# Solution Architect

**Company**: Salesforce
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $123,100 - $273,000 annually
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Salesforce Professional Services is hiring Solution Architects to join the Missionforce team. As a Solution Architect, you will provide steady architectural leadership across large and complex engagements and partner with executive and delivery stakeholders to co-create and execute solution visions for our most complex customers in the Defense & National Security space.

**Your Impact**

- Serve as a trusted advisor to the client

- Identify and lead internal strategic initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serve as an active contributor to the community’s overall knowledge base and expertise

- Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value

- 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 Requirements**

- 8+ years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture or consulting experience on the Salesforce Platform throughout the whole life cycle with repeated and demonstrable success.

- Expert in Salesforce configuration and architectural strategy, translating current-state complexity into clear target-state designs, closing capability gaps, and delivering solutions that enable achievement of critical business and mission 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

- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience

- A great listener with the ability to connect with people in diverse roles

- Resourceful and innovative thinker who can work through and solve problems.

**Preferred Requirements**

- Metro DC located

- Active Clearance (Secret, TS, TS/SCI or TS/SCI with Poly)

- Multiple Salesforce Core Architecture certifications

- Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

- Experience in public sector digital transformation initiatives

- Hands-on experience with Public Sector Solutions (“Agentforce Public Sector”)

- Ability to convey and convince customers of best practices at various levels within a large organization

- Application design and development background

- Travel may be required and varies depending on the client requirements

**Benefits**

- Time off programs

- Medical, dental, vision

- Mental health support

- Paid parental leave

- Life and disability insurance

- 401(k)

- Employee stock purchasing program

## Skills

### Required
- Salesforce configuration
- architectural strategy
- enterprise architecture
- consulting
- Salesforce Platform
- presentation skills
- communication skills
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- Public Sector Solutions
- Agentforce Public Sector
- Salesforce Core Architecture certifications
- application design and development

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