Sr. Solution Architect

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.Job CategoryCustomer SuccessJob DetailsAbout SalesforceSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.The Sr. Solution Architect leads one or more workstreams in sophisticated enterprise customer engagements, partnering with key collaborators to drive and achieve the vision while completing key deliverables. They serve as hands-on advisors, using strong communication skills, solution and/or technical knowledge, Salesforce product knowledge, industry experience, consulting experience, and knowledge of their client’s business to deliver customer return on investment. Solution Architects are strong presenters and facilitators that are able to co-create the vision and own the execution with the customer as well as acquire customer acceptance of the delivered solution. They are capable of driving difficult conversations and removing roadblocks to implement the business strategies. They are proficient at analyzing issues and obstacles to resolve root cause, and can identify appropriate corrective action. They connect with technical and business customers from all levels through C-suite. On a day to day basis, they interact with customer product owner, business process owner and technical resources to understand requirements, analyze information, and craft comprehensive solutions. They also show a strong understanding of typical business challenges or common objectives faced by customers within the industry. Solution Architects are stewards of the Professional Services Methodology. They engage with Customer Success and Product teams to ensure the solutions are driving the most effective achievement of the value objectives. Solution Architects supply to thought leadership and standard methodologies by engaging with the cloud-specific practices teams. They will chip in both internally in their Community and externally in the marketplace. YOUR IMPACT: Responsibilities Salesforce Professional Services is looking for a Sr. Solution Architect with Consumer Goods Cloud experience. As a Sr. Solution Architect, you will be serving as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform expert to the company’s largest, most complex enterprise customers. Here are some salient responsibilities the role entails -Serve as a trusted advisor to the clientGuide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business valueGuiding agents to support deliveryWork collaboratively and having very strong communications skills, especially in teaching complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking across various levels of a client organizationIdentify and proactively manage risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolutionManage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party partnersReview and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forwardDrive 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 success3+ years experience in Consumer Goods with practical CG cloud experience and deep understanding of Retail Execution and Trade Promotion ManagementExtensive experience with configuration and customization on the Salesforce platformAbility to drive agentic delivery, with experience in AI toolchains (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 outcomesExperience leading discovery sessions, defining business requirements, writing user stories and providing detailed system and functional designsExperience 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 d