24 Oct
Publicis Sapient
London
Job description
Job Description
Salesforce Senior Technical Architects are Salesforce platform experts who can take the puzzle-pieces that are a client’s business requirements, and design masterpiece solutions.
Creativity in problem solving as well as being an excellent listener are probably the most emphasised facets of a Salesforce Senior Technical Architect.
Your Impact
- Identifying how a client’s architecture fits together and providing strategic and technical advice
- Understanding business and technical requirements and translating these into technical solutions
- Analysing business processes and identifying alternative solutions,
assessing feasibility and recommending new approaches typically seeking to exploit new technology components.
- Modelling processes, architecture, data structures and information required to support Publicis Sapient and their clients’ projects
- Leading the review and creation of an information systems strategy
- Developing enterprise-grade architecture and processes which truly utilise and realise the value of salesforce.com application technology
- Ensuring both business strategy and technological direction is aligned
- Taking a collaborative role in developing and enforcing Publicis Sapient set of architecture and development libraries and whitepapers
- Setting standards for programming tools and techniques and advise on their application and compliance
- Supporting project managers in all stages of the software development process
- Assigning work through the correct communication channels to technical consultants and monitor performance providing advice, guidance and assistance
Qualifications
- Extensive experience working as a Salesforce Technical Architect with large size customers including solving Enterprise Architectural challenges
- Comfortable advising, mentoring, educating and influencing diverse teams on topics including Data Management, Integration, Security, Application Design as they relate to the Salesforce Platform
- Demonstrable senior stakeholder management skills and experience
- Proven aptitude to rapidly learn new technologies
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
- Solid presentation and facilitation skills
- Proven leadership and consulting skills to build trust relationship with customers
- Ability to lead a range of workshops e.g. Discovery, Solution Design and Delivery
- Certified Application Architect and / or Certified System Architect
- Hands-on delivery skills
- Able to mentor talented individuals as part of a defined career framework
- Eagerness to co-define and deliver advisory sessions for strategic initiatives
- Help towards the development of the practice and build reusable frameworks
- Ability to work independently and as part of a distributed team and a willingness to take ownership of problems
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or business management field
Set yourself apart with
- Experience with Salesforce Commerce Cloud and delivering B2B solutions
- Design and development experience with alternative software platforms and programming languages.
- Examples of where you have striven for product stability by balancing the optimal amounts of Salesforce configuration and custom code to solutions
- Examples of re-using custom built frameworks in Salesforce to save time, cost or reduce risk (including creation of Accelerators)