Senior Solution Consultant

Job Category

Customer Success

Job Details

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good - you’ve come to the right place.

The Solution Architect leads one or more workstreams in complex enterprise customer engagements, partnering with key collaborators to drive and achieve the vision while completing key deliverables. They serve as hands-on advisors, using strong interpersonal skills, solution and/or technical knowledge, Salesforce product knowledge, industry experience, consulting experience, and knowledge of their client’s business to deliver customer return on investment.

Solution Architects are strong presenters and facilitators that are able to co-create the vision and lead the execution with the customer as well as acquire customer acceptance of the delivered solution. They are capable of driving difficult conversations and removing roadblocks to implement the business strategies. They are proficient at analysing issues and obstacles to settle root cause, and can identify appropriate corrective action. They communicate with technical and business team members from all levels through C-suite. On a day to day basis, they interact with customer product owner, business process owner and technical resources to understand requirements, analyse information, and craft comprehensive solutions. They also show a strong understanding of typical business challenges or common objectives faced by customers within the industry.

Your Impact

Salesforce Professional Services is looking for a Solution Architect. As a Solution Architect, you will be serving as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform guide to the company’s largest, most sophisticated enterprise customers. Here are some salient responsibilities the role entails
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the client

Work collaboratively and having very strong communications skills, especially in teaching sophisticated concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking across various levels of a client organisation

Identify and proactively run risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution

Lead customer expectations; negotiate solutions to sophisticated problems with both the customer and third-party partners

Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artefacts 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

Minimum Requirements

Experience in enterprise-level projects using both waterfall and agile software development methodologies throughout the whole life cycle with repeated and shown success

Extensive experience with configuration and customization on the Salesforce platform

Authority 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 detailing 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 optimally present a point of view and clearly articulate the rationale to a variety of team members

Detailed 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 standout colleague 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 entrepreneurial thinker who can work through and solve problems

Possible travel of about 50%, but exact travel requirements will vary based on customer

Degree or equivalent proven experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the strengths you'll need for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

Preferred Requirements

Validated results in delivering high value business outcomes using an agile appro