Services Sales Solution Architect

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Washington -, Texas -, Georgia, IN · Remote

Salesforce Professional Services seeks experienced strategic architect leaders with proven success to lead customers in the Healthcare Industry through business, operations, and technology transformation. The role involves cultivating executive customer relationships, leveraging deep Salesforce and cross-cloud technology expertise to craft innovative strategies, and acting as the voice of the customer to drive adoption of Salesforce technologies. Responsibilities include supporting sales pursuits, defining scope and pricing, ensuring technical architecture optimization, and collaborating with internal teams. The role also focuses on internal growth, compliance with industry regulations, staying updated on Salesforce developments, and building an architecture community within the Regulated ProServ team.

What you'd actually do

  1. Actively participate in the pursuit process in support of Services Sellers for our large scale deals, working cross-functionally within Salesforce to ensure we are selling what we can technically deliver as aligned with the customer’s objectives; work with teams to deliver the pitch, define scope/team and pricing and contractual arrangements.
  2. Support transformational changes needed to achieve the customers' objectives, informed by deep industry and product expertise.
  3. Ensure the technical architecture is optimized to achieve the most elegant client solution; balance business requirements with technical capabilities to deliver the optimal business outcomes.
  4. Work hand in hand with internal teams (Sales, Success, Technology and Products, TMP and Support) to develop and manage strategy and drive customer adoption initiatives.
  5. Develop and strengthen others’ consulting skills, industry knowledge, product knowledge, competency skills, and leadership capabilities.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years experience leading enterprise-level technology transformation programs with Fortune 500 companies (preferably Salesforce enabled transformations)
  • 10+ years of relevant consulting experience in professional services
  • 10+ years of experience leading, managing, coaching, and developing staff
  • 8+ years of experience with Cloud and cloud based technologies (not limited to Salesforce platform but ideally Health Cloud, Life Science Cloud built on the SF platform, Sales and Service Cloud)
  • 8+ years of experience with the Healthcare industry
  • 8+ years of experience with data architecture
  • 8+ years in System to System integration, distributed architectures, event driven architecture using common ESB platforms like Mulesoft
  • Experience working with customers to understand and solve their most pressing business challenges
  • Knowledge of the concepts, practices, procedures, and deliverables associated with system development, implementation, and operational readiness.
  • Knowledge of solution acumen to work with teams to develop comprehensive operational plans and address technical issues
  • Significant experience managing C-suite relationships at customers with a focus on technology and architecture leaders
  • A team player with experience working on pursuit teams and participating in the proposal development process
  • Executive-level communication and presentation skills, written and oral
  • Significant experience in understanding security, compliance and building scalable and high availability application architectures

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree
  • Travel up to 50%

What the JD emphasized

  • Healthcare Industry
  • Healthcare Industry
  • Healthcare Industry
  • Regulated ProServ
  • Regulated vertical
  • Regulated vertical
  • Regulated vertical
  • Regulated vertical
  • Regulated ProServ
  • Regulated vertical
  • Regulated vertical