Technical Support Engineer

Medidata Solutions, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

25+ paid holidays

Job summary

Medidata Solutions, Inc. in London seeks a Technical Support Engineer to serve as the primary contact between support teams and core engineering. You will diagnose issues, develop fixes, and document resolutions for complex product problems.

The role requires a strong background in SQL, API/Web services, and toolsets like Git and Visual Studio, with on-call rotations and executive-facing communication. A hybrid in-office policy applies, with benefits and a solid Total Rewards package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Life Sciences, or equivalent engineering experience.
• Basic experience with Ruby and HTML code.
• Experience with API/web services.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for internal and external customers.
• Manage work requests that describe issues, software bugs or customer problems.
• Develop fixes or SQL scripts to resolve problems or locate patches to apply.
• Provide process analysis and recommend improvements.
• Participate in weekly on-call rotations for off-hours issues.
• Take calls from VIP customers for urgent issues and document resolutions.

Skills

Ruby

HTML

API/web services

SQL scripts

Git

Visual Studio

Virtual Machines

Excel

Postman / API client

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems or Life Sciences

Tools

Visual Studio

Postman

API/REST client

Excel

Job description

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

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.

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.