Solution Architect

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Customer Success Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. The Solution Architect leads one or more workstreams in complex enterprise customer engagements, partnering with key stakeholders to achieve the vision while executing on key deliverables. They serve as hands-on advisors, using strong interpersonal skills, solution and/or technical knowledge, Salesforce product knowledge, industry experience, consulting experience, and knowledge of their client’s business to deliver customer ROI. Solution Architects are strong presenters and facilitators that are able to co-create the vision and lead the execution with the customer and obtain customer acceptance of the delivered solution. They are capable of driving difficult conversations and removing roadblocks to execute the business strategies. They are proficient at analyzing issues and obstacles to determine root cause, and can identify appropriate corrective action. They communicate with technical and business stakeholders from all levels through C-suite. On a day to day basis, they interact with customer product owners, business process owners and technical resources to understand requirements, analyze information, and design comprehensive solutions. They also show a strong understanding of typical business challenges or common objectives faced by customers within the industry. Solution Architects are stewards of the Professional Services Methodology and use their networks to ensure that best practices are followed. They engage with Customer Success and Product teams to ensure the solutions are driving the most effective achievement of the value objectives. Solution Architects contribute to thought leadership and best practices by engaging with the cloud-specific practices teams. They will contribute both internally in their Community and externally in the marketplace. Key Responsibilities Serve as a trusted advisor to the client Identify and lead internal strategic initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serve as an active contributor to the community’s overall knowledge base and expertise Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value Work collaboratively and having very strong communications skills, especially in teaching complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking across various levels of a client organization Identify and proactively manage risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution Manage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party partners Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forward Drive a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies to enable technologies including the Salesforce platform Minimum Requirements 5 years of relevant experience in enterprise-level projects using both waterfall and agile software development methodologies throughout the whole life cycle (from planning to go-live) with repeated and demonstrable success Extensive experience with configuration and customization on the ... (truncated, view full listing at source)