Salesforce Senior Advisory Architect

Own Company; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to act as a strategic advisor and platform expert for our largest enterprise customers. You will guide architectural decisions, design scalable solutions, and ensure engineering teams align with long-term value and minimal technical debt.

You will collaborate with Delivery Managers, Solution Architects, and clients to deliver Salesforce-based architectures, manage risk, and drive successful implementations across complex programs, often

Qualifications

• 12+ years in enterprise architecture or consulting.
• Strong design, data, integration, and security architecture skills.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted advisor to the client and guide strategic initiatives.
• Lead and collaborate with delivery teams to architect Salesforce-based solutions.
• Identify risk areas and ensure issues are resolved.
• Engage with clients and partners to support project success.
• Travel to client sites as needed.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Data architecture

Integration architecture

Security architecture

Presentation skills

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

Description

The Professional Services organisation is focused on delivering Salesforce's world-class 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, minimising potential technical debt.

Our team is made up of thousands of the world’s leading Salesforce experts. We share our own 20 years of product best practices with your team and partners so that you have everything you need to achieve your goals.

Salesforce Professional Services is looking for a Senior Technical Architect. As a Senior Technical Architect, you will be serving as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform expert to the company’s largest, most complex enterprise customers. Here are some salient responsibilities the role entails -

YOUR IMPACT: Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the client
• Identify and lead internal strategic 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 rationalising and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value
• Work collaboratively and 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 artefacts to keep programs on track and solutions 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
• Lead the technical architecture team for an enterprise-level customer engagement
• From time-to-time, the TA may be expected to partake in other pre-sales activities such as discovery and technical deep-dive sessions, Proof-Of-Concept (POC) development with prospects
• Liaise with Salesforce product teams to support client implementations
• Expected to participate in pre-sales activities such as discovery and technical deep-dive sessions, Proof-Of-Concept (POC) development with prospects
• Travels to client sites for projects, estimated 50-75%

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 12+ 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
• Detail-oriented 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 communicate with people in diverse roles
• Proven ability to analyse, design, and optimise 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
• TEAM PLAYER: 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 QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or a related quantitative discipline. Equivalent demonstrable work experience in lieu of a degree will be considered
• Application, System Architect, CTA Certifications (Optional) or ability to clear the certifications on hire (Oops there is likely a stray closing tag)