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Industry: Technology

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Introduction

IBM Optim is a data management solution that helps organizations manage data throughout its lifetime, from requirements to retirement. It offers a centralized archiving solution, test data management, protection of data, and data governance.

Successful candidates will provide technical support assistance to customers using problem determination / problem source identification skills. They will utilize technical and negotiation skills in collaboration with development and other support organizations. This includes recommending and implementing improvements to existing technical support tools, procedures, and processes, contributing to department goals, and attaining organizational objectives through high customer satisfaction.

You will be part of an international team and organization that is distributed around the globe. You will act as a global team member contributing to seamless 24x7 "follow-the-sun" support for IBM's customers. You will be working with customers around the world.

You will go beyond the industry standard technical support practices and will become an expert of the product, with a strong knowledge of the product internal components as well as how the solution is utilized by customers. Your top priority is always going to be customer success and customer satisfaction; by answering their technical questions and resolving their product related issues you will contribute to their success.

This is going to be an excellent opportunity for you to work with the latest technologies and to grow your skills in one of IBM's key data management products. You will be challenged to never stop learning, as we want you to grow for our customers, our company and finally for your own career.

Your role and responsibilities

The Technical Support engineer:

• Provides technical support assistance to customers using problem determination/problem source identification skills.

• Utilizes technical and negotiation skills in collaboration with other support operations/organizations to prioritize and diagnose problems to resolution.

• Communicates action plans to the customer or IBM representative as appropriate.

• Recommends and implements new or improvements to existing technical support tools, procedures, and processes.

• May provide training for and mentor others on the team.

• Contributes to department attainment of organizational objectives and high customer satisfaction.

• Documents problem solutions within the company knowledge base.

• Manages requests and priorities daily.

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Your responsibilities

Provide technical support assistance to customers using problem determination/problem source identification skills.

Communicate action plans to the customer or IBM representative as appropriate.

Strong communication skills to interact with enterprise customers, understand their issues, and guide them to resolution.

Review diagnostic information to assist in isolation of a problem cause (which includes interpreting traces).

Provide technical support within established guidelines; demonstrating soft skills and technical skills that contribute to client satisfaction.

Partner with other support teams and service units to provide seamless problem resolution that lead to delightful client perceptions, utilizing technical and negotiation skills.

Ability to document findings, create knowledge base articles, and contribute to technical support tools, procedures and processes.

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Contribute to department attainment of organizational objectives and high customer satisfaction.

Demonstrate proficiency in the products supported by maintaining applicable technical certifications.

May provide training for and mentorship for others on the team.

Required education High School Diploma/GEDPreferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise Over 5 years experience in Database Management systems and tools Technical ability to analyze and resolve issues related to these products Experience in Operating systems (Windows/Linux/UNIX) administration and troubleshooting.

Experience in Computer Networks and Communication Advanced skills in log analysis, trace interpretation, and root cause identification.

Ability to debug in Java, C/C++, or scripting languages Familiarity with database backends (DB2, Oracle, SQL Server).Ability to investigate configuration related issues and resolve accordingly.

Preferred technical and professional experience Experience with Optim Archive, Data Privacy or Test Data Management is a bonus.

Demonstrated communication skills Analytical thinking, structured problem-solving techniques Strong positive customer service attitude with sensitivity to client satisfaction.

Must be a self-starter, quick learner, and enjoy working in a challenging, fast paced environment.

Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, including problem recreation, analyzing logs and traces, debugging complex issues to determine a course of action and recommend solutions.ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Client-provided location(s): Krakow, Poland

Job ID: IBM-80279

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-12-19T18:48:41
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