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Our Systems team are the gateway between our client facing brands and our development company Calrom. Responsible for coordinating bug fixes, test plans, system releases; they ensure both our bespoke travel systems and integrations are running seamlessly.

The department operates flexibly between the hours of 08:00 – 19:00, Monday to Friday. The breakdown of your normal hours of work will be by agreement with your manager.

The role:

The core focus of this role will be to work within a Level 1 Help Desk (Software support), providing quality service to our airline and travel trade customers, as well as other teams within the business internally.

Tasks & responsibilities include:

• Provide helpdesk support and be recognised as a subject matter expert on internal systems and GDS systems.
• Deliver high quality System updates and enhancements through detailed QA testing.
• Ensure our products, applications and Systems are working as expected.
• Be the first point of contact for customers when they require any systems assistance.
• Investigate queries from customers during their usage of our systems.
• Investigate technical queries and problems, including working with XML and JSON files.
• Investigate fare and pricing related queries.
• Triage issues to the relevant department if we are unable to answer a query or provide a fix ourselves.
• Answer any general questions from customers about our products.
• Understand customer businesses and how they use our products.
• Follow issues through to resolution in conjunction with various departments.
• Communicate updates, answers and fixes to customers as required.
• Investigate and escalate any reports of outages and down time.
• Provide support and be recognised as a subject matter expert on designated products and systems.
• Assist in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of new functionality, fixes, and version upgrades.
• Liaise with system development teams, product owners and other relevant teams.
• Contribute to knowledge base comments and articles to further internal and external knowledge transfer.
• Look to increase online documentation and self-help system usage.
• Produce user guides & deliver training.

The successful candidate will:

• Be a committed, enthusiastic, and supportive team member.
• Be aware of company’s goals and aims and strive to achieve at every opportunity.
• Deliver an efficient and professional service to TIG’s internal and external customers.
• Attend and contribute in a positive and objective manner at team meetings or any relevant departmental/company meetings.
• Compile accurate business letters/reports as required.
• Acknowledge correspondence within set standards and timescales.
• Assist other departments when and where necessary to ensure business continuity and minimum standard performance.
• Maintain systems to ensure quality control.
• Strive to continuously improve the quality (presentation, accuracy, and coverage) of information relevant to the business.
• Aim to “self-learn / develop” skills and understanding of industry practices, procedures and policies that would impact on Aviate.
• Knowledge of net airline fares & rules (desirable, but training will be provided).
• Knowledge of groups airfares & rules (desirable, but training will be provided).
• Booking & Pricing via GDS (desirable, but training will be provided).
• Comfortable reading XML requests and responses (desirable, but training will be provided).
• Commercially astute with a strong customer service ethic.
• Knowledge of Outlook, Excel & Word.
• High levels of accuracy.
• Prioritising and time-management.