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The Technical Application Consultant is the trusted technical business advisor to customers, providing guidance around operations and optimizations of their IT infrastructure regarding Anthology’s products. Technical Application Consultants are assigned specific customer account(s) to build the technical support relationship between the customer and Anthology; provide consulting and guidance; provide emergency solutions while escalating priority one issues; and serve as a primary technical liaison across internal departments. More than a technical point of contact, the Technical Application Consultant is a personal advocate working on a customer’s behalf to help proactively prevent issues before they arise, as well as escalating and driving the resolution of incidents that do occur.

This role requires a focus on partnering with customers by maintaining long-term relationships and clearly understanding technical challenges, corporate infrastructure, and key business drivers. This includes leading customer meetings and quarterly reviews, reviewing customer business practices and existing data, preparing weekly status reports, managing daily calls and meetings, and disseminating information internally to management and stakeholders. Technical Application Consultants can also provide a development component in writing ad-hoc scripts, building automations with workflows, or custom reporting and more. The ideal candidate must demonstrate leadership skills and be proactive, self-starting, professional, quality-focused, and committed to being highly engaged with customers.

Primary responsibilities will include:

Account Management roles and responsibilities

Serving as primary customer technical contact
Developing and fostering strong customer relationships
Identifying and evaluating business processes and assisting in defining accurate and efficient best practices
Meeting specific customer satisfaction goals

Development roles and responsibilities

Developing T-SQL customizations
Developing custom automations using Workflow technology
Developing to create Forms Builder websites
Developing custom reports using SSRS or PowerBI

Additional roles and responsibilities

Troubleshooting technical problems and answering general support questions for our various Anthology products
Maintaining documentations of customizations, integrations, and environment details
Consulting with customers on technical issues and recommending sound solutions
Solving unexpected complex issues to maintain operational efficiency
Providing feedback to the development team on issues pertaining to each product
Performing on-call duties during holidays, nights, and weekends as needed

The Candidate:

Required skills/qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in CIS or related field or equivalent experience
At least 5 years’ experience coding, debugging with Microsoft T-SQL programming
Ability to establish relationships and network within an organization to achieve results
Demonstrated ability to prioritize and multitask in a deadline driven high pressure environment
Experience with Windows Server, including IIS
Ability to build knowledge and skill in Anthology products
Fluency in written and spoken English

Preferred skills/qualifications:

Experience writing reports in SSRS or PowerBI
Experience with working with OData and REST APIs
Ability to develop in C# or VB.NET
Experience working with Azure
Azure Developer Associate certification
Experience managing, coaching, and mentoring customer’s development teams to achieve high performance results

Pay range is $106,200 - $120,000/year depending upon experience. We use national and industry-specific survey data to assist in determining compensation. Additionally, we consider factors such as external market rate, budget for the role, and the compensation rates of current employees performing the same function. Some roles will have variable pay.

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.

Anthology is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.

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