Senior Platform Configuration Engineer

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Senior Platform Configuration Engineer

Job Overview:

As a Senior Platform Configuration Engineer at Five9, you will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality consulting and implementation services to Five9's enterprise customers. This position requires a deep understanding of cloud contact center solutions, a passion for customer success, and a drive to implement solutions that meet our clients' business needs. You will be responsible for leading the deployment, configuration, and optimization of Five9's products, ensuring successful project delivery from inception to go-live.

Reporting to the Supervisor of Professional Services team, this customer-facing role includes currently existing deliverables for PCE, with the additional expectation of being an advanced resource and involvement in the mentorship program for the VCC and other Five9 partner systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Takes the lead in requirements gathering, configuration, product training, solution testing, and production rollout. Act as a Project Engineer (PE) or as a Solution Architect (SA) when working on accounts. Whichever role type will be needed and applied to a project's implementation will be assessed and decided upon by PS management.
• Build customer trust by setting expectations and ensuring their business needs align with the Five9 solution.
• Exchanges standard/basic information with colleagues and immediate supervisor, project leaders, and other professionals in the team and group.
• Technical resource for multiple internal and customer-facing projects simultaneously while needing little or no oversight and/or direction. This includes standard and advanced projects but is not limited to:
  • Integrations with Five9 partners (Salesforce, NetSuite, Velocity, etc.)
  • Digital Channel (Chat/Email/SMS)
  • Complex IVR configuration
  • APIs and Data dips (queries)
• Self-learn and implement new Five9 Integrations. Considerations include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Integrations that require more than just screen pops
• Configuration including API post/get method to 3rd party CRM (IB and OB), advance scripts, HTML formatting, etc.
• Handle escalated implementations requiring technical expertise and/or customer management needs.
  • Provide an extra pair of eyes or takeover escalations that require technical expertise.
• Mentor IMs and other PCEs.
• Handle add-on projects alone that don't need a PM.
• If the need arises and as deemed by the Manager and Director of Professional Services, you may also work on Enterprise projects to fill the gaps in resources within the PS organization.

Key Requirements:

• Preferably with minimum of 12 years of professional experience working in a Contact Center as Service or Software as a Service related industry.
• 7 years of experience working as a Contact Center Software Professional Services Consultant
• Able to explain and elaborate on Five9 technical matters regardless of customer's level of proficiency and complexity.
• Experience implementing Genesys, InContact/NICE or Contact Center Software Projects
• Experience in Advanced Integration projects (Salesforce, Velocify, NetSuite, Zendesk, ServiceNow, Dynamics 365 etc.)
• All intermediate-level expertise will be used as a pre-requisite on top of any of the following criteria indicated below:
  • Able to articulate and implement SSO requirements and solutions to the customer by him/herself.
  • SMS API through WFA
  • WFA implementation
  • Able to articulate and implement uncharted API systems with Five9 (e.g., HubSpot, home-grown CRMs, etc.)
  • Nested IVR trees with the use of external variables
  • (optional) Able to implement Securepay or IVA
  • (optional) HookAPIs
  • ESS (Event Subscription Services)
  • Able to translate SIP requirements to business language to both internal and external.
  • Digital Channel Implementations
  • DVA connection
• Others:
  • Reporting build and consultation. Able to articulate the business requirements from and to the customer.
  • Data analysis from the previous system and use it for decision-making in Five9.
  • PS Custom Asset implementation
  • PS Live Chat/Social
  • Contributor or Core lead for release readiness
• Knowledge of any programming language is a plus.
• Preferably graduate of IT or related technical course.

Key Skills:

• Demonstrates Advance Technical Skills.
• Able to provide customers with best practices and recommendations for managing their call centers in a consultative manner.
• Demonstrate Five9 and PS values and actively apply them to projects.
• Own technical aspects of the implementation.
• Must be a strategic thinker; able to understand the 'Big picture"; able to think quickly and adeptly while solving complex problems.
• Capable of handling demanding customers and managing Customer/Sales/management escalations
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Willing to work in a permanent night shift schedule.

Company Benefits

• Company stocks
• Annual merit increase based on performance
• 15% night shift differential pay
• Paid Leave with Cash Conversion
• HMO with free dependents
• Retirement Plan
• Life Insurance
• While on work from home setup: Internet and meal allowance are provided
• Employee Assistance Program for mental and social well-being
• Government-mandated Benefits (SSS, PhilHealth, PagIBIG, 13th month pay, Solo parent leave, Special leave for women)

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