Enterprise Architect

As a Chief Customer Transformation Advisor (CCTA) at Salesforce, you will be a customer-facing enterprise-wide expert with broad technical skills, deep industry knowledge, and unparalleled business acumen. Your role will involve supporting sales teams in developing Salesforce value propositions aligned with customers" business strategies on digital transformation and cloud adoption. You will be a subject matter expert in various categories such as business strategy, application architecture, data & information, integration, security, cloud computing, distributed platforms, mobile, and analytics. Your strong sales skills and proven consultative approaches will be pivotal in engaging with customers and defining their transformation journey. Your key responsibilities as a CCTA will include: - Assisting customers in business planning and strategy by focusing on business capabilities and maturity, matching customer needs with best-in-class technology to define a north-star target state. - Helping to define the prioritization and sequencing of transformation by proposing a strategic roadmap leading to the target state, and leading discussions around change programs from both business and technical perspectives. - Determining which Salesforce and third-party technologies to leverage in the customer's architecture landscape based on product knowledge, industry experience, and Salesforce EA methodologies. - Clearly articulating business architecture and technical architecture, providing reliable points of view on relatable customer transformations in the industry, and assisting sales teams in responses to RFPs and technical requirements documents. - Traveling to customer engagements, actively engaging with account executives and solution engineers, participating in product/sales training, and sharing engagement experiences with internal audiences. Your impact will be as a trusted advisor to CIO/CTO/EA level contacts and their teams, acting as the Account CTO, and contributing your broad and deep knowledge of business and technical architecture across all relevant domains. Qualifications required for this role are: - B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, or equivalent. - 10+ years of experience in software, system, or enterprise architecture disciplines. - Good understanding and ability to discuss cloud architecture, principles of modern platforms, enterprise application integration technologies, common EA topics, and security processes. - Familiarity with industry or vertical solutions, network, application, and information security, and articulate communication skills. Preferred qualifications include: - 10+ years in a pre-sales or customer-facing consultative role. - Experience with key business drivers and technical architecture, knowledge of Salesforce's platform capabilities, design thinking principles, and data privacy compliance requirements. - Business Value Engineering experience is a plus.,