Salesforce Senior Technical Architect

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

Design and development experience with alternative software platforms and programming languages.
Examples of where you have striven for product stability by balancing the optimal amountsof 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)