Salesforce Technical Architect, Public Sector (Cleared

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Customer Success GroupJob Details

The Professional Services organization is passionate about delivering Salesforce's premier 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.

Salesforce Professional Services is looking for Salesforce Technical Architect to work with our Public Sector customers. In this role, you will be serving as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform expert to the company’s largest, most complex enterprise customers within the following fields:

• Federal and State
• Non-profit
• Education
• Health & Life Sciences
• Public Sector Solutions using Salesforce Industries (formerly Vlocity)

For each industry under our Public Sector umbrella - please refer to the bottom half of this posting to view our requirements for success in these specialty roles.

A Technical Architect role within Salesforce includes these responsibilities and requirements:

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the client
• Identify and lead internal critical 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, 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, while ensuring solutions are 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:

• 5+ years enterprise architecture or consulting experience
• 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
• Thorough 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 connect 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

Required Qualities:

• TRUST: Trusts the company’s core values; shows integrity, transparency, and reliability
• Good Teammate: Proficient at collaboration and working with members of a team
• COMMUNICATOR: Speaks and writes with clarity, brevity, and purpose; explains the area of expertise clearly and confidently to others; influences and engages C-Level with authority and confidence

Preferred Requirements:

• Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
• Prior work experience or desire to work with our Public Sector customers - government agencies, non-profit, education
• Ability to convey and convince customers of best practices at various levels within a large organization
• Application design and development background
• Travel may be required and varies depending on the client requirements
• Strong Enterprise Architecture background would be favorable
• Relevant Salesforce experience is desired
• Highly beneficial to have any Salesforce product certifications prior to joining, particularly:
• Salesforce Certified Administrator
• Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator
• Platform App Builder
• Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant
• Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant
• Familiarity with working in a Salesforce Gov Cloud (GIA1) or Gov Cloud Plus (GIA2) org environments and/or Mulesoft Gov Cloud

Public Sector Appendix (Cleared)

• This position requires a Top Secret and Polygraph Clearance
• Experience working with Salesforce GovCloud or GovCloud Plus is desired
• Any type of previous or current successful adjudications on HSPD-12 or other types of federal security clearances is a plus
• Qualification for this job is contingent upon acceptable results from a background investigation as well as your obtaining and maintaining the specific level of U.S. Government security clearance required for this role. U.S. citizenship (U.S. born or naturalized) required.

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