Technical Architect

Job Description Technical Architect As our Technical Architect, you will be enrolled in any duties as understanding, detailing, and implementing all customer requirements according to scope. You will actively collaborate with customer SMEs to build the best technical solution for integrating Zendesk into customer workflows and processes, ask questions to dig into the customer’s use case to collect and assemble the business problem to solve, and craft their Zendesk instance for the customer to be successful. Seek to understand our current & prospective customers’ needs and lead technically oriented customer conversations. Work collaboratively with Consultant, Support and Account Management teams to position, present and validate implementation solutions to our actual & prospective customers’. Communicate highly technical concepts to a variety of audiences, including executive-level technical decision-makers. Provide feedback and prototype ideas from the field to influence product development. Design, POC and present technical solutions for customer use cases. Suggest validated workarounds to fill product gaps. Lead highly technical discussions on a broad variety of technologies. Requirements: Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience) and 1-2 years of experience delivering consulting services and/or programming experience with languages like Ruby, Python, Java, C#, or JavaScript. Excellent analytical skills, including the ability to meet a business requirement with a technical solution. Strong solution scoping abilities, using our existing solution and influencing new product development. Experience with RESTful APIs, and experience developing applications on the backend (servers and databases) as well as the client side (Android, Web, iOS, etc). Experience developing, selling, or supporting SaaS applications; High energy, passion and positivity - you are someone who sincerely enjoy presenting to and interacting with customers. Experience in a broad variety of technical concepts (web development, web sockets, mobile development, backend development, automation…) Strong communication skills. English proficiency is required. Additional languages are a plus. Nice to Have: Experience in global teams. Familiarity with a backend programming language (Ruby, Python, C#, etc.). Hands-on experience with Zendesk products, implementations, configuration, Apps Framework, and SSO. Zendesk Administrator Certification. Zendesk App Developer 1 Certification. The US annualized base salary range for this position is $96,000.00-$144,000.00. This position may also be eligible for bonus, benefits, or related incentives. While this range reflects the minimum and maximum value for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations, the offer for the successful candidate for this position will be based on job related capabilities, applicable experience, and other factors such as work location. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only (or OTE for commissions based roles), and do not include bonus, benefits, or related incentives. Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager. The intelligent heart of customer experience Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love. Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn ... (truncated, view full listing at source)