Senior Principal Consultant, Solution Architect, SFDC

Client is seeking a proficient Salesforce Solution Architect to join our dynamic team. Your role will be to design and develop tailored solutions within the Salesforce platform to support critical business functions and meet project objectives, client requirements, and company goals. Our ideal candidate will have deep experience with Salesforce architecture and a solid understanding of business process development. Ultimately, your role will be to ensure the successful implementation of Salesforce solutions to meet business goals and deliver high value to our clients.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build high-performance, reusable, and reliable Salesforce solutions.
• Identify business processes that can be improved by implementing Salesforce.
• Develop customized solutions within the Salesforce platform.
• Communicate with project managers, clients, and other developers to design cohesive project strategies and ensure effective collaboration.
• Maintain a flexible and proactive work environment to facilitate a quick response to changing project requirements and customer objectives.
• Conduct research into clients use of Salesforce, producing a report of findings with recommended steps and a roadmap for Salesforce solutions.
• Lead business process redesign, roadmap planning, and identifying touch points in multi-cloud implementations.
• Lead migration of functionality & data from 3 ^rd party applications into Salesforce
• Develop strong client relationships by building trust, rapport, and positive working relationships with key sponsors, stakeholders, and team members.
• Remain current with leading-edge industry and technology drivers and innovations including the Salesforce product set.
• Manage discussions with various levels of customer s business stakeholders.
• Identify and help build services offerings to support rapid time to value for Salesforce implementations.
• Liaise with Salesforce product teams to support client implementations.
• Maintain a target billable utilization aligned to the role.
• Validate solution components, lead customer walkthroughs, and provide guidance to the project manager for key issues/risks to the project.
• Work with internal and customer stakeholders to create prototypes, proof of concepts, and sample mockups as a means of eliciting and defining business requirements.
• Create and own user stories/business requirements document as an outcome of the requirements gathering sessions.
• Mentor a team of mid-level and junior developers

• B.E or B.Tech or MCA
• Proven experience as a Solution Architect, with a strong understanding of Salesforce's platform.
• Must have experience in Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Data cloud
• Must have experience of integrating Salesforce with other 3 ^rd party applications using middleware (MuleSoft or Boomi), and REST/SOAP APIs
• Must have done at least solutioning with 2-3 large implementations individually or in lead capacity.
• Experience in CI/CD (Gearset, Copado, Jenkins), Git, VS Code, Azure DevOps.
• Deep understanding of user-centered design methods and standard processes.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Attention to detail and a strong sense of aesthetics

• Certifications in Salesforce/Product Owner
• 10 Years of experience in Salesforce ecosystem
• Must be able to apply design thinking in the business processes
• Understand the business problem and convert the problem into value stream.
• Experience in migrating functionalities and data from 3 ^rd party applications into Salesforce
• Excellent skills in persuasion and documentation using excel, word document, graphics etc.
• Expertise in any of the diagramming tools like draw.io, visio, lucidchart. Modelling tools knowledge is a must.
• Archimate is an additional advantage.
• DataModelling capability including creation or ERD.
• Familiarity with AWS/Azure for hybrid integrations
• Experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap
• Self-motivated and capable of taking decisions in ambiguous situations