Senior Manager (SF Architecture mandatory & Telcom/Comms Cloud)

Salesforce; Hyderabad, Pune District, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce Global Delivery Centre in Hyderabad, India seeks a Sr Manager, Technical Consulting to lead a team of technical consultants and architects, shaping delivery for Insurance, Banking and Healthcare domains. You will mentor, hire, and set strategic direction, ensuring high-value, scalable Salesforce solutions with strong governance.

You will drive Enterprise Architecture, lead Workshops, and partner with Delivery Managers to deliver on complex programs, maintaining customer trust and

Qualifications

• 18+ years of leading Salesforce technical consulting projects.
• 8+ years in people management and technical architecture.
• Strong design skills with data, integration, and security architecture.
• Expertise in Comms Cloud, Banking, Insurance, Wealth Mgmt or Healthcare.
• Proficient in Salesforce/Apex, Triggers, Lightning, LWC and web tech.

Responsibilities

• Lead a large team of Technical Consultants, Architects and Managers.
• Hire, train, and mentor staff on Insurance, Financial Services, or Healthcare domains.
• Serve as trusted advisor and guide clients in deploying emerging technologies.
• Grow Insurance and Financial Services consulting practice via internal initiatives.
• Architect technology solutions with Delivery Managers and clients.
• Lead Enterprise Architecture and Governance for enterprise-level engagements.
• Facilitate functional and technical workshops and ensure high-quality delivery.
• Oversee projects leveraging Salesforce Comms Cloud for telecom clients.
• Balance billable work at ~25% with leadership responsibilities.

Skills

Salesforce technical consulting

People management

Enterprise Architecture

Architecture design

Integration Architecture

Platform Security

Identity & Access Management

Data Architecture

Apex / LWC / Lightning

English proficiency

Tools

Salesforce Comms Cloud

OmniStudio

Apex / Triggers

Lightning Web Components (LWC)

HTML / CSS / JavaScript

Job description

Department Description:

Salesforce Professional Services - Global Delivery Centre (GDC) focuses on delivering strategic engagements that define transformational opportunities and execution of change programs. We are the trusted delivery partner for Salesforce Professional Services that ensures end to end multi-cloud delivery capabilities across all Salesforce technologies and scales with agility for successful customer outcomes! We at GDC strive to foster growth & innovation and enable for Salesforce Professional Services with focus on performance, productivity & impact.

Role overview:

Salesforce is currently seeking a Sr Manager, Technical Consulting (to join our Global Delivery Centre (GDC) team. Our Manager, Technical Consulting role plays a meaningful part in managing, training, and building the careers of our technical consulting team. We are key players in this objective, as they can use Industry Cloud functionality to deliver customer requirements quickly with minimal customization. In addition to people leadership, career coaching, and project oversight responsibilities for the team, you will build our Insurance and Financial Services practice through leading internal initiatives, contributing to the technical practice business plan, developing methodology, creating team enablement, onboarding new architects, and recruiting to build the team. This role is 25% billable and in addition to team leadership, you will work with our customers and partners as a senior technical architect to solve critically important business challenges using Salesforces Insurance and Financial Services Cloud.

Responsibilities:

• Youll have up to 35 reports under your scope of responsibility. You will be required to deliver technical work (as a senior technical architect) on Financial Services domain projects at 25% utilization and balance that with leading your team of Technical Consultants, Architects and Managers.
• You’ll be responsible for hiring, training, and mentoring our Technical Consultants on Insurance or Financial Services or Healthcare or Communication domain so they can implement successfully in turning the program design of our Solution Architects and Technical Architects into highest-quality solutions that meets the customers’ needs.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the client, guiding customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value
• Identify and lead internal critical initiatives to grow the Insurance and Financial Services consulting practice; serving as an active contributor to the community’s overall knowledge base and expertise
• Work closely on projects with Delivery Managers, Solution Architects, and directly with clients to architect technology solutions to meet client needs
• Lead Enterprise Architecture and Governance for an enterprise-level customer engagement. Serve as a trusted advisor to the client driving conversations with their Enterprise Architects and business stakeholders that shape the architectural vision, and establish a program architectural roadmap.
• Lead functional and technical workshops. Demonstrate leadership skills in designing, delivering, testing, and deploying.
• Lead a project team of developers focused on driving optimized solutions for our Comms clients leveraging Salesforce Comms cloud/Comms domain
• Ensure the success of these teams while securing the highest CSAT and business outcomes
• Manage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party stakeholders
• Establish trust with the customer’s leadership, promoting and/or implementing best practices with SFI and Salesforce
• Highlight and manage risk areas in the solution in a proactive manner, and commit to seeing an issue through to completion

Minimum Requirements:

• 18+ years of experience leading Salesforce technical consulting projects and handling individual contributors.
• 8+ years of people management and Technical Architecture experience
• Strong application design skills combined with strong data, integration, and security architecture skills
• Expertise in one or multiples of Comms Cloud (preferred not mandatory) Sales/Service/Experience Cloud, and Vlocity OmniStudio
• Expertise in one or multiple domains of Banking (retail, commercial, investment, mortgage lending and servicing), Insurance, Wealth & Asset Managementor Healthcare
• Integration Architecture (Must have)
• Platform Security (Must have)
• Identity and Access Management / Integration Security
• Sharing and Visibility (Must have)
• Data Architecture and Management (Must have)
• Architectural Design Patterns
• Apex Design Patterns (Must Have)
• Salesforce/Apex, Triggers, Lightning Flows, Lightning, LWC, and experience with modern web and mobile technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web Components, others)
• Proficiency in English

Preferred Requirements:

• Salesforce Certification Preferred (Admin, Developer, Sales, and Service Clouds, Application Architect)
• OmniStudio Developer/Consultant
• 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 communicate 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
• Adept at navigating/mediating conflict and fostering healthy dialogue
• Strong interpersonal skills - nurture effective working relationships with others
• Exceptional analytical skills - experience overseeing and managing business metrics, productivity, and outcomes