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Application IT Specialist 80-100 %

The AO is a medically-guided, not-for-profit organization, a global network of surgeons, and the world's leading education, innovation, and research organization specializing in the surgical treatment of trauma and musculoskeletal disorders. We have a global network of more than 460,000 health care professionals in 160 countries. Each year we offer 800 educational events around the world, supported by over 7,000 faculty members and attended by over 98,000 participants. We have over 18,000 surgeon members working in the fields of trauma, spine, craniomaxillofacial, veterinary, and reconstructive surgery. For more information, visit: https://www.aofoundation.org/
Employment Type:  Permanent
Part-time percentage:  80-100%
This position is located in: 

Davos Platz, CH

Experience level:  Experienced professional
Please send us your application documents in:  English or German

Department Description

As a member of the Application engineering Team in our IT department (based in Davos, Zizers and Dübendorf), you will provide comprehensive application support for all IT systems related to community development and event management, which are centered around the Salesforce platform, to all our business teams organizing the world-wide educational events for surgeons and the various governance meetings within the AO Foundation.

In this role, you will be required to

  • Assess the impact of new requirements on Salesforce, as well as other applications, systems and processes
  • Collaborate in projects with our preferred suppliers and internal customers
  • Handle administrative functions including user account
  • Plan, realize, test and implement Salesforce extensions together with external partners
  • Release- and Change-Management
  • Run quality management of the solution and system
  • Support of the testing processes in collaboration with our dedicated tester team
  • Monitoring of the system
  • Support our business stakeholders on 2nd level issues and coordination to 3rd level support

To master this challenge, you have

  • Ideally a higher education in information technology (or apprenticeship in IT)
  • Tech Skills: essential IT skills, Windows/Linux Server, Cloud technologies
  • Experience with Salesforce implementation (design, configuration, deployment), or a Salesforce Administrator certification are an advantage
  • Advantageously experience and certifications/accreditation for other systems
  • Agile mindset and in-depth knowledge of IT standards, architectures, methods, and practices
  • Creative, supportive and analytical thinker with strong problem-solving skills
  • Strong organizational and business analysis skills; detail-oriented and able to work independently
  • The willingness to actively shape the digital transformation and are open-minded towards new technologies
  • Profound knowledge in MS Office 365, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online and OneDrive
  • Good communication skills in English, German is a plus

We offer

  • An interesting and varied job in an exciting and innovative organization
  • The opportunity to be part of a highly committed international team
  • Modern infrastructure
  • Employment conditions which match the requirements and offer a high degree of flexibility regarding working hours and location

If you meet the requirements of this challenging opportunity, please submit your complete online application (motivation letter, CV, recent photograph, certificates, reference letters, etc) through our online application system.
Date of publication:  Sep 28, 2022

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