Salesforce Senior Technical Architect; Senior Manager, Technology

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organisations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Salesforce Senior Technical Architects are Salesforce platform experts who can take the puzzle-pieces that are a client’s business requirements, and design masterpiece solutions. Creativity in problem solving as well as being an excellent listener are probably the most emphasised facets of a Salesforce Senior Technical Architect.

Your Impact

• Identifying how a client’s architecture fits together and providing strategic and technical advice
• Understanding business and technical requirements and translating these into technical solutions
• Analysing business processes and identifying alternative solutions, assessing feasibility and recommending new approaches typically seeking to exploit new technology components.
• Modelling processes, architecture, data structures and information required to support Publicis Sapient and their clients’ projects
• Leading the review and creation of an information systems strategy
• Developing enterprise-grade architecture and processes which truly utilise and realise the value of  application technology
• Ensuring both business strategy and technological direction is aligned
• Taking a collaborative role in developing and enforcing Publicis Sapient set of architecture and development libraries and whitepapers
• Setting standards for programming tools and techniques and advise on their application and compliance
• Supporting project managers in all stages of the software development process
• Assigning work through the correct communication channels to technical consultants and monitor performance providing advice, guidance and assistance

Your skills & experience

• • Extensive experience working as a Salesforce Technical Architect with large size customers including solving Enterprise Architectural challenges
  • Comfortable advising, mentoring, educating and influencing diverse teams on topics including Data Management, Integration, Security, Application Design as they relate to the Salesforce Platform
  • Demonstrable senior stakeholder management skills and experience
  • Proven aptitude to rapidly learn new technologies
  • Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
  • Solid presentation and facilitation skills
  • Proven leadership and consulting skills to build trust relationship with customers
  • Ability to lead a range of workshops e.g. Discovery, Solution Design and Delivery
  • Certified Application Architect and/or Certified System Architect
  • Hands-on delivery skills
  • Able to mentor talented individuals as part of a defined career framework
  • Eagerness to co-def ine and deliver advisory sessions for strategic initiatives
  • Help towards the development of the practice and build reusable frameworks
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a distributed team and a willingness to take ownership of problems
  • Bachelor's degree in a technical or business management field

Set yourself apart with

• • Experience working with Financial Services sector
  • Design and development experience with alternative software platforms and programming languages
  • Examples of where you have striven for product stability by balancing the optimal amountsof Salesforce configuration and custom code to solutions
  • Examples of re-using custom built frameworks in Salesforce to save time, cost or reduce risk (including creation of Accelerators)

Our hybrid work policy requires employees to be present in the office or at client sites for a minimum of 3 days per week (4 days for VP+). We trust our…