Overview

Salesforce Senior Technical Architect - Consumer Goods Cloud / Loyalty Cloud (Senior Manager, Technology) role at Publicis Sapient. Salesforce Senior Technical Architects are platform experts who translate client business requirements into architecture and design masterful solutions. Creativity in problem solving and strong listening skills are key facets.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Analyzing business processes and identifying alternative solutions, assessing feasibility and recommending new approaches typically seeking to exploit new technology components
• Modeling 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
• Collaborating to develop and enforce Publicis Sapient set of architecture and development libraries and whitepapers
• Setting standards for programming tools and techniques and advising 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
• Experience of Salesforce Consumer Goods Cloud and/or Loyalty Cloud with relevant certifications (Consumer Goods Cloud Accredited Professional, Loyalty Management Accredited Professional)
• 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

• Extensive experience working within the Consumer Goods Sector
• 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

Our hybrid work policy requires employees to be present in the office or at client sites for a minimum of 3 days per week (4 days for VP+). We trust our employees to determine what a reasonable commute is for their individual circumstances. While we embrace flexibility, this commute should allow you to fulfil in-office/client site expectations of the policy.

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, age, 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 and will provide adjustments where possible throughout the recruitment process. If you require adjustments at any point, please email hiringuk@publicissapient.com and we will work with you to implement adjustments where possible.

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