Salesforce Solution Architect

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Salesforce

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

We believe that challenges are best solved together. That’s why, when you join us, you become part of a diverse and global community of problem-solvers. You'll find an unexpected mix of people who bring their unique expertise to build trust in society and tackle important issues. Here, we welcome and encourage you to lead with value and inspiration, question and challenge assumptions, as well as embrace new opportunities to deliver quality outcomes in exciting and unexpected ways, all with the support of technology.

At PwC South East Asia Consulting, we help businesses to work smarter and grow faster. We partner with our clients to build effective organisations, innovate and grow, reduce costs, manage risk and regulation and leverage talent. Our aim is to support businesses in designing, managing and executing lasting beneficial change.

PwC’s South East Asia Consulting practice provides a comprehensive range of professional services and experience to deliver large scale, cross territory transformation projects, wherever our clients need us to be – from strategy through to execution.

About The Role

The Salesforce Solution Architecture leads the project team to advise, innovate and transform the IT Landscape of the client. He/She takes overall accountability for solutioning and delivery of one or more Salesforce projects and programs at a client. Responsible for supporting the end-to-end sales cycle including the origination of opportunities, development of proposals, and client presentations.

Responsibilities:

1. Build and sustain trusted advisor relationship with clients, drive proposals and shape clients' business and IT agenda.
2. Grow the cloud (SaaS) advisory business, develop market leading capabilities and provide thought leadership in technology consulting.
3. Evaluate legacy applications, with the intent to propose a cloud enabled application stack that leverages the Force.com platform.
4. Build out Salesforce solutions - Articulate common data architecture, integration with external solutions, presentation layer and workflow.
5. Provide program cost estimation and monitor/revalidate the estimates at key transition points in the development lifecycle.
6. Lead one or more project teams to deliver solutions for the Salesforce.com platform to meet business requirements and realize business value.
7. Accountable for mobilizing the delivery team, identifying appropriate resources and rolling them on to the engagement.
8. Accountable for ensuring that the projects or programs adhere to delivery best practices and principles, manage scope and drive effective change control.
9. Provide standardized status reports, track/manage financials, manage risks and issues, communicating across the leadership team, and escalating where necessary.
10. Stay current on Salesforce releases, new features, product roadmaps and applications available from 3rd parties on the Salesforce AppExchange.

About you

Experience in solution architecting for different Salesforce Cloud implementation projects & proposals.

1. An ability to articulate and clearly communicate complex problems and solutions in a simple, logical and impactful manner.
2. Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-orientated environment.
3. Excellent communication (written and oral), storytelling, presentation and interpersonal skills.
4. Excellent leadership and management skills.
5. Minimum 10 + years’ experience blend of business and technical solution experience in solution and leading large sales, marketing and service programs in general digital transformation programs.
6. Minimum 5 + years’ experience in Salesforce strategy, roadmap design and creation.
7. Minimum of 5 + years’ experience working with clients across cloud transformation (across SaaS platforms) with a focus on the Salesforce.com environment and related PaaS and SaaS technologies.
8. Minimum 5 + years’ experience in selling consulting work – preferably developed in big consulting companies.
9. Minimum 5 + years professional services or 8 years industry experience in agile delivery of integration services.
10. Minimum 3 + years’ experience in crafting a value proposition and responding to RFP, RFI from clients.
11. One or more certification related to Salesforce Cloud processes, sales, service and/or architect level.

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Roadmapping, salesforce.com, Salesforce.com API, Salesforce AppExchange, Salesforce Data Architecture, Salesforce Development, Salesforce Environments, Salesforce Platform, Salesforce Solutions, Salesforce Technical Architecture

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Application Software, Business Model Development, Business Process Modeling, Business Systems, Coaching and Feedback, Communication, Creativity, Developing Training Materials, Embracing Change, Emerging Technologies, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Software, Implementation Research, Implementation Support, Implementing Technology, Inclusion, Influence, Innovative Design, Intellectual Curiosity {+ 26 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Yes

Government Clearance Required?

Yes

Job Posting End Date