Product Support Engineer

Dunnhumby ,
Manchester, Greater Manchester

Overview

Job Description

Dunnhumby is looking for an Product Support Engineer to help support and improve one of the largest product in Price and Promotion, you will be a Subject Matter Expert for all Price and Promotion Solution areas and will be the primary contact for dunnhumby clients beyond any solution implementation for any software related issues. Your biggest stakeholders are dunnhumby's clients, client leads, technical account management and product developers who rely on your understanding of the client's solutions, configurations and issues to deliver client value. Key Responsibilities * Providing support to users of Price and Promotion solutions, taking ownership of issues from assignment to resolution. * Where defects with the software are identified that require escalation to the Product Management and Development teams ensure that these are fully documented and communicated to those teams. * Serve as subject matter expert for Price and Promotion solutions answering solution related inquiries from both external clients and internal stakeholders. * Ensure that Service Level Agreements are adhered to in relation to all Support related incidents * Delivering all tiers of Support to clients via telephone and web and communicating fully with those clients throughout the process of triage and resolution to ensure that they are always aware of the status of their solutions and the client value of solutions is maintained. * Analysing and resolving data queries arising from source data or escalating to the relevant team where appropriate * Ensure the continued execution of batch processes in line with solution availability agreements which includes support of processing within a 24 * 7 * 365 model * Assisting in the delivery of Implementation projects by advising on solutions, configuration, best practices as well as triaging product related issues that arise from those. * Working with the DevOps team, ensuring the successful delivery of software to the operational environment * Use solution expertise to articulate and recommend options to non-custom client requirements and enhancements. * Contributing to the development and maintenance of a knowledge base covering Price and Promotion solutions. * Helping to define and scope the direction and continued improvement of all Support functions within the organization. * Maintain an up to date knowledge of products supplied to our client, including latest developments to their products * Monitoring and investigating any performance issues that are affecting solution performance and make recommendations to database tuning, configuration, data purging, batch configuration as required to resolve the issues. Knowledge and Experience * Systems/Applications Support working experience within the scope of a client facing Support team * Experience of defect, release and change management within the ITIL Framework * Fluency in querying and investigating data in SQL. * Incident management and process understanding * Experience of software development concepts, lifecycle and technologies * Experience of modern and traditional process scheduling techniques (Windows batch scheduling, Airflow) Behavioral Competencies * Strong interpersonal and communication skills * Exposure to working with distributed teams. Work as a team with others * Adaptable and flexible * High energy and self-motivation * Ability to work on multiple projects / tasks and prioritize work in a fast-paced environment * Willingness to learn the business and new technology * Team-oriented work ethic that includes willingness to help others * Excellent written communication and documentation * Great at educating others and sharing knowledge * Be driven to improve yourself and the way things are done