level support experience.

Special Requirements/Additional Information e.g. Language skills

• The majority of time will be spent on customer sites.
• Therefore the following requirements are essential :
• Full driving license
• Ability to travel
• At least 4 days per week at customer site.
• Availability to work outside of business hours when required as agreed on before

Application Closing Date
13th March, 2013

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online