Salesforce Architect

Salesforce ArchitectLocation: Pune | Salesforce Years of Experience: 8 Years+About the role:As a Salesforce Pre-Sales Solution Architect, you will own the integrity and strength of thesolutions recommended. You’ll be acting as a trusted advisor to our team and clients, and aneffective mentor for other Salesforce professionals working alongside you. You will need adeep understanding of the Salesforce platform but just as importantly, top-notch peopleskills to get your ideas and solutions across to stakeholders and gain integrity to get yourvisions built into successful solutions.ResponsibilitiesThis is a varied Salesforce Solution Architect role, with the following responsibilities: Conduct research into clients’ use of Salesforce, producing a report of findings withrecommended steps and a roadmap for Salesforce solutions, Provides technical support in sales calls, solution presentations, and assists the clientpartners in managing the deal cycle Translates customer business objectives and requirements into solutions and level-of-effort estimates to implement those solutions Provides input for RFI and RFP responses, including the effort estimate, project team,timeline, implementation methodology and solution components Delivers excellent Salesforce sales presentations to the customer in support of thesales process Acts as trusted advisor to customers by anticipating customer needs and identifyingappropriate solution alternatives Responds to customer questions and objections on technical issues Validates technical recommendations against customer requirements and assistswith preparing statements of work A strategic approach to solution design, with a proven ability to develop and executetactical plans to support the strategy Collaborate with colleagues and customers to create prototypes and proofs ofconcept as a means of eliciting and defining requirements, Review solutions and recommending improvements, Groom and refine the Salesforce product backlog, in liaison with stakeholders on theproject, Own the design of Salesforce and (optionally) other affiliated solutions for Sales,Service, and platform solutions, Act as a release manager, approving configuration and coded items to be deployedbetween environments. Where appropriate, this could include deploying changes, Provide guidance on user story writing style, Ensure success and acceptance criteria are defined for each story, Describe and illustrate designs with appropriate justifications, Ensure documentation of the steps for testing, Groom and refine the Salesforce product backlog, in liaison with Salesforce SMEs, Supervise the configuration, quality assurance, testing, and deployment ofSalesforce, Collaborative project and workstream planning.Required Qualifications and Background At least 5 years’ experience in a leading role in designing & providing solutions inSalesforce projects, Excellent communication skills, written, verbal, and interactive when online, Minimum Salesforce certified: Administrator Sales Cloud Consultant Service Cloud Consultant Platform App Builder Salesforce Designer certifications, Salesforce Architecture certifications – Technical & Solution Architect