Our Company

Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform for enterprise analytics company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale. Only Teradata gives you the flexibility to handle the massive and mixed data workloads of the future, today.

The Teradata Vantage architecture is cloud native, delivered as-a-service, and built on an open ecosystem. These design features make Vantage the ideal platform to optimize price performance in a multi-cloud environment.

Are you a problem solver? Do you like fast-paced technical environments that allow you to work with customers, field representatives, and engineers? If so, a position as a Technical Support Engineer at Teradata is a great fit for you.

What We Do

Teradata Technical Support Engineers work with our Fortune-500 Clients to solve technical problems they encounter with our Cloud Analytics and Database tools. Along with incident management and initial problem-solving capabilities for the world’s leading analytics platform and database, you will provide the technical/functional knowledge necessary to resolve customer problems. Our team is a 24x7 high-volume global support center. Along with incident management, we provide technical/functional knowledge necessary to resolve customer’s problems, both internal and external.

What You’ll Do

The Technical Support Engineer works in a fast-paced, demanding technical customer support center environment that requires timely solutions to complex technical problems, often of a critical nature to the customer. As a Technical Support Engineer, you will perform troubleshooting activities, escalate problems to the appropriate party(s), and assist in communicating the solution to the customer. You will develop and maintain a working knowledge of current hardware, software, firmware, processes, and tools. You are required to have both strong technical and interpersonal skills. The work environment requires 24x7 coverage. This position will also be providing support to customers in Brazil in the local language (Portuguese).

• Accept and respond to incoming calls and emails
• Provide Initial problem triage and clarify problem definition
• Search knowledge bases for known solutions to known problems
• Identification and management of duplicate incidents
• Extract logs, dumps, error files from customer systems
• Prepare and transmit source upgrade files
• Provide remote support to on-site resources
• Isolates standard problems
• Log problem resolution and support knowledge creation
• Coordinates activities associated with product/service resolution issues
• Apply search tools to identify previously developed solutions and recognize patterns and symptoms
• Coordinate with customers and end-users to implement solutions.
• Track, monitor, and maintain incident progress
• Manage the coordination of problem records and associated activities to drive problem resolution
• Drive service quality and process improvement through continuous business process analysis

Skills and Experience You’ll Need to Be Successful

• Current USA B1/B2 Visa Required (or ability to obtain as a condition of employment)
• Fluent in English, Portuguese, & Spanish (Effective oral and written communications skills required)
• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 1-2 years of Technical Support related experience
• Basic Database and Operating System knowledge
• Experience in a Help Desk/Customer Service position
• Work schedule flexibility required (Work set schedules including weekends and holidays)

Ideally, you will also have the following

• Knowledge of Support Center procedures and troubleshooting protocols
• Knowledge of Lean Problem Solving
• Knowledge of UNIX, Linux, Windows, and other current operating systems

Knowledge of Teradata support tools including the installation of remote tools