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Sr. Support Engineer - Frontline Central

Frontline Education
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 Jun 2024

About the role

Location Requirements: Hybrid to Wayne PA, Naperville IL, or Austin TX.

Your role on the team:  

The Sr. Support Engineer (Tier IV) is a member of the Client Support Organization and reports to a Director, Client Support. The Sr. Support Engineer handles Tier 4 technical escalations and customized support related to data migrations, reporting, ETL and system support across other client systems inside and outside of Frontline.   

You can expect to: 

  • Independently handle Tier 4 technical escalations and customized support related to data migrations, reporting, ETL and system support across other client systems inside and outside of Frontline. 
  • Provide customized support related to data integrations across other client systems and complex product issues.  As a Sr. Support Engineer, you are expected to develop expertise in at least two solutions. 
  • Subject Matter Expertise for solutions within your own suite to independently investigate and remediate issues within defined SLAs.  Cross skilled for at least 1 product outside of your suite (Tier 1 support). 
    • Handle complex issues and problems and refer only most complex issues to higher-level staff. Possesses expert knowledge of subject matter.  
    • Evaluate functionality of specific portions or modules of an existing application. 
    • Handle at or above average number of requests/projects for Support Engineer group. 
    • Troubleshoot technical issues that require extensive research and data review within the solution that CS Support levels I-III are unable to resolve. 
    • Provide direct technical mentorship and feedback to Support Engineers; levels I,II & III. 
  • Support clients through the full duration of Frontline’s regular support hours, with occasional weekend hours required for urgent client issues or needs. 
  • Assist support team in live queues during peak season; applicable key performance metrics for support specialist role apply during this time. 
  • Partner with Product and Development teams on troubleshooting, new feature rollouts, and larger integration and service initiatives.   
  • Work with individual customers on requested services, integrations, maintenance, and troubleshooting; may provide technical training to clients or internal users. 
  • Address data integration needs, analyze system capabilities partnered with client specifications and design the solution to customize features accordingly.   
  • Assist clients and third parties with data transfer via web services/API. 
  • Create/modify customized reports as needed for client specific use: 
    • Troubleshoot and create complex data reports for clients that are used for IC and CS team members. 
    • Create final reports for Clients who have churned. 
  • Make configuration adjustments as necessary to configure data integrations with internal and external systems outside of Frontline.  
  • Regularly analyze & report out on trends for ways to prevent future problems.  
  • Vet bugs and defects, assist the Support Engineer III- Solution Analyst in entering related problem and JIRA tickets (when appropriate), and communicate issues to internal stakeholders. 
    • Prioritize bugs for Development team. 
    • Communicate system outages to key partners and laisse with Development team. 
    • Properly tag all requests with correct subcategory. 
    • Properly address escalation requests from Support Engineers.   
    • Follow up with clients within 48 hours following negative ratings to seek to improve client experience.  
  • Regularly contribute to the creation of internal and external documentation for complex issues, technical services and user guides.  
  • Include knowledge base content on each request as appropriate and communicate identified gaps in knowledge base content. 
  • Participate in User Groups and other customer events and/or visits to glean customer issues, communicate product updates, make presentations and serve as SME. 
  • Communicate with customers regarding defect and enhancement status; consult with customers via CSM for enhancement ideas or product issues, especially for strategic or other key customers. 
  • Be a culture carrier, embodying the company's core values internally and externally. 

What you bring to the role:  

  • Ability to meet key performance indicators such as first call resolution, schedule adherence, and customer satisfaction. 
  • Ability to research, analyze, develop, and recommend processes and procedures to improve the customer's overall experience.   
  • Ability to analyze and influence support metrics, support channels and self-service tools to measure deflection of support.   
  • Detail oriented and self-m

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