Technical Architect / Senior Technical Architect – Missionforce
Salesforce
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About the opportunity
Salesforce Professional Services is hiring Technical Architects to join the Missionforce team.
As a Technical Architect, you will serve as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform expert to the company's largest and most complex customers in the Defense and National Security space.
The Technical Architect / Senior Technical Architect plays a pivotal role in both presales and implementation, shaping, scoping, and solutioning engagements to set customers up for success.
This leader provides technical oversight and execution leadership on large-scale and mission-critical engagements while also serving as a trusted mentor to Salesforce teams and Federal clients.
Key responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the client and work directly with clients to architect technology solutions to meet client needs.
- Identify and lead internal critical initiatives to grow the consulting practice, serving 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.
- Communicate complex concepts clearly using strong presentation, writing, and verbal skills with prescriptive thinking.
- Identify and proactively manage risk areas, committing to seeing issues through to complete resolution.
- Manage customer expectations and negotiate solutions to complex problems with both customers and third-party partners.
- Review and correct project and program direction, approach, and key artifacts to ensure solutions are extendable and maintainable.
- Contribute to a program vision while advising and articulating program and project strategies on enabling technologies including the Salesforce Platform.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of enterprise architecture or consulting experience on the Salesforce Platform.
- Strong application design skills combined with strong data, integration, and security architecture skills.
- Strong presentation skills with the ability to effectively present and defend a point of view to a variety of audiences.
- Thorough individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop audience-appropriate materials.
- Great listener with the ability to connect with people in diverse roles, and a resourceful, innovative thinker.
- Proven ability to analyze, design, and optimize business processes via technology and integration.
- U.S. citizenship (U.S. born or naturalized) without dual citizenship, with agreement to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position and obtain required U.S. Government security clearance.
Nice to have
- Metro DC located.
- Active Clearance (Secret, TS, TS/SCI or TS/SCI with Poly).
- Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) or multiple Salesforce Architecture certifications.
- Degree or equivalent relevant experience required, evaluated based on core competencies such as military, volunteer, or work experience.
- Experience in public sector digital transformation initiatives.
Benefits
- Time off programs
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Mental health support
- Paid parental leave
- Life and disability insurance
- Employee stock purchasing program
- Additional details available at https://www.salesforcebenefits.com
Job Category
Customer Success
- Location: United States (Metro DC and other locations)
Typical Base Salary Range
- $148,500 - $260,100 annually (Base pay range for California, New York, and select metropolitan areas including Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and Washington DC is $178,900 - $285,800 per year)
Additional Compensation
- May be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits depending on the role.
About the company
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together.
The company combines ambition with action, tech with trust, and innovation as a way of life, leading workforce transformation in the agentic era.
Salesforce Professional Services delivers strategic guidance and implementation excellence to the world's most complex organizations.
Additional information
Candidates should consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months.
Salesforce uses AI tools to assist recruiters in assessing resumes, but humans make all hiring and selection decisions.
Reasonable accommodations during the application process can be requested via the Accommodations Request Form.
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Key details from the source
- Hands-on experience with Public Sector Solutions (Agentforce Public Sector).
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