Senior Technical Architect

Job Category

Customer Success

Job Details

**About Salesforce**

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**Job Title: Senior Technical Architect**

Location: Germany, office flex

**DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION**:
Salesforce Professional Services focuses on delivering strategic engagements that define transformational opportunities and articulate clear plans for execution of change programs. We rely on our team’s expertise and specialisms to engage with executive-level customers to agree on specific business goals and actions to ignite the full value of Salesforce. Our approach considers people, process, and technology — and a successful engagement includes recommendations to the business for change to support deeper, more relevant use of the Salesforce platform.

**OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE**

Salesforce is currently seeking multiple Technical Architects to join our Professional Services team within the Customer Success Group (CSG). The Technical Architect serves as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform expert to the company’s largest, most complex enterprise customers.

Technical Architects are highly effective interacting across technical and business resources from the developer level through mid-management and above and are therefore a trusted advisor for business and technology collaborators. Finally, with experience in software delivery cycles based on agile methodologies the architect supports and is in close alignment with project management activities.

**YOUR IMPACT**
- Lead Telco and Media customers on their business and technical challenges ensuring balanced, scalable, standard methodologies and technical solutions that meet and exceed customer needs while building sustainable relationships with them and team members.
- Guide the evaluation of business and technical requirements.
- Build relationships with key collaborators and team members.
- Act as lead architect for the overall engagement by coordinating and aligning work of multiple architects on the team.
- Align with project and engagement managers to support planning and implementation in close collaboration with the customer.
- Review and guide project vision and direction, implementation approach and key artefacts.
- Direct early solution evaluation, including proactive management of issues and effective engagement with executives, the account team, engineering, and product management.
- Direct and mentor diverse teams, such as customers, partners, and colleagues in technical delivery aspects, as well as non-technical topics such as communication strategies or executive influence.
- Fuel our internal growth by identifying, leading or contributing to internal pivotal initiatives, such as innovations, building up a strategic brand, and nurture teammates' skills by sharing knowledge.
- Where required, support pre-sales activities to position Salesforce Services.
- Contribute to broader goals by becoming a citizen philanthropist and give back to our communities by joining or leading volunteering activities.

**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS**
- Experience with the Salesforce and Industries Platform shown by projects and certifications.
- Prior experience in Telecommunications and Media Industries.
- Deep understanding of Industry specific concepts such as Product Catalogs, CPQ, Order Management and/or Contract Lifecycle Management.
- Design scalable, maintainable, secure system architecture choosing appropriate technologies, platforms and frameworks. Create high level technical documentation.
- Lead and guide technical development teams through architecture implementation. Ensure adherence to architecture best practices and coding standards. Review code and technical mentorship
- Experience with Agile methodologies and frameworks (such as SAFE) and design background.
- Ability to analyze, design, and optimize business processes via technology and integration.
- Experience in guiding customers and project members in rationalising and deploying emerging technology for business use cases.
- Work independently and as part of a distributed team and a willingness to take ownership of problems.
- Rapidly learn new technologies as well as strong presentation, communication and facilitation skills.
- Available to travel regionally and occasionally internationally depending on customer needs.
- Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).
- Proficiency in E