Success Architect - Sales Cloud

Salesforce; India; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce India is seeking a seasoned Success Architect to join our Cloud Success team. You will partner with customers to assess implementations, offer guidance on best practices, and drive architectural health across engagements.

In this role, you will navigate complex integrations, design scalable solutions, and collaborate with internal teams to ensure long-term customer success. Fluency in English and deep Salesforce knowledge are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on technical experience (e.g., Senior Support Engineer, Technical Consultant, or Senior Salesforce Admin).
• Strong working knowledge of Salesforce products, platform capabilities, technical governance and best practices.
• Experience participating in complex implementations and understanding integration principles.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise application integration, covering process orchestration, master data management, AI, analytics and security best practices.
• Familiarity with industry- or vertical-specific solutions (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Drive Customer Impact - Partner with a portfolio of customers, assessing their implementations and delivering recommendations on common technical issues, feature adoption (Guide), and foundational solution design (basic Architect).
• Lead with Expertise - Serve as a trusted technical generalist, providing reactive and proactive guidance on product best practices.
• Communicate with Clarity - Simplify complex technical concepts for diverse audiences, from technical teams to customer stakeholders and managers, positioning yourself as a trusted advisor.
• Innovate & Solve Problems - Triage capability gaps and design inefficiencies, resolving common issues directly and escalating complex architectural challenges to senior Success Architects.
• Execute Proven Strategies - Leverage and execute playbooks from Support, Guides, and the Architect team to meet customer needs.
• Build Strong Relationships - Collaborate with internal and external partners, fostering connections that drive customer success, product improvement and overall business growth.]
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Skills

Salesforce expertise

Architectural design

Integration principles

AI analytics

English proficiency

Education

8+ years hands-on technical experience

Tools

Einstein Conversation Insights

Sales Cloud

Sales Engagement

Sales Performance Management

ETL tools

Job description

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Success Architect

Cloud Success is a specialized team within Customer Success, bringing together customer support engineers, proactive monitoring, specialist product advisors and technical architects. This team not only resolves technical issues but also provides expert guidance on optimizing and leveraging Salesforce technology to drive long-term business success.

Success Architects play a flexible and pivotal role in supporting a wide range of customers. They act as the customer's first point of contact for a mix of reactive and proactive needs. This includes providing frontline technical support (Support), delivering educational 'Guide' sessions to drive feature adoption, and assisting with foundational architectural health checks (basic Architect). They collaborate closely with senior Success Architects and Support Engineers to triage complex issues and ensure customers are on a path to long-term health, bridging the gap between daily challenges and long-term success.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive Customer Impact - Partner with a portfolio of customers, assessing their implementations and delivering recommendations on common technical issues, feature adoption (Guide), and foundational solution design (basic Architect).
• Lead with Expertise - Serve as a trusted technical generalist, providing reactive and proactive guidance on product best practices.
• Communicate with Clarity - Simplify complex technical concepts for diverse audiences, from technical teams to customer stakeholders and managers, positioning yourself as a trusted advisor.
• Innovate & Solve Problems - Triage capability gaps and design inefficiencies, resolving common issues directly and escalating complex architectural challenges to senior Success Architects.
• Execute Proven Strategies - Leverage and execute playbooks from Support, Guides, and the Architect team to meet customer needs.
• Build Strong Relationships - Collaborate with internal and external partners, fostering connections that drive customer success, product improvement and overall business growth.

Basic Requirements

Solution Design & Architecture

• 8+ years of hands-on technical experience (e.g., Senior Support Engineer, Technical Consultant, or Senior Salesforce Admin).
• Strong working knowledge of Salesforce products, platform capabilities, technical governance and best practices.
• Experience participating in complex implementations and understanding integration principles.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise application integration, covering process orchestration, master data management, AI, analytics and security best practices.
• Familiarity with industry- or vertical-specific solutions (preferred).

Communication & Leadership

• Ability to assess business objectives, propose solution options and drive stakeholder alignment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts to both business and technical audiences.
• Skilled in creating clear, visually compelling design documents for diverse stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage customer-facing discussions and explain technical concepts clearly.
• High proficiency in English.

Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving

• Ability to identify design inefficiencies, recommend optimizations and drive customer transformation.
• Provide data-driven insights on customer success stories and industry trends.
• Passion for continuous learning and staying ahead of emerging technologies.

Desired Technical Skills

Sales Cloud Expertise

• Strong functional and configuration knowledge of Sales Cloud features, including opportunity/pipeline management, forecasting, email integration and advanced capabilities such as Einstein Conversation Insights, Sales Engagement and Sales Performance Management.
• Ability to configure and optimize these features to meet business needs.

Data Management & Integration

• Proficient in understanding and troubleshooting data models, relationships (lookup/master-detail), validation rules and data governance best practices.
• Experience with data import/export strategies, deduplication, ETL tools, and integratin