at Salesforce in Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Job CategoryCustomer Success
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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.
The Professional Services organization is focused on delivering Salesforce's world-class product and project offerings to ensure customers are getting the most out of the Salesforce Platform.We help customers accelerate their path to value with Salesforce, focused on making sure you're set up for long-term success to tap into the full capacity of the Salesforce platform, fast. We help you plan your strategic roadmap and we make sure you are building Salesforce so that it's easy to maintain and adapt down the road, minimizing potential technical debt.
Our team is made up of thousands of the world's leading Salesforce experts. We share our own 20 years of product best practices with your team and partners so that you have everything you need to achieve your goals.
TPM Technical Architect Director Role
Salesforce Professional Services is looking for a Technical Architect Director. You will be serving as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform expert to the company's largest, most complex enterprise customers. Here are some salient responsibilities the role entails:
Serve as a trusted advisor to the client
Identify and lead internal strategic initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serving 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
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
Work closely with Delivery Managers, Solution Architects, and directly with clients to architect technology solutions to meet client needs
Contribute to a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies on enabling technologies including the Salesforce Platform
Minimum Requirements:
10+ years enterprise architecture or consulting experience
2+ years of experience architecting and implementing Trade Promotion Management capabilities for customers
5+ years of experience leading Salesforce Core Projects
3+ years of experience in Consumer Goods industry
Strong application design skills combined with strong data, integration, and security architecture skills
Strong presentation skills. Able to effectively present and defend a point of view to a variety of audiences
Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience
A great listener with the ability to communicate with people in diverse roles
Proven ability to analyze, design, and optimize business processes via technology and integration
Resourceful and innovative thinker who can work through and solve problems
Strong experience in Integration concepts, designs and patterns
Required Qualities:
TRUST: Trusts the company's core values; shows integrity, transparency, and... For full info follow application link.
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