Sr. Solution Architect - Salesforce Job

Experience

13-16 Years

Job Description

• Responsible for architect and design of complex technology solutions as part of Lead to Closure process.
• Review the solutions designed by team members.
• Lead the development of design and contribution to PTG activities such as development of accelerators, demos, etc. in their respective Business Unit.
• Participate in establishing architecture guiding principles, reference architectures and implementations, frameworks and methodologies that will ensure the conversion of operational and transformation roadmaps into successful solution implementations.
• Participate and keep up-to-date on the relevant development and innovations in the industry to ensure emerging technologies and industry trends are adopted to meet client needs.
• Support the transference of the proposed solution design to the delivery team, however remain engaged with the client long term.
• Lead solution architecture projects and provide technical guidance to solution architects and development teams.
• Collaborate with business development teams to develop proposals and respond to RFPs.
• Work with other senior leaders to align solution architecture with the organization's overall business strategy.
• Provide thought leadership and evangelize solution architecture across the organization.
• Mentor and coach junior solution architects and development teams.
• Provide input into the organization's technology roadmap and make recommendations on emerging technologies that can benefit the organization.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and provide recommendations to senior leadership.

Required Technical/ Functional Competencies

Proposal Defense:

• Good understanding of the proposal's content, goals, and strategy.
• Awareness of the organization's past proposal successes and failures.
• Participates in proposal defense meetings and presentations.
• Able to addresses questions and objections confidently and professionally.
• Collaborates with team members to prepare responses to potential issues and offers insights and suggestions to improve proposal defense strategies.

Proposal Design:

• Good proficiency in proposal writing techniques, including structuring and formatting with understanding of the organization's products, services, and industry.
• Able to develop complete proposal with moderate complexity.
• Writes clear and persuasive proposal content while assist in proposal editing and proof-reading.
• Collaborates effectively with subject matter experts and other team members.
• Can contribute to proposal strategy discussions.

Emerging Technologies:

• Develops emerging technology adoption strategies, makes decisions related to emerging technology architecture and design.
• Identifies and implements emerging technologies that optimize business value.

Product/Technology Knowledge:

• Implement code or configure/customize products, drive adoption of industry standards and practices, and contribute to development of reusable assets and innovative solutions.
• Work on complex modules independently.
• Analyse various frameworks/tools and present recommendations, contribute to development of training and certification material, and demonstrate thought leadership through whitepapers and webinars.

Architecture tools and frameworks:

• Has expert knowledge of architecture Industry tools & frameworks with accreditation/certification in the relevant areas
• Ability to tailor architectural methods, tools selection & customization as per need.
• Can independently make decisions in tool selection process and provide future direction for tools and framework selection.

Architecture concepts and principles:

• Provides deep subject matter expertise, advice for the program delivery.
• Contributes to the development of new techniques and plans within area of expertise.
• Establish Architectural principles & patterns.
• Conduct technical & design reviews.
• Use advanced tools to capture and analyse system / technical issues.

Requirement Gathering and Analysis:

• In-depth understanding of requirement gathering and analysis concepts and terminology.
• Able to independently conduct complex analysis of requirements, such as identifying risks and trade-offs.
• Able to facilitate requirement gathering workshops and interviews and are skilled in creating and reviewing comprehensive requirement documents.

Solution Design:

• Develops solution design strategies, makes decisions related to solution architecture design and implementation.
• Able to develops and implements solution design methodologies across the organization.

Required Behavioral Competencies

Accountability:

• Being a role model for taking initiative and ensuring others take initiative, removing obstacles for others, taking ownership for results and deadlines for self and others, and acting as a role model for being responsible.

 Collaboration:

• Leads team activities that support collaboration. Determines common goals and shares responsibilities for results; begins to build partnerships across groups.

 Customer Focus:

• Understands the client, market and economic trends to establish ways of creating value of existing and new customer aligned to organizational imperatives.

Leadership Competencies as Applicable:

Vision Alignment:

• Create action plan based on Business objectives.
• Manages all the internal and external issues that may affect the organization's vision, mission and objectives.
• Leads & directs a strategic planning team to address & outline the future direction of Department.
• Prioritize the work based on Department’s priority.
• Demonstrates a "can do" attitude and is willing to stretch self to achieve and exceed defined goals/targets.

Decision Making:

• Considers impact on the directly involved parties while making decisions.
• Knows how to analyze difficulties down to their root.
• Demonstrated ability to take timely decisions when clear guidelines & process are defined.
• Takes ownership for and ensures accuracy of own work, meets deadlines, and asks questions about possible gaps to ensure clarity of ownership.

Coaching Mindset:

• Actively seeks inputs/feedback from his superior and peers, to
• identify opportunities for improving his own performance and capability.
• Works with team to implement the learnings.

Change Advocate:

• Considers innovative ideas provided by others.
• Adapts the change effectively using quality control systems & methods.
• Implements cutting edge ideas to develop business unit services.
• Demonstrates the willingness to work through the change transition.
• Effectively communicates the plan of Change.

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