Salesforce

Lead Technical Architect

Salesforce

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaIdahoUnited States

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Salary

💰 $148,190 - $198,170 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Work with customers to address and solve a wide variety of technical challenges, meshing the agile capabilities of the Salesforce Platform and portfolio solutions with the technologies the customer already has in place.
  • Develop relationships with customer IT/technical stakeholders, and help them to understand how the Salesforce platform fits into their overall technology strategy.
  • Act as a trusted advisor, and guide customers towards solutions that have the greatest likelihood of long-term success.
  • Hone your own knowledge of the Salesforce product suite through hands-on training and exploration in the areas of customization, integration, and delivery, and support our account-aligned solution engineers when this deeper level of expertise is needed to solve customer challenges.
  • Evangelize the value proposition, benefits, and advantages, of the Salesforce Platform including Data Cloud, Agentforce, AI. High level familiarity with Tableau, Mulesoft, Slack and more is a bonus. Educate customers and peers on the ways to solution using the Salesforce product suite.
  • Strong understanding of AI and Data architecture principles and the competitive landscape.
  • Understand and advise on the broad ecosystem of ISV and partner solutions that cooperate and integrate with Salesforce.
  • Guide deal strategy by providing insight into the technical buyer, and craft influence strategies that resonate with this audience.
  • Keep current with both partner and competitive technologies in order to put proposed solutions into the context of the broader technology landscape.
  • Highlight insights from customer conversations with our product teams to help ensure we are moving in the direction of market needs.
  • Share your knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned with the broader solution engineering teams to multiply the impact of your work.
  • Continue to develop yourself as a technologist and as a presales professional in a supportive, collaborative team environment.

Requirements

  • Ability to understand business & IT department requirements, translate those business needs into a compelling solution, and present your recommendations to executive, technical, and business audience.
  • Exceptional executive presence and proven ability to articulate complex topics effectively to both C-suite leaders and technical practitioners.
  • Deep knowledge of enterprise software applications and their delivery, including several of the following:
  • Some coding experience and a willingness to work with code (Apex, Node, Go, R, Java or C#, JavaScript, python, Ruby, etc.)
  • Database and data management fundamentals
  • Web and mobile application development and architecture
  • Application lifecycle management
  • Integration principles and tools
  • Enterprise data management tools and methods
  • Process orchestration
  • Principles of network, application, and information security
  • Experience with machine learning concepts (predictive and generative AI), plus the ability to communicate value to diverse audiences.
  • Deeply research, evaluate, and experiment with emerging AI and Data technologies, distilling practical, hands-on knowledge and patterns to enable internal teams and guide customer solutions.
  • Strong oral, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication and relationship skills.
  • Strategic thinker, thought leadership and comfort communicating with executive audiences.
  • Excellent time management skills and the ability to support multiple, concurrent projects.
  • Lifelong learner, inquisitive, practical, and passionate about technology and sharing knowledge.
  • Willing and able to travel domestically.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Data Science, Management Information Systems, other STEM degrees or equivalent work experience. Graduate study a plus.
Benefits
  • time off programs
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • mental health support
  • paid parental leave
  • life and disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • employee stock purchasing program
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Hard Skills & Tools
Salesforce PlatformApexNodeGoRJavaC#JavaScriptPythonRuby
Soft Skills
executive presencearticulate complex topicsinterpersonal communicationrelationship skillsstrategic thinkerthought leadershiptime managementlifelong learnerinquisitivepassionate about technology