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This position will plan, coordinate, and manage all activities related to strategy, configuration, enhancement, support, and governance of Salesforce-based application solutions supporting customer issue management, case management, workflow automation, and operational reporting. This role will lead a team responsible for supporting and optimizing a purchased Salesforce application that serves as the enterprise platform for customer issue intake, tracking, escalation, investigation, resolution, and reporting. The manager will champion a configuration-first philosophy, leveraging standard Salesforce capabilities and packaged application functionality whenever possible while minimizing custom development. The successful candidate will partner closely with business stakeholders, product owners, vendors, and IT teams to continuously improve customer resolution processes, enhance user adoption, ensure platform stability, and maximize business value from Salesforce investments. This role manages a team of employees and contractors while overseeing application delivery, vendor relationships, integrations, operational support, release management, and continuous process improvement initiatives. Demonstrates a customer-first mindset through a commitment to delivering the best possible outcomes for our customers, which include; injured workers, payors, clients, providers, stakeholders, and internal teams. By fully leveraging Paradigm’s solutions, delivering consistently high-quality service, and collaborating effectively with internal and external partners, we create an exceptional customer experience.\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\nSALESFORCE APPLICATION MANAGEMENT\nManage the administration, support, enhancement, and optimization of Salesforce-based applications.\nEstablish and enforce a configuration-first philosophy utilizing Salesforce declarative capabilities such as Flows, Validation Rules, Dynamic Forms, Permission Sets, Approval Processes, Reports, and Dashboards.\nEvaluate requests for custom development and ensure a documented business case exists before customization is approved.\nCollaborate with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable and supportable Salesforce solutions.\nMaintain application architecture, configuration standards, data governance standards, and documentation.\nEnsure platform security, compliance, and access management requirements are maintained.\nStay current on Salesforce platform enhancements and emerging capabilities including Service Cloud, AI, workflow automation, and analytics.\nLead platform upgrades and manage the adoption of new Salesforce features and capabilities.\nManage Salesforce sandbox environments, release processes, and deployment activities.\nEnsure business continuity through proper backup, recovery, testing, and deployment practices.\nSupervise the work of other application development team professionals and effectively delegate responsibilities to staff to enhance their professional growth.\nDevelop mentoring relationships with multiple staff personnel and manage related HR activities, including annual reviews and performance feedback.\nWork closely with other IT leadership to ensure that Application Strategies and design align with business objectives and conform to best practices.\nEnsure frequent, timely, and accurate communication between team members and business users.\nIdentify enhancements to improve the supportability, operability, or performance of applications (and develop supporting business cases for suggested enhancements)\nCollect, analyze, and report SLA and KPI data (and take corrective actions as warranted) to drive application stability and usability\nManage established budgets and forecasts\nWork with business partners to ensure appropriate prioritization for scheduled maintenance, including coordination of priorities across applications when required\nManage the release calendar for all activity (code fixes and work orders)\nParticipate in on-call responsibilities 24x7x365 as needed, managing team rotation schedules\nFurther DevOps and Agile methodologies within your application portfolio, working with infrastructure and development partners alike\nIdentify, sponsor, and implement continuous improvement initiatives within the application development and support team\nDemonstrated ability and experience working in a matrix environment\nDemonstrated successful implementation of SDLC, ensuring minimum required development artifacts are developed and completed by development team members\nAdvanced knowledge of solution development, systems analysis/design, programming techniques, testing, and release management\nCUSTOMER RESOLUTION PLATFORM LEADERSHIP\nServe as the technology owner for the enterprise Customer Issue Resolution and Tracking platform.\nPartner with business stakeholders to define, improve, and optimize customer issue intake, assignment, escalation, investigation, and resolution workflows.\nEnsure the platform supports end-to-end visibility into customer issues, root causes, corrective actions, service levels, and resolution outcomes.\nDrive continuous improvement initiatives through analysis of business processes, user feedback, operational metrics, and platform capabilities.\nCollaborate with business leaders to balance operational needs, technical capabilities, and long-term maintainability.\nPartner with Product Owners and PMO teams to align platform investments with strategic business objectives.\nEnsure adoption of best practices for customer service management, issue tracking, workflow automation, and operational reporting.\n\nREPORTING, ANALYTICS, AND BUSINESS INSIGHTS\nDefine, monitor, and report key operational metrics related to customer issue management.\nDevelop dashboards and reporting solutions that provide visibility into case volumes, aging, SLA compliance, escalation trends, backlog management, and resolution effectiveness.\nPartner with business leaders to identify trends and opportunities for operational improvement.\nSupport executive reporting and KPI tracking through Salesforce Reports, Dashboards, and analytics tools.\nProvide data-driven recommendations that improve customer experience and operational performance.\n\nAPPLICATION DEVELOPMENT\nManage the maintenance and support of existing systems and the implementation of new systems as prioritized by the IT leadership and PMO.\nDefine, develop and implement best practices in design, development, build/deployments, and unit testing; develop metrics to manage performance.\nWork with cross functional teams to develop and track software development project deliverables such as development schedules, status reports, resource plans, issues/risks and mitigation plans; manage resources relating to projects production support activities within an Agile/Scrum methodology.\nLead the assessment and implementation of third-party controls; manage its inventories and implement a common library within the organization.\n\nTECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE\nRequired Experience\nSalesforce Service Cloud\nSalesforce Flow Automation\nSalesforce Reporting and Dashboards\nCase Management Solutions\nKnowledge Management\nOmni-Channel Routing\nExperience Cloud\nDesirable\nSalesforce AI, Agentforce, Einstein AI, and workflow automation capabilities\nHealthcare provider data management\nCustomer service operations and call center technologies\nLow-code/no-code platform development\nIntegration Architecture and APIs\nAzure Service Bus and Azure Integration Services\nAzure DevOps\nAgile and Scrum Delivery Methodologies\nDevOps and Release Management\nEnterprise SaaS Platforms\nApplication Security and Data Governance\nLeads adoption of AI-enabled tools within the team, ensuring effective integration into workflows. Coaches employees on appropriate usage, monitors impact on productivity and quality, and identifies opportunities for process improvement.\nDemonstrates a customer-first mindset by reinforcing expectations of all employees as drivers of customer excellence by actively fostering engagement, clarity, accountability, and support, recognizing that a positive and consistent employee experience directly influences service quality and customer outcomes.\nSUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:\nMentor, train, and supervise team members directly and indirectly, review their work and provide effective constructive feedback to achieve their best performance and goal attainment\nSet the tone for a strong Enterprise culture and high employee engagement.\nEnsure all team members understand, are trained in, and comply with Paradigm’s security requirements and policies.\nEnsure all team members have the minimum level of IT system access required to effectively complete their Paradigm responsibilities.\n\nQUALIFICATIONS:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field required.\nMinimum 8 years of experience supporting, implementing, or managing enterprise business applications.\nMinimum 3 years of experience leading application development, Salesforce, or enterprise platform support teams.\nDemonstrated experience supporting Salesforce applications with a strong emphasis on configuration, process optimization, and platform governance.\nExperience implementing or supporting Salesforce Service Cloud or similar customer service platforms strongly preferred.\nHealthcare industry experience, particularly involving provider data, provider operations, or healthcare workflows, strongly preferred.\nExperience managing packaged software solutions and vendor relationships.\nExperience leading Agile teams and collaborating across matrixed organizations.\nStrong communication, stakeholder management, organizational, and leadership 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