Technical Support Engineer New

Location: This is a hybrid in-office role.

Medidata follows a hybrid office policy in which employees who are hired for an in-person position are expected to work on site a certain number of days per week following Company policy.

About our Company:

Medidata is powering smarter treatments and healthier people through digital solutions to support clinical trials. Celebrating over 25 years of ground-breaking technological innovation across more than 38,000 trials and 12 million patients, Medidata offers industry-leading expertise, analytics-powered insights, and one of the largest clinical trial data sets in the industry. More than 1 million registered users across approximately 2,300 customers trust Medidata's seamless, end-to-end platform to improve patient experiences, accelerate clinical breakthroughs, and bring therapies to market faster. A Dassault Systèmes brand (Euronext Paris: FR0014003TT8, DSY.PA), Medidata is headquartered in New York City and has been recognized as a Leader by Everest Group and IDC. Discover more at www.medidata.com. Listen to our latest podcast, from Dreamers to Disruptors, and follow us at @Medidata.

About the Team:

The Technical Support Engineer is a technical expert who acts as the primary contact between different support teams and core engineering teams. They handle work requests (which can be internally or externally generated) that have been routed for diagnosis and implementation while regularly updating internal and/or external customers. The Technical Support Engineer will handle work requests directly, or solicit assistance from the core engineering teams within the R&D team for non-known issues/defect reporting. They would also identify application defects, then test and document them for the core engineering teams to fix as part of the product. The Technical Support Engineer is a seasoned analyst who has a proven record of customer satisfaction, a reference point for the entire team on various application topics and is able to resolve most of the items escalated from the previous support teams.

Responsibilities:

Provide support for internal and external customers

Manage work requests that describe particular issues, software bugs or customer problems

Develop appropriate fixes or SQL scripts to resolve customer problems, or identify existing scripts or patches that must be applied

Provide general process analysis and make recommendations for improvements

Participate in weekly (and occasional weekend) on-call rotations for off-hours important issues escalation

Participate in taking calls (during business hours) from VIP customers for urgent issues

Distinguish between application database, operating system, network, and hardware problems and properly take ownership of issues through to resolution

Present complex technical information to non-technical audiences

Provide accurate and complete problem resolution documentation for future reference and management reporting

Take part in the creation and maintenance of knowledge base data

Continually increase subject matter knowledge on Medidata products

Interact with other Medidata teams to ensure application efficiency, effectiveness and conformance with regulatory and legislative controls

Reproduce technical problems, debug systems, diagnose causes, identify temporary and long-term solutions and communicate status updates to clients

Experience using Incident Management and/or Project Management software

Experience with multiple integrated software products/services

Ability to query/modify data using SQL scripts

Experience with working with customers to resolve complex issues in a professional manner

Finding innovative workarounds to issues

Knowledge of other programming languages: Ruby, Javascript, etc

Experience with Git, Visual Studio, Virtual Machines, Excel, Postman or any API/REST client

Team Working skills

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree preferably in Computer Science, Information Systems or Life Sciences, or equivalent engineering experience

Basic experience with Ruby and HTML code

Experience with API/web services.

SQL training/work experience

Basic experience with C#, Javascript, Visual Studio and ASP.NET

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Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Medidata provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a commission on the terms of applicable plan documents, and many of Medidata's non-sales positions are eligible for annual bonuses. Medidata believes that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most and provides benefits, including medical, dental, family leave, life and disability insurance, a generous pension, and 25+ paid holidays per year.

We will accept applications on an ongoing basis until we fill the position.