We are seeking a Senior Technical Consultant / Technical Architect to join our Professional Services team. This person will become a Trusted Advisor to our customers and partners, supporting them during full life-cycle implementations of Salesforce Commerce Cloud solutions. From pre-sales and initial scoping, through build and test, to deployment and successful go-live, and throughout the customer’s long-term ownership of the solution in live environments.
She / he will work closely with key external & internal stakeholders representing Salesforce as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), using effective interpersonal skills, technical and product knowledge, industry experience, and knowledge of the client’s business to ensure solutions meet their business goals.
Role seniority to be evaluated during the application process based on individual experience.
Responsibilities:
- Act as a Trusted Advisor and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for our Salesforce Commerce Cloud customers
- Assess customer’s business & technology requirements, and translate into technical solutions
- Work closely with Salesforce cross-functional customer account teams to ensure customers are successful with our platform.
- Work closely with customers and partners to guide implementation projects to follow Salesforce best practices and align with our product roadmap, so resulting solutions meet customer long-term business objectives
- Deliver billable technical consulting and advisory services, including technical workshops, design / code reviews, architecture workshops, training and enablement to customer and partner teams, development work, product extensions / integrations, solution & performance optimizations, and supporting ad-hoc technical queries from customer & partner project teams
- Engagements may also include planning, organization, and leadership roles within customer and partner project teams
- Support Salesforce Sales and Customer Success teams with new license or expansion opportunities, providing estimations, proof-of-concepts, integration strategies and supporting design / architectural workshops
- Continuously developing your personal expertise on Salesforce Commerce Cloud, related products and technologies, and the ecommerce industry
- Contributing to thought-leadership, and sharing knowledge / best practices within the Salesforce community
- Some travel may be required, to be discussed during the application process
Location: various office based or remote locations in Europe considered
Qualifications:
- Experience implementing web applications using Cloud / SaaS technologies (e.g. AWS, Heroku)
- Hands-on experience in client- and server-side development (e.g. Html, CSS, RESTful web services, Node.js)
- Ability to analyze potential performance and scalability issues from architectural design and in live environments
- Ability to effectively translate and communicate business requirements into technical solutions
- Ability to drive projects to successful, on-time completion, and influence stakeholders and team members
- Proven team player that can work effectively across cross-functional teams and peers
- Self-starter that can work equally well under her / his own initiative or as member of a project team
- University degree in related field, Computer Science or Engineering-based preferred
- Very good written and verbal communication skills
- Business fluent in English (verbal and written).
The following are not mandatory however, any will be an advantage:
- Professional Services or consulting experience in customer-facing environments
- Salesforce platform development experience (LWC, Apex, Visualforce)
- Other B2C and/or B2B-Ecommerce platform experience
- Agile project methodology experience
- Other European languages (verbal or written)
