Principal Solution Analyst

What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50 year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

The Principal Solution Analyst will play a pivotal role on the Marketing Technology Platform team to ensure platform capabilities address business requirements and achieve the desired functional outcomes.  This role will work with key technology and product stakeholders to understand platform requirements, work with agile development teams to enable new platform functionality and work directly with teams to ensure adoption. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with a robust background in digital technologies and a proven track record of being a continuous learner and working on high-performing team.

Specialized Skills and Technologies

• Experience in key business priority enablement through technology delivery and support 
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively - both verbally and in writing
• Experience working with engineering teams to build software, preferably in B2B or B2C SaaS
• Continuous Learner – demonstrated experience learning new tools, technologies, industries, etc. to support delivery and execution.

Primary Responsibilities

Scope and Impact

• Lead and manage multiple platform initiatives simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with strategic objectives
• Manage prioritized backlog with requirements organized into Epics, features and stories. Lead key sprint ceremonies to continuously groom, prioritize and plan sprints.
• Elicit and document key requirements with corresponding acceptance criteria, user personas, NFRs, process flows, etc. to effectively communicate requirements
• Collaborate cross-functionally with a variety of key stakeholders such as product & platform leaders, architecture, security, end users and other relevant groups to ensure understanding of key functional and technical requirements and ensure integrated delivery 
• Work directly with platform development teams, which includes a combination of onshore, near-shore and off-shore resources
• Create technical and end user platform documentation. Work directly with product teams on adoption of platform capabilities

Strategic Contribution

• Contribute to the development of the MarTech Platform Roadmap and identify opportunities to maximize platform value against digital and technology objectives
• Drive technology innovation that supports the company's strategic goals and positions the company as a leader in the industry.
• Build strong partnerships with other departments to align digital initiatives with broader business strategies, ensuring cohesive progress towards the company's long-term goals
• Provide expert analysis and recommendations on solution approach and platform capabilities to support organization objectives

Leadership

• Mentor and guide other business analysts on the platform team, fostering a culture of excellence, learning and continuous improvement
• Develop trust with key stakeholders on platform, engineering and product teams through commitment, openness, delivery and execution
• Facilitate a collaborate team environment, encouraging open communication and knowledge sharing
   

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in key business priority enablement through technology delivery and support
• Experience working directly with development teams to build software
• Demonstrated ability to understand and elicit requirements for complex initiatives
• Experience working in SDLC models such as Agile
• Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Data Management, BI, Premed)

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.