Salesforce Solutions Architect

• Lead discovery workshops, which includes the facilitation of large audiences, solution presentations, and prototype demonstrations.
• Comfortable building and demonstrating Salesforce CPQ prototypes in Salesforce.
• Participate in the development of conceptual and logical architecture
• Design, develop and maintain application architectures that support client’s business requirements
• Resolve integration and interfacing issues between various back-end systems
• Optimize application performance and scalability
• Assist Project Leadership conducting project risk identification and mitigation planning
• Provide support to the sales effort on new business development pursuits, assisting with RFP responses, architecture assessments and technical qualification
• Act as an owner and ultimate escalation point for the implementations one builds and supports

• 3+ years Salesforce Platform implementation experience, with at least 2 full lifecycle Salesforce CPQ implementations
• Strong understanding of the overall architecture of the Salesforce CRM platform concepts and how they influence design
• Experience in configuring any other recurring SaaS solutions would make a candidate stand out
• Strong leadership skills, including the ability to facilitate team and client meetings effectively and to deliver constructive feedback
• Adept in execution of Agile methodologies, and overall use of Jira
• Outstanding organizational, analytical, communication and writing skills
• Adept at communicating with internal and external stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Experience with managing remote teams across different time zones
• Superior abilities in problem-solving, project management, and attention to details

Education:

• A Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Computer Science OR Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Active Salesforce CPQ Specialist Superbadges Ideal
• Active B2B Commerce Functional, Sales Cloud Consultant, and Data Architecture & Management Designer would make a candidate stand out.

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