Pre-sales: Assisting the leadership team in scoping, planning, and onboarding activities associated with project resourcing and client projects, including involvement in pre-sales activities as required
Facilitation of requirements gathering: Ensuring client solution requirements are understood and met by applying industry best practices and detailed knowledge of the Salesforce platform to design optimal client solutions.
Solution Architecture: Creating and delivering innovative, client focused Salesforce solutions through team leadership, strong teamwork, initiative, and collaboration.
Delivery: Leading the delivery of assigned client projects in collaboration with the Project manager and contributing at all stages of project delivery in accordance with VisDM standards and principals.
Execution: Lead by example by being hands on and deliver best in class custom solutions on the Salesforce platform.
Communication: Providing clear visibility on the status of all in-practice projects underway and planned
Collaborative: Provide functional expert and authoritative advice, guidance and training within the areas of service and providing leadership in continuous improvement of delivery practices and adhering to VisDM standards;
Stakeholder Management: Developing and maintaining relationships with client stakeholders throughout a project to maintain and develop the business relationship, ensure satisfaction with services provided, and identify opportunities for further growth;
Partner Management: Liaising and working with technology teams and vendors (including Salesforce) to ensure alignment between technical and functional specifications and business objectives and to identify areas to reduce implementation efforts;
Quality in Delivery: Leading quality management reviews and ensuring that all business and design requirements are met;
Oversight: Maintaining oversight across all in-practice client projects via timely reviews and guiding and assisting delivery resources, as appropriate, to ensure successful project outcomes and adherence to VisDM standards
Practice Growth (subject to available capacity): Adds value to the Centre of Excellence to establish governance around the solution aspects of the projects:
Own the overall solution blueprint and roadmap for a complex engagement.
Actively assist in pre-sales activities to understand high level scope and translating into a standard solution offering deal approach, solution plan, proposal, and cost estimate leveraging standard process methods, deliverables, and the right collection of offerings
Define standards for estimations and establish a review/validate process for the same during pre-sales and execution
Design standards for solutions that derive maximum business benefits and leverage more value from our existing investment in Salesforce and relevant ecosystems
Review the current processes and suggest areas of improvement.
Helps in building the internal knowledge base, contribute to thought leadership and best practices.
Profile
Minimum Bachelors Degree in IT/Computer Science/Computer Engineering/ Engineering
Must have minimum 8 years of Salesforce Hands-on experience with Development and solutioning
Must have 2-3 years of Architect Experience
Minimum 5 years of Salesforce.com (SFDC) systems implementation experience (Service Cloud and Sales Cloud),
Experience working with iterative and agile methodologies,
Data migration experience
Good analysis and solution designing skills
Effective presentation and communication skills
Strong experience in Salesforce.com consultancy required
Knowledge in Design thinking and Agile Methodology
Open to travel and overseas posting
Must have Salesforce Application Architect Certification and other Salesforce certifications.
Familiar with Public Sector experience is plus point