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
• Knowledge of the Consumer Goods sector and delivering B2B solutions to sector clients
• 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 eg 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 and/or certification in Salesforce Consumer Goods Cloud
• 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)