Solution Architect

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.
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 enterprise customer engagements, partnering with key stakeholders to achieve the vision while completing key work.
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 ROI.
They are strong presenters and facilitators that are able to co-create the vision and lead the execution with the customer and obtain 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 analyzing issues and obstacles to resolve root cause, and can identify appropriate corrective action.
They connect with technical and business stakeholders from all levels through C-suite.
On a day to day basis, they interact with customer product owners, business process owners and technical resources to understand requirements, analyze information, and craft comprehensive solutions.
They also show a strong understanding of typical business challenges or common objectives faced by customers within the industry.
They are also stewards of the Professional Services Methodology and use their networks to ensure that best practices are followed.
They engage with Customer Success and Product teams to ensure the solutions are driving the most effective achievement of the value objectives.
Solution Architects contribute to thought leadership and best practices by engaging with the cloud-specific practices teams.
They will contribute both internally in their Community and externally in the marketplace.
**Your Impact**
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the client
- Identify and lead internal critical 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 new 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 handle risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution
- Manage customer expectations; find solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party partners
- Review and accurate 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
**Minimum Requirements**
- Proven experience in enterprise-level projects using both waterfall and agile software development methodologies throughout the whole life cycle 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 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
- Possible travel of about 25%, but exact travel requirements will vary based on customer.
**Preferred Requirements**
- Shown results in delivering high value business outcomes using a