Systems Engineer - SaaS Applications
Salesforce is hiring a Systems Engineer - SaaS Applications in Hyderabad, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
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Administer SaaS finance applications while leading agentic workflow transformations and process automation initiatives.
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About the Role
We are seeking an agile, high-performing Systems Engineer to administer and manage the Finance systems and applications supporting our mission-critical business processes. In this role, you will serve as the primary process expert in your service area, collaborating closely with developers, business stakeholders, and cross-functional technology teams to support end-to-end Salesforce business processes.
Your daily impact will span enterprise application support, resolving complex technical and functional system issues, performing trend analysis to identify proactive enhancements that reduce support volume, and partnering with development teams to deliver new and enhanced functionality.
Key Responsibilities
SaaS Applications Administration- Platform Operations: Own the day-to-day administration, configuration, and optimization of key enterprise SaaS applications (Blackline, Workiva, Kyriba, Coupa, or Concur).
- Security & Access Control: Manage users, roles, profiles, and security settings across systems.
- Platform Health: Maintain data quality, integrity, and overall platform health.
- Vendor Releases: Manage vendor releases, upgrades, and new capabilities.
- Agentic Transformation: Demonstrate experience through AI/agentic workflow transformation, including redesigning processes to incorporate AI agents alongside human support engineers.
- Process Automation: Identify opportunities to automate manual business processes and improve operational efficiency.
- Automation Operations: Monitor existing automations and troubleshoot failures or performance issues.
- Data Quality Initiatives: Support data migrations, imports, exports, cleansing, deduplication, and data quality initiatives.
- Enterprise Integrations: Work with integration teams to support Salesforce integrations with ERP, marketing, middleware, and other enterprise applications.
- Technical Troubleshooting: Understand APIs and integration concepts sufficiently to troubleshoot and coordinate integration issues.
- Tier 2/3 Support: Provide Level 2/3 support for Salesforce issues.
- Problem Resolution: Analyze and resolve complex configuration, automation, data, security, and integration issues.
- Root-Cause Analysis: Perform root-cause analysis and implement preventive solutions rather than relying on workarounds.
- Environment Management: Manage sandbox environments, testing, UAT, deployments, and production releases.
- Cross-Team Alignment: Coordinate with developers, QA, integration teams, and business stakeholders for major changes.
- Documentation: Maintain appropriate documentation for configurations and business processes.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills
- Experience: 6+ years of experience with expertise in configuration and application maintenance.
- Domain Knowledge: Understanding of Record to Report and Procure to Pay process areas.
- SaaS Expertise: In-depth knowledge in one of the SaaS applications (Blackline, Workiva, Kyriba, Coupa, or Concur).
- Continuous Learning: Demonstrates a willingness to learn and expand expertise across other Financial SaaS applications and functional areas.
- Problem Solving & Mindset: Able to think independently and consider cross-functional and downstream impact; agile and capable of multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
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How we rate this
Systems Engineer - SaaS Applications at Salesforce rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Tell me about a workflow you automated with AI tools, end to end.
- Tell me about a project where saas administration was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where process automation was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where agentic workflows was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: AI agents, AI Automation, Saas Administration, Process Automation, and Agentic Workflows. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Put the AI tool in a bullet point about what you did, not just in a skills list. This role treats it as a required part of the job.
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