
Functional Analyst, Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC)
Sysco, HOUSTON, Texas, United States, 77001
Salary: unknown
This is a hybrid position requiring an on-site presence 3 to 4 days per week. Please note that the number of days on-site can increase based on business needs
Summary:
The Functional Analyst, Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) collaborates with Product Owner/Platform Owner and team to deliver user stories focused on configuring package software or performing other highly technical tasks in a timely manner and as per set quality standards.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborates effectively with the agile team to configure package software when applicable
Supports the team in executing highly technical tasks according to the specific needs of stories during each iteration - Ensures design and development standards are being followed to minimize rework; promotes only quality-tested code and does it regularly
- Participates in the daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to update progress, highlight and resolve impediments
- Completes required documentation to communicate required information to deployment, maintenance, service, and business teams
- Provides production support and helps drive down technical debt
- Develops customer relationships by listening and understanding the customer, anticipating, and providing solutions to customer needs, and prioritizing customer satisfaction
- Develop documentation and provide training to users as appropriate
- Define potential improvement changes to resolve errors, prevent the recurrence of problems or improve system maintainability and stability
- Provide functional analysis for the domain/software related to Mergers & Acquisitions
- Provide functional analysis for domain/software RFP process
- Provide SME around product(s) function and works with Product Owner and Business Partners to refine requirements/functionality
Education
- Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent
Mandatory Experience:
- 2-4 years of experience in configuration, coding and application development
- Basic understanding of Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban and other agile development techniques
- Basic knowledge of continuous integration / continuous delivery practices
Competencies:
- Demonstrated “agile-development” mindset with strong customer-focus & results-orientation
- Effective interpersonal, teamwork and collaboration skills
- Strong analytical and business problem solving skills
- Strong communication and documentation skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud certifications (Administrator, Consultant, or Email Specialist)
- Experience with:
- MobileConnect / MobilePush
- AMPscript (functional understanding)
- SQL (basic to intermediate)
- Familiarity with Salesforce CRM, CDPs, or customer data platforms
- Experience working in Agile or hybrid delivery environments
- Financial services, healthcare, retail, or B2B marketing experience (if applicable)
Key Skills & Competencies
- Functional analysis & requirements documentation
- Marketing operations & campaign execution
- Data‑driven thinking
- Cross‑functional collaboration
- Attention to detail and quality
- Problem‑solving and continuous improvement