Position: Solution architect
Location: NJ post covid onsite
JD for Architect:
Salesforce Architect with minimum of 10 to 12 years of overall experience out of which 5+ years’ experience in Salesforce development, consulting eco-system.
Job Description:
- Provide design leadership in large or complex development projects involving application development, migrations, integrations, enhancements to existing applications. Participate in meetings with prospect & client technical staff, business owners and subject matter experts.
- Support Sales & Delivery teams on sales opportunities by validating solutions, providing estimations/cost, proposals, responding to RFPs etc.
- Assess and develop high level design requirements for project and communicate in writing or in meetings with development teams. Assess detailed specifications against design requirements.
- Analyze cross-functional business processes, identify alternative solutions, assess feasibility, and recommend new approaches via technology enablement.
- Strategic business acumen and understanding of organization strategy and ability to design information systems to deliver that strategy.
- Certification in Marketing Cloud, Pardot, CPQ products is preferable.
- Experience is Healthcare and/or Financial Services domain a big plus.
- Build technical relationship with delivery teams, prospects or existing customers to support overall prospect/customer engagement.
- Build and run custom demonstrations and deliver Proof of Concepts (POC).
- Develop and author technical business solutions, product presentations, and demonstrations.
- Short travel to client sites for onsite discovery and solutions presentations. Not expected to exceed 20%.
Minimum Qualifications (Mandatory):
- 10+ years relevant experience preferred. 5+ years consulting experience and deep understanding of the SFDC products, platform architecture, customizations, integrations etc.
- Multiple (Platform Developer 1/Dev 401, Sales & Service Cloud) SFDC certifications preferred.
- Has served as solution architect for multiple enterprise application implementations including complex integrations.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to explain technical concepts to lay audiences. Some experience of working with senior/C-level/board level stakeholders.
- Ability to grasp new business process and apply Salesforce platform technology to develop Software Solutions (out of the box and on platform developed solutions).
- Strong leadership, relationship building, and negotiating skills.
- Outstanding written, verbal, and interpersonal skills
- Effective presentation skills and diplomacy required to interface with and influence cross-functional leaders.
- Ability to operate in a complex environment of multiple projects and stakeholders and to participate in several projects simultaneously.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems Technology, Computer Science, or related program is preferred.
- Good understanding and knowledge of enterprise applications & technologies – ERP, CRM, ECM, CPQ, Billing, Marketing automation tools, e-Commerce platforms
- Good understanding and knowledge in web-based systems architecture, SOA, enterprise application architecture