Senior Support Engineer

Job Description

Serves as a point of contact for customers, fielding inquiries via phone or electronic channels. Provides technical support by troubleshooting and resolving moderately complex issues encountered with assigned Oracle product(s). Prepares and conducts training for new product releases and/or functionality updates to existing products. Partners with internal teams to report and contribute to the resolution of non-routine design, reliability, and maintenance issues. Maintains service request and/or product documentation and creates Knowledge Base articles and/or troubleshooting guides for non-routine events and/or resolved issues. Consults internal teams and stakeholders on diverse and advanced customer situations and technical issues. Leverages automation/tooling (e.g., A.I. Assistance) to discover root causes of common issues and identities and recommends enhancements to existing support processes, workflows, guidelines, and best practices. Begins to collaborate with management to contribute to product, process, and customer experience improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
Technical Support and Solution Delivery-Customer Support and Advocacy:
-Serves as a point of contact for customers and facilitates customer relationship building, fielding inquiries via phone, electronic, or in-person means.
-Provides technical support to customers by answering technical questions, troubleshooting and resolving moderately complex issues related to assigned product(s).
-Prepares and conducts training for new product releases and/or functionality updates to existing products, providing user guidance, as needed.
Technical Support and Solution Delivery-Technical Problem-Solving and Resolution:
-Leverages advanced understanding of problem resolution, which may include fix delivery and product certification to research, re-create, and test advanced technical issues for assigned product area(s) issues reported by customers to ensure a resolution.
-Follows up with customer on service request(s) to communicate resolution and ensure all issues are resolved, escalating complex customer technical issues to appropriate technical teams for resolution, as needed.
-Partners with internal teams to report design, reliability, and maintenance problems or bugs, contributing to resolution of routine and non-routine issues through roll-up.
Technical Support and Solution Delivery-Technical Support Documentation:
-Documents activities taken on service request and/or product documentation, leveraging troubleshooting guides and/or Knowledge Base articles, through resolution.
-Prepares troubleshooting guides and/or creates Knowledge Base articles for non-routine events and/or resolved issues.
Technical Proficiency and Support Enhancement-Technical Support Collaboration:
-Maintains a deep understanding of assigned Oracle product ecosystem(s) and customer environment(s) and broad understanding across all Oracle product ecosystems and customer environments in advanced scenarios.
-Consults internal teams and stakeholders on diverse and advanced customer situations and technical issues.
-Contributes to and participates in cross-functional training, workshops, and collaborative projects and initiatives to support business processes and key business initiatives.
Technical Proficiency and Support Enhancement-Technical Support Improvement:
-Leverages automation/tooling (e.g., A.I. Assistance) to discover root causes of common issues.
-Identifies frequently reported issues and recommends ideas to contribute to the reduction of repetitive issues, escalating as needed.
-Identifies and recommends enhancements to existing support processes, workflows, guidelines, and best practices based on customer feedback and/or operational insights.
Strategic Planning:
-Begins to collaborate with management to contribute to projects and initiatives for product, process, and customer experience improvements.
Performance Monitoring and Management:
-Reviews and executes own support service performance metrics and builds awareness of team's support service performance.

Additional Responsibilities (as needed)
Vertical Lead:
-Provides on-site and in-person technical assistance, including case consultation for complex cases, to Technical Support team.
-Proactively reviews cases, providing troubleshooting guidance and recommending next action items.
-Assesses product-related issues and assists in technical reviews of issue drafts.
-Conducts internal training and learning sessions focused on product, technical, and skills development.
-Acts as the point of contact (POC) for specific products or features, ensuring that training content is up-to-date and leading release preparations for the Vertical.
-Leads discussion of case transfer and feature coordination between the Vertical and other teams or product areas.
-Participates in knowledge documentation to support repeatable, scalable, knowledge base self-services.
Services Translation:
-Provides translation services for technical and non-technical inquiries for products and services.
-Understands more niche or technical terms and provide translation services for them.
-Provides verbal translations and assists with escalations.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Independently manages work, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure projects or initiatives stay on track and meet requirements. Proactively prioritizes work and adapts to resource or timeline shifts, suggesting adjustments to maintain project efficiency.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships. Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.
Problem Solving:
-Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate. Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors. Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices.
Continuous Learning:
-Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools, and staying current with industry trends and best practices. Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills. Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members.
Continuous Improvement:
-Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $51,900 to $132,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC3

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