Salesforce Enterprise Architect 

Italy, Lazio, Rome 

902644588

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Trustworthy and AuthenticYou listen and respond transparently, building trust and becoming a valued advisor.

You respond to setbacks in the moment, and use your experiences to anticipate potential setbacks on the horizon.

You have subject matter experience in categories that may include: business strategy, application architecture, application integration, security, cloud computing, distributed platforms, mobile platforms, and businessintelligence/analytics.With a solid blend of technical and sales skills you use a consultative approach to understand business and technical requirements.

• Partner with account executives and solution engineers to advance opportunities through discovery workshops, enablement sessions, and architecture presentations; includes ~25% travel.

• Define customer-driven architectures by selecting appropriate Salesforce technologies, leveraging product expertise, industry experience, EA frameworks, and Salesforce methodologies. Develop and communicate business architecture (vision, capability models/assessments) and technical architecture (current/future state diagrams, roadmaps, design patterns, and reference architectures) to progress sales opportunities

• Apply broad IT expertise—including solution and technical architecture, systems engineering, cloud, governance, and SDLC—to lead discussions on business and technical transformation.

• Support sales teams by contributing to RFP responses and technical requirement documents.

• At sponsored events, deliver best practices, reference architectures, and educational content for customers, partners, and Salesforce teams; collaborate cross-functionally with alliances, product, and industry groups.

• Stay current through required product, sales, and procedural training and certifications.

• Lead technical due diligence and risk management for customer engagements.

• Meet assigned quarterly and annual performance objectives.

• You understand and speak the language of the business, and help bridge between business requirements and Salesforce capabilities

• You are a trusted advisor to CIO/CTO/EA level contacts and their teams as they look to move or expand their business to a cloud architecture

• You earn the trust of prospects' and customers’ CISO/CSO/Chief Risk Officer and similar

• You become a true asset to Salesforce due to broad and deep knowledge of business and technical architecture across all relevant domains

• You drive product vision and direction by helping advise our Product Management on key capabilities
  

• Experience working with Salesforce solutions and the Salesforce Platform

• B.S. Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent work experience

• 5+ years experience in either enterprise software implementation, system integration or enterprise architecture disciplines

• Conversational and written fluency in English, and preferably another south European language - Italian, French, or Spanish.

• Good understanding of the architectural principles of cloud based platforms including SaaS, PaaS, multitenancy, multi-tiered infrastructure, etc.

• Good understanding of the security processes, standards & issues involved in multi-tier cloud or hybrid applications

• Familiar with principles of network, application and information security

• Conceptual and tactical understanding of enterprise application integration such as SOA, ESB, EAI, ETL environments and common EA topics such as process orchestration, BPM, CEP, Master Data Management, BI/BA, etc.

• Able to grasp leading edge technologies such as generative and predictive Artificial Intelligence, BlockChain, Robotics Process Automation, etc.

• Articulate and balanced in demeanor with crisp written and verbal communication skills
  

• Salesforce related implementation experience (Force.com, Apex, Java or C#, JavaScript), mobile development, modern frameworks, REST, SOAP/WSDL, and API-driven integration

• Familiar with AI technologies, particularly Salesforce Agentforce AI and Salesforce Einstein

• Experience with architectural frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, etc.

• Familiar with Design Thinking, Agile development and similar concepts and frameworks

• Familiar with relevant (regional, vertical, etc.) data privacy and security compliance (EU GDPR, US FedRAMP, US DoD ILx, Canada Protected B/C) requirements

• Familiar with third party Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Providers such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

• Familiar with solution selling, experience in sales/pre-sales a plus

• Familiar with Salesforce Industry solutions such as Public Sector Solutions, Education Cloud, Health Cloud, Financial Services Cloud

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