Solution Architect

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Solution Architect leading enterprise-level customer engagements at Salesforce. Collaborating with stakeholders and delivering comprehensive solutions using Salesforce products.

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to the client
  • Identify and lead internal strategic initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serve as an active contributor to the community’s overall knowledge base and expertise
  • Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value
  • Work collaboratively and having very strong communications skills, especially in teaching complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking across various levels of a client organization
  • Identify and proactively manage risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution
  • Manage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party partners
  • Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forward
  • Drive a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies to enable technologies including the Salesforce platform

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of relevant experience in enterprise-level projects using both waterfall and agile software development methodologies throughout the whole life cycle (from planning to go-live) with repeated and demonstrable success
  • Extensive experience with configuration and customization on the Salesforce platform
  • Expert level experience defining the system architecture landscape, identifying gaps between current and desired end-states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will enable achievement of the desired business outcomes
  • Experience leading discovery sessions, defining business requirements, writing user stories and providing detailed system and functional designs
  • Experience in documenting business processes and wire-framing system designs using process flow diagram tools, UML, sequence diagrams, etc. as well as making recommendations for future state improved processes and system designs
  • Strong presentation skills; able to effectively present a point of view and clearly articulate the rationale to a variety of stakeholders
  • Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal; able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience
  • Must be a team player as demonstrated through a customer qualification of a large scale/enterprise implementation with multiple work streams
  • A great listener with the ability to communicate with people in diverse roles
  • Resourceful and innovative thinker who can work through and solve problems
  • Possible travel of about 25%, but exact travel requirements will vary based on customer.
  • Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following industries: MAE/CBS (Manufacturing, Automotive, Energy / Consumer Business Services - Utilities) FINS (Financial Services including Insurance) HLS (Healthcare and Life Sciences) RCG (Retail Consumer Goods) PubSec (Public Sector, Non-profit, and Education)

Benefits:

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development opportunities