Senior Technical Consultant (Back-end)

Senior Technical Consultant (Back-end), Professional Services

Who are we looking for?

As a Senior Technical Consultant within our Professional Services team, you are essential to our customers’ success. You are responsible for designing and implementing optimal Khoros solutions to meet customer needs. On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for: understanding customer goals and guiding them to appropriate technical solutions; designing, implementing, and overseeing the development of these solutions; contributing to pre-sales efforts (feasibility, scoping, analysis, estimation); working with colleagues, as needed, throughout the design and delivery lifecycle.

This is a customer facing role. As such, you will be expected to have good communication skills and should enjoy working with customers. This position will be focused on supporting our US region, and will be required to accommodate US working hours (approximately 6:30 pm to 2:30 am IST). 

Responsibilities

• Working with customers to understand goals or requirements and guiding them to an appropriate technical solution; scoping, estimating, architecting, and implementing customizations and integrations on Khoros' core products; articulating complex technical concepts in layman's terms.
• Overseeing the delivery of projects from a technical standpoint with the goal that the completed implementation adheres to the intended design and properly addresses the business requirements.
• Leading the technical track of a project and delegating project tasks to other engineers; collaborating with other engineers to solve technical problems and unblock project tasks; executing code reviews.
• Consulting with customers on Khoros customization and integration best practices via video conference, phone, email, and occasionally in person.
• Managing and accounting for your own time and activities.
• Contributing to operational and process improvements within the department.
• Due to the nature of our customer-centric team, participation in occasional off-hours deployments and/or occasional rotation in on-call outage assistance may be required.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional web development experience.
• 3+ years experience in a customer-facing technical consulting role or similar position.
• Strong command of the English language (written, spoken, colloquial). You should have a clear telephone voice and good diction.
• Confidence in your presentation skills – ability to capture attention and deliver key messages in a variety of contexts (small groups to larger audiences).
• Able to connect strategic objectives to technical solutions; diplomatically questioning assumptions and approaches while collaborating to identify the best path forward.
• Strong foundation in at least one object-oriented programming language (e.g. Java, .NET, Python)
• Strong foundation in  a variety of back-end technologies, such as NodeJS, ExpressJS, and GraphQL
• Experience with test-driven development and unit testing
• Solid understanding of system architectures, experience integrating with third party APIs, and a proven track record of quickly integrating new technologies and concepts into your skill set
• Experience with one or more of the following:
• MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, or similar relational databases
• SSO Integrations (SAML, Oauth 2, Open ID Connect)
• CRM Integrations (i.e. Salesforce, MS Dynamics, Zendesk, etc.)
• General software systems literacy to be applied in the context of customer consultation and technical delivery.
• Professional experience with:
• Feasibility analysis and scoping technical work using a variety of methodologies (formal and informal)
• Leading technical tracks of projects and delegating tasks to junior teammates
• Ability to apply critical thinking to customer and team objectives in order to understand requirements, goals, and issues and formulate possible solutions.
• Comfortable breaking down large problems and concepts into achievable segments; talent for troubleshooting
• Eager and able to learn independently while also recognizing when to seek help.
• Strong time management skills when serving multiple customers with competing priorities.

Preferred

• Prior experience working with US-based customers, and ability to understand the cultural nuances of working with US-based customers.
• Experience with AWS (especially AWS Lambdas), or similar cloud-based services
• Experience with debugging and tools like Sumologic, Splunk, Datadog, or New Relic
• Familiarity with public key cryptography including TLS/SSL, SSH, and X.509 PKI
• Familiarity with UNIX command-line tools and scripting.
• Working knowledge of software revision control systems including Git and Subversion.