Salesforce Sales Architect (m/f/d)

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The role

The Salesforce Sales Architect would be responsible for driving architecture & design for Enterprise solutions involving Salesforce applications, especially focussing on the Sales processes. This role will be responsible to bring in best practices of design & implementation across different Salesforce Clouds & domains.

• Bring in best practices for Salesforce multi-cloud implementation & rollouts.
• Drive scoping discussions with customer for Sales processes.
• Create Architecture Blueprint & High-level Solution design for implementations.
• Liaise with Design Authority/Architecture Review Board on Customer side, to present architecture and drive approvals.
• Create Feature Roadmap for functionalities.
• Perform fit-gap analysis across different solutions and come up with product recommendations.
• Configure/develop complex Salesforce functionalities and guide development team on the implementation.

• Extensive professional background on CRM/SalesForce.com
• In-depth understanding of SFDC CRM application (Sales and Service Cloud) capabilities and constraints. Knowledge of Pardot would also be necessary
• Should have architected and designed 4 -5 secure, high-performance technical solutions on the Force.com platform
• Architected 2 or more successful custom Salesforce.com solutions spanning multiple platforms, including integration and authentication
• Knowledge of Force.com development best practices
• Excellent understanding of SOSL and SOQL, Salesforce.com's Web Services and APIs, and the SalesForce Security model
• Excellent understanding of relational database concepts and how to best implement database objects in the Salesforce.com platform
• Experience integrating data into SalesForce from multiple data sources using tools including DataLoader
• Experience gathering and presenting information from multiple sources in a single UI
• Experience architecting and building solutions within the SalesForce Portal
• Full understanding of project life cycle and development methodologies.
• Ability to interact with technical and functional staff at all levels.
• Must be creative, innovative and be able to work in a fast-paced environment with the ability to abstract detail into larger patterns, familiarity with user-centered analysis and evaluation techniques.
• Excellent oral, written communication and presentation skills.
• Preferably holding both Salesforce Certified Application Architect & Salesforce certified Integration Architect certifications
• Should be able to work in offshore / onsite model