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Senior Solution Architect, Retail Execution​/Trade Promotion Management

Job in South Naperville Area, Will County, Illinois, 60564, USA
Listing for: salesforce.com, inc.
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-07-09
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    IT Consultant
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 150100 - 227000 USD Yearly USD 150100.00 227000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

As a Sr. Solution Architect, you will serve as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform expert to the company's largest, most complex enterprise customers.

Responsibilities
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to the client
  • Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value
  • Guiding agents to support delivery
  • Work collaboratively and having very strong communications skills, especially in teaching complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking across various levels of a client organization
  • Identify and proactively manage risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution
  • Manage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third‑party partners
  • Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forward
  • Drive a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies to enable technologies including the Salesforce platform
Minimum Qualifications
  • 10+ years of relevant experience in enterprise‑level projects using both waterfall and agile software development methodologies throughout the whole life cycle with repeated and demonstrable success
  • 3+ years experience in Consumer Goods with practical CG cloud experience and deep understanding of Retail Execution and Trade Promotion Management
  • Extensive experience with configuration and customization on the Salesforce platform
  • Ability to drive agentic delivery, with experience in AI tool chains (eg. Claude, Cursor, Elements Cloud, etc.)
  • Expert level experience defining the system architecture landscape, identifying gaps between current and desired end‑states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will enable achievement of the desired business outcomes
  • Experience leading discovery sessions, defining business requirements, writing user stories and providing detailed system and functional designs
  • Experience in documenting business processes and wire‑framing system designs using process flow diagram tools, UML, sequence diagrams, etc. as well as making recommendations for future state improved processes and system designs
  • Strong presentation skills; able to effectively present a point of view and clearly articulate the rationale to a variety of stakeholders
  • Detail‑oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal; able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience
  • Must be a team player as demonstrated through a customer qualification of a large scale/enterprise implementation with multiple work streams
  • A great listener with the ability to communicate with people in diverse roles
  • Resourceful and innovative thinker who can work through and solve problems
  • Travel up to 50%
Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in a Technology, Engineering (any field) or a related quantitative discipline. Equivalent demonstrable work experience in lieu of a degree will be considered
  • Proven results in delivering high‑value business outcomes utilizing an agile approach
  • Proven results leading customer and/or partner success stories
  • Relevant Salesforce certifications & Accreditations (CG Cloud, REX Accreditation)
  • Consulting experience is strongly recommended
Benefits

In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well, including time‑off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock‑purchasing program.

The typical base salary range for this position is $150,100–$227,000 annually (base only).

Accommodations

If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via the accommodations request form.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Salesforce is an equal‑opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non‑discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. Applicants will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence, and qualifications—without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. The policy applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and all related matters.

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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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