Solution Architect - Consumer Goods Industry

Consumer Goods Solution Architect

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Job Category

Customer Success

Job Details

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Salesforce Industries’ goal is to deliver rapid, value-driven customer solutions for complex business problems. Our Industry Solution Architects play a key role in determining the optimal use of the Industry Cloud products in the customer environment.

The Solution Architect will support the full implementation lifecycle, from scoping to deployment in an evolving ecosystem consisting of clients and partners. The Solution Architect will be responsible for understanding the customer’s business requirements, and designing the Salesforce Industry-specific Financial Services industry solutions.

As a Solution Architect, you will become a deep product expert with Industry Comnsumer Goods Cloud applications, and work closely with our sales and delivery teams to ensure customer success.

Responsibilities:

• Lead functional workshops. Demonstrate leadership skills in solution designing, delivering, testing, and deploying.
• Expertise in User Journey preparations, User Story reviews, Data Modeling, Apex Design Patterns, LWC, and other modern UI techniques.
• Lead the architecture and design of complex Salesforce projects for clients within the Financial Services industry
• Advise customers on the overall enterprise architecture, where Salesforce fits in and assist in developing overall architectural strategy
• Conduct in-depth analysis of requirements and assess the feasibility of various solutions
• Develop roadmaps and provide strategic guidance to clients to ensure alignment between business objectives and solutions
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the client driving conversations with their Enterprise Architects and business stakeholders that shape the architectural vision, and establish a program architectural roadmap
• Manage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party stakeholders
• Establish trust with the customer’s leadership, promoting and/or implementing best practices with SFI and Salesforce
• Build out sophisticated business processes using native Salesforce Industries technology and the toolkit of the Force.com platform and integration tools.
• Anticipate, identify, highlight architectural risks associated with projects to Salesforce and the customer. Manage risk areas in the solution in a proactive manner, and commit to seeing an issue through to completion
• Provide architectural guidance and support to project teams, including developers, administrators, and partners

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant consulting experience in professional services, designing technology solutions.
• 8+ years of experience in handling client-facing projects in positions of increasing responsibility in the context of systems development and related business consulting
• 8+ years of experience with CG Cloud and cloud based technologies (not limited to Salesforce platform but ideally CG Cloud)
• 8+ years of experience with data architecture
• 8+ years in System to System integration, distributed architectures, event driven architecture using common ESB platforms like Mulesoft
• 5+ years of experience with the Financial Services industry
• Expertise in one or multiple domains of → Banking (retail, commercial, investment, mortgage lending and servicing), Insurance, Wealth & Asset Management
• Integration Architecture (Must have)
• Platform Security (Must have)
• Identity and Access Management / Integration Security
• Sharing and Visibility (Must have)
• Data Architecture and Management (Must have)
• Architectural Design Patterns
• Apex Design Patterns (Good to have)
• Salesforce/Apex, Triggers, Lightning Flows, Lightning, LWC, and experience with modern web and mobile technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web Components, others) (Good to have)
• Salesforce Certification Preferred (Admin, Developer, Sales, and Service Clouds, Application Architect)
• OmniStudio Consultant (Good to have)

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Experience Level

Senior Level