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Publicis Sapient

Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture - Salesforce Centre of Excellence

London, United Kingdom

Description

What if you were empowered to enable a company's most complex digital business transformation? What if you could work for a company that believes that top-line growth is as important as work-life balance? What if you could collaborate with teams of talented and passionate individuals to craft innovative architectures and transformational strategies?

A Senior Enterprise Architect in our Salesforce Centre of Excellence is a customer-facing enterprise-wide expert with broad technical skills, deep industry knowledge, and unparalleled business acumen. They have deep and broad knowledge of Salesforce, AppExchange and the overall Salesforce ecosystem. The Senior Enterprise Architect engages with companies and prospects using a business capability approach and value propositions that align with the company's growth, M&A, product and operations strategies (growing revenue, optimizing costs, and mitigating risks). A Senior Enterprise Architect is a blend of deep technical skills and deep soft skills including communication, influence, inspiration, teamwork and leadership.

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A Senior Enterprise Architect is trusted and respected as a thought-leader by company's business and technology teams. They is comfortable, experienced and accomplished at working with business and technology executives. The Senior Enterprise Architect is also highly collaborative and knowledgeable of a company's strategies and is pragmatic and practical in approach to problem solving and decision making. They is innovative with aptitude for foresight, systems thinking and design thinking. They are business outcome focused.

The Senior Enterprise Architect proactively and holistically helps guide companies through transformation and optimization initiatives by applying existing, new, and emerging technologies, with a primary focus on the Salesforce eco-system.

The Senior Enterprise Architect is a subject matter expert in a variety of categories that will include: application architecture, data & information, integration, security, cloud computing, distributed platforms, mobile, and analytics. Senior Enterprise Architects are expected to use proven consultative approaches to engage with company's and define their transformational journey along with steps to get there.

Your Impact

  • Lead development of multi-year business capability roadmaps for a company's business units such as Marketing, Sales, Services, HR, and Finance.
  • Facilitate enterprise strategy development, opportunity identification, business cases, technology adoption opportunities, operating model development, and innovation opportunities. Lead formulation of strategies for the enterprise services like search, content management, data, integration, micro-services, etc.
  • Facilitate development of cross-functional business solutions that combine knowledge of business capabilities, value streams, and business processes.
  • Focus on enabling companies to grow revenue, optimize costs, and mitigate risks.
  • Partner with stakeholders early in the project lifecycle to identify business, information, technical and security architecture issues and act as a strategic consultant throughout the technology lifecycle.
  • Define architecture principles, guardrails, standards and policies.
  • Lead or participate in the enterprise architecture governance, compliance and security activities (architectural reviews, technology sourcing, data governance) to ensure technology solutions are consistent with the target state architecture.
  • Promote the Enterprise Architecture processes, strategies, and recommendations to companies and prospects.
  • Provide architecture leadership and oversight for transformational enterprise impacting initiatives.
  • Lead the enterprise architecture assessment to identify reuse opportunities.
  • Develop and maintain architecture artifacts, frameworks, and patterns as references for engineers and architects.
  • Participate in the architecture community of practice, internal knowledge sharing sessions, external events such as Dreamforce and customer briefings
  • Construct deliverables that demonstrate how to move a company toward realizing its strategic goals and targeted business outcomes using structured approaches.
  • Liaise with subject matter experts across the industry and within the organization to accomplish enterprise architecture goals and objectives.
  • Lead analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise architecture.


Qualifications

Publicis Sapient UK is a Disability Confident employer and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and accessible work environment. We encourage individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions to apply for this position, and we will provide adjustments where possible throughout the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments at any point in the process, please get in touch as soon as possible by emailing hiringuk@publicissapient.com. Publicis Sapient UK will then work with you to explore and implement adjustments as and where these are possible. If you have any questions regarding adjustments, please email us at hiringuk@publicissapient.com

  • We have got you and your family covered with 25 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), life assurance, dental insurance, income protection, critical illness cover, private healthcare for you AND your family (pre-existing conditions included), and a pension
  • We know the importance of health and wellbeing so offer you extensive retail discount offers and further reimbursement towards activities that contribute to a healthier lifestyle
  • We are proud to actively invest in your learning through various learning platforms
  • Diversity and inclusion aren't just buzzwords. We offer an inclusive environment through our inspirational business resource groups and work with you to give back to the local community through CSR efforts


Additional Information

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organisations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients' businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Company Description

What if you were empowered to enable a company's most complex digital business transformation? What if you could work for a company that believes that top-line growth is as important as work-life balance? What if you could collaborate with teams of talented and passionate individuals to craft innovative architectures and transformational strategies?

A Senior Enterprise Architect in our Salesforce Centre of Excellence is a customer-facing enterprise-wide expert with broad technical skills, deep industry knowledge, and unparalleled business acumen. They have deep and broad knowledge of Salesforce, AppExchange and the overall Salesforce ecosystem. The Senior Enterprise Architect engages with companies and prospects using a business capability approach and value propositions that align with the company's growth, M&A, product and operations strategies (growing revenue, optimizing costs, and mitigating risks). A Senior Enterprise Architect is a blend of deep technical skills and deep soft skills including communication, influence, inspiration, teamwork and leadership.

A Senior Enterprise Architect is trusted and respected as a thought-leader by company's business and technology teams. They is comfortable, experienced and accomplished at working with business and technology executives. The Senior Enterprise Architect is also highly collaborative and knowledgeable of a company's strategies and is pragmatic and practical in approach to problem solving and decision making. They is innovative with aptitude for foresight, systems thinking and design thinking. They are business outcome focused.

The Senior Enterprise Architect proactively and holistically helps guide companies through transformation and optimization initiatives by applying existing, new, and emerging technologies, with a primary focus on the Salesforce eco-system.

The Senior Enterprise Architect is a subject matter expert in a variety of categories that will include: application architecture, data & information, integration, security, cloud computing, distributed platforms, mobile, and analytics. Senior Enterprise Architects are expected to use proven consultative approaches to engage with company's and define their transformational journey along with steps to get there.

Your Impact

  • Lead development of multi-year business capability roadmaps for a company's business units such as Marketing, Sales, Services, HR, and Finance.
  • Facilitate enterprise strategy development, opportunity identification, business cases, technology adoption opportunities, operating model development, and innovation opportunities. Lead formulation of strategies for the enterprise services like search, content management, data, integration, micro-services, etc.
  • Facilitate development of cross-functional business solutions that combine knowledge of business capabilities, value streams, and business processes.
  • Focus on enabling companies to grow revenue, optimize costs, and mitigate risks.
  • Partner with stakeholders early in the project lifecycle to identify business, information, technical and security architecture issues and act as a strategic consultant throughout the technology lifecycle.
  • Define architecture principles, guardrails, standards and policies.
  • Lead or participate in the enterprise architecture governance, compliance and security activities (architectural reviews, technology sourcing, data governance) to ensure technology solutions are consistent with the target state architecture.
  • Promote the Enterprise Architecture processes, strategies, and recommendations to companies and prospects.
  • Provide architecture leadership and oversight for transformational enterprise impacting initiatives.
  • Lead the enterprise architecture assessment to identify reuse opportunities.
  • Develop and maintain architecture artifacts, frameworks, and patterns as references for engineers and architects.
  • Participate in the architecture community of practice, internal knowledge sharing sessions, external events such as Dreamforce and customer briefings
  • Construct deliverables that demonstrate how to move a company toward realizing its strategic goals and targeted business outcomes using structured approaches.
  • Liaise with subject matter experts across the industry and within the organization to accomplish enterprise architecture goals and objectives.
  • Lead analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise architecture.

Client-provided location(s): London, UK
Job ID: Publicis_Sapient-743999974126697
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Family Support Resources
    • Adoption Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Volunteer Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Pension
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Profit Sharing
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Learning and Development Stipend
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Internship Program
    • Leadership Training Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

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