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Salesforce Architect

Salesforce Architect

Solution Partners, Inc.TX, United States
3 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Permanent
  • Temporary
Job description
  • 12-month contract or Fulltime Direct hire
  • Local to Houston preferred (on-site may be required a few days per month)
  • Additional travel to Chicago may be required (occasional)
  • We are looking for a dynamic Salesforce Architect to join our team.

    • Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the company's business processes and how Salesforce can support them in delivering business value faster.
    • Develop strong client relationships by building trust, rapport and positive working relationships with key sponsors, stakeholders, and team members.
    • Lead requirement gathering workshops, business process design and sessions around long term roadmap planning, business value articulation etc.
    • Lead architectural discussions and influence key decision-makers on the best practices for Salesforce integration with other systems and platforms
    • Work with internal and customer stakeholders to create prototypes, proof of concepts and wireframes to define and articulate business requirements
    • Deliver design blue prints, detailed solution design and help the development team build the solution in alignment with the business requirements
    • Validate solution components, lead customer walkthroughs / demos and provide guidance to the project manager for key issues / risks to the project
    • Manage discussions with various levels of customer’s business stakeholders highlighting trade-offs among multiple solution approaches
    • Identify and help build services offerings to support rapid time to value for Salesforce implementations
    • Where required, support deep-dive pre-sales activity to position successful delivery of customer solutions
    • Maintain a target billable utilization aligned to the role
    • Stay current with Salesforce developments and trends, applying best practices to enhance solutions.
    • Ensure all Salesforce implementations comply with organizational standards, security protocols, and data privacy regulations.
    • Requirements

    • 12+ years CRM experience with a minimum of 7 years in Salesforce architecture and solution design.
    • Proven experience with large-scale Salesforce implementations, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and other Salesforce products.
    • Expert level understanding of the Salesforce product suite, including any two of the following : Sales, Service, Experience and Marketing Clouds
    • Expertise in evaluating various Salesforce components and technologies, performing a proof of concept in each, and defining the recommended solution.
    • Experience working with internal IT partners and business stakeholders, develop and maintain enterprise application architecture strategies, designs and roadmaps.
    • Experience in leading workshops to define and prioritize client requirements and required Capabilities. Ability to ask difficult / courageous questions during workshops and suggest best practices and efficient ways of implementing business processes
    • Proven ability to design and optimize business processes and to integrate business processes across disparate systems.
    • Ability to demonstrate concepts visually and in writing as the situation demands to guide stakeholders in thinking through all aspects of the ask
    • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
    • Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies.
    • Strong knowledge and hands on experience in integration, Lightning, LWC and other clouds like SFMC and Service Cloud.
    • Experience in Agile methodologies, JIRA and deployment tools.
    • Preferred with Salesforce certifications / domain badges (Declarative App Designer and / or Sharing & Visibility)
    • Desired Certifications / Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business or a related field
    • SFDC Application Architect / System Architect / Integration Architect
    • Platform Developer I and II
    • Salesforce Sales / Service Cloud Consultant
    • Declarative App Designer Domain Badge
    • Sharing & Visibility Domain Badge
    • Certified Scrum Master / Certified Product Owner