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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.
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.
Department Description
Salesforce Professional Services focuses on delivering strategic engagements that define transformational opportunities and articulate clear plans for the execution of change programs. We rely on our team's expertise and specialisms to engage with executive-level customers to agree on specific business goals and actions to ignite the full value of Salesforce.
Our approach considers people, process, and technology - and a successful engagement includes recommendations to the business for change to support deeper, more relevant use of the Salesforce platform.
Role Description
Our team collaborates with our Customers and Partners during the project cycle to share their extensive knowledge of the Salesforce.com platform and product suite. Combined with their experience in technical architecture, enterprise integration, and business solution implementation, they directly drive toward the best possible solutions. They paint a solution vision, architect the system, and guide the implementation. Based on seniority they are involved in the building of solutions (configuration and coding) and/or leading diverse teams of resources in delivery or strategic aspects:
Technical Architects serve as strategic advisors and Salesforce product and platform guides to the company's largest enterprise customers. They are typically engaging at the C-level and driving conversations with our customers' enterprise architects and business collaborators equipped with standard methodologies for enterprise architecture functions such as security, performance, development process, and application governance.
Your Impact
Through our extended onboarding program of formal certification, internal training, knowledge transfer, hands-on experience and closely working with other Technical Architects you will become a Salesforce Domain Authority at the forefront of our Architecture offerings, delivering outstanding customer success.
To be successful in the role you:
Ensure scalable and standard methodology solutions to meet and exceed customer needsGuide the evaluation of business and technical requirementsBuild relationships with key collaborators and team membersAct as lead architect for the overall engagement by coordinating and aligning the work of multiple architects on the teamAlign with project and engagement managers to support planning and implementation in close collaboration with the customerReview and guide project vision and direction, implementation approach, and key artifactsDirect early solution evaluation, including proactive management of issues and effective engagement with executives, the account team, engineering, and product managementWhere required, hands-on application configuration to meet customer needsDirect and mentor diverse teams, such as customers, partners, and colleagues in technical delivery aspects, as well as non-technical topics such as communication strategies or executive influenceFuel our internal growth by identifying, leading, or contributing to internal pivotal initiatives, such as innovations, building up a strategic brand, and nurturing teammates' skills by sharing knowledge.Where required, support pre-sales activities to position Salesforce ServicesContribute to broader goals by becoming a citizen philanthropist and give back to our communities by joining or leading volunteering activities
Preferred Requirements
A detailed understanding of Web Services, Data Modeling, and Enterprise application integration concepts, including experience with enterprise integration tools (ESBs and/or ETL tools), and common integration design patterns with enterprise systems (e.g. CMS, ERP, HRIS, DWH/DM)Ability to build and maintain key relationships with C-level / mid-level and key decision-makersExperience as an Architect and/or CTO in a mid to large-sized organization with leadership driving an organizational transformation in a matrixed organizationExperience in defining and delivering enterprise applications on the Salesforce Platform including coded solutionsPrior experience in one or more of the following salesforce clouds would be advantageousSalesforce Consumer Goods Cloud ( Retail Execution / Trade Promotion Management ) is mustSalesforce Revenue Cloud ( CPQ & Billing )Salesforce Loyalty Cloud Good to have a Salesforce Certified Professional in Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Admin, App Builder & PD1
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