Salesforce Support Software Engineer

As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we’re dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we’re looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

Position details:

As a Software Engineer this role is involved in the full systems life cycle from designing, configuring, testing, implementing and supporting application software and systems that are delivered on time and within budget. You will focus on end user support and continuous improvement.  You will partner with Architects, Business Analysts and Product Managers to understand the business requirements that drive the analysis and physical design of technical solutions.

Software Engineers may be assigned to either development or support functions.

You will:

• Collaborate with business colleagues, to diagnose and resolve technical issues.
• Develop and maintain working knowledge of the systems supporting the business processes for the Sales and Customer Service Teams
• Provide business analysis, support and design options for technical solutions of defined business problems
• Provides ongoing production support, including engagement with end users and collaboration with technical teams to diagnose and resolve technical issues.
• Provide status updates and formal communications of work efforts as appropriate.
• Complete analysis that drives understanding and actions items related to continuous improvement opportunities.
• Maintain awareness of and engage as appropriate with the technologies and Business processes interact with Sales and Customer Service solutions.
• Participate actively in daily standups, and all other team meetings
• Assist post-production support to address production defects and align on the transition from build to run.
• Handles and implements third-party integrations including trouble-shooting and partnering with vendors/partners on issue resolution.
• Provide analysis, assessment, and applicable documents needed to enhance page layouts, workflows, validation rules, user visibility, custom code (Visualforce or Apex), etc.; coordinate with other teams as needed
• Create test strategies, conduct testing, and promote changes through our multi-tier environment
• Develop and Maintain Knowledge articles for problems/user issues.
• Support data load and maintenance activities as defined.
• Actively contribute to continuous improvement and knowledge sharing opportunities driving improvement across the team.

You have:

• Process-driven analysis skills
• Facilitation skills to elicit requirements/issue details from various personas across the organization including senior executives
• Proven experience in driving consensus across multiple stakeholders
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to work effectively with clients, team members, and management
• Experience successfully analyzing and documenting complex business processes
• Experience with Data loads and job scheduling
• Knowledge of Agile/Lean framework and methodology
• Experience with influencing the design and deliverables of projects.
• Enjoys working in a highly collaborative team environment consisting of both technical and business members where functionality is designed and released on a biweekly basis
• Must have a proactive, results oriented attitude, can lead by example to coach and mentor others, with a superb work ethic and the flexibility to work within an environment of constant change.
• Pursues learning beyond scope of current assignments.
• Able to present complex technical information to a non-technical audience.
• Ability to adapt to changing business processes, technologies, and environments.
• Business Systems Analyst experience
• Experience working with the Agile development methodology.

Rewards and Benefits:

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• Paid time off (PTO) days and 6 company holidays per year
• Benefits starting on day one, including medical, dental vision and life insurance
• 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period with no personal contribution required
• Employee discounts, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing, free access to financial counseling, education and more.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one’s employment.  With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.