Salesforce Senior Technical Architect – Consumer Goods

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organisations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Job Description

Salesforce Senior Technical Architects are Salesforce platform experts who can take the puzzle-pieces that are a client’s business requirements, and design masterpiece solutions. Creativity in problem solving as well as being an excellent listener are probably the most emphasised facets of a Salesforce Senior Technical Architect.

Your Impact

• Identifying how a client’s architecture fits together and providing strategic and technical advice
• Understanding business and technical requirements and translating these into technical solutions
• Analysing business processes and identifying alternative solutions, assessing feasibility and recommending new approaches typically seeking to exploit new technology components.
• Modelling processes, architecture, data structures and information required to support Publicis Sapient and their clients’ projects
• Leading the review and creation of an information systems strategy
• Developing enterprise-grade architecture and processes which truly utilise and realise the value of salesforce.com application technology
• Ensuring both business strategy and technological direction is aligned
• Taking a collaborative role in developing and enforcing Publicis Sapient set of architecture and development libraries and whitepapers
• Setting standards for programming tools and techniques and advise on their application and compliance
• Supporting project managers in all stages of the software development process
• Assigning work through the correct communication channels to technical consultants and monitor performance providing advice, guidance and assistance

Qualifications

• Extensive experience working as a Salesforce Technical Architect with large size customers including solving Enterprise Architectural challenges 
• Knowledge of the Consumer Goods sector and delivering B2B solutions to sector clients
• Comfortable advising, mentoring, educating and influencing diverse teams on topics including Data Management, Integration, Security, Application Design as they relate to the Salesforce Platform 
• Demonstrable senior stakeholder management skills and experience 
• Proven aptitude to rapidly learn new technologies 
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills 
• Solid presentation and facilitation skills 
• Proven leadership and consulting skills to build trust relationship with customers 
• Ability to lead a range of workshops e.g. Discovery, Solution Design and Delivery 
• Certified Application Architect and/or Certified System Architect 
• Hands-on delivery skills 
• Able to mentor talented individuals as part of a defined career framework 
• Eagerness to co-define and deliver advisory sessions for strategic initiatives 
• Help towards the development of the practice and build reusable frameworks 
• Ability to work independently and as part of a distributed team and a willingness to take ownership of problems 
• Bachelor's degree in a technical or business management field

Set yourself apart with

• Experience and/or certification in Salesforce Consumer Goods Cloud
• Design and development experience with alternative software platforms and programming languages.
• Examples of where you have striven for product stability by balancing the optimal amounts of Salesforce configuration and custom code to solutions
• Examples of re-using custom built frameworks in Salesforce to save time, cost or reduce risk (including creation of Accelerators)

Additional Information

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, colour, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.

Publicis Sapient UK is a disability confident employer and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and accessible work environment. We encourage individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions to apply for this position and we will provide adjustments where possible throughout the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments at any point on the process, please get in touch as soon as possible by emailing [email protected]. Publicis Sapient UK will then work with you explore and implement adjustments as and where these are possible. If you have any questions regarding adjustments, please email us: [email protected]

Publicis Sapient fosters an inclusive environment through our inspirational business resource groups, to learn more please visit https://careers.publicissapient.com/life-at-ps/diversity-inclusion

Benefits

• We have got you and your family covered with 25 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), life assurance, dental insurance, income protection, critical illness cover, private healthcare (pre-existing conditions included) and a pension
• We know the importance of health and wellbeing so offer you extensive retail discount offers and further reimbursement towards activities that contribute to a healthier lifestyle
• Free and delicious coffee served by our very own in-house baristas
• We are proud to actively invest in your learning through various learning platforms 
• We work with you to give back to the local community through CSR efforts