Solution Architect - Marketing Cloud

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Job Category Customer Success Group

Job Details

As a key member of our Marketing Cloud Professional Services team, a Solution Architect is an experienced, strategic consultant, who can lead our key customer engagements! They understand and translate business and technical requirements, into comprehensive solutions, and advise our customers using their industry experience and deep functional knowledge of Marketing Cloud. They do this by collaborating closely with our customers, as well as our strategic and technical architect team members to assess, design, document and recommend solution options based on standard methodologies, customer objectives, proactive risk management, and constraints.

Solution Architects are strong presenters and facilitators, with the ability to drive and deliver to an outcome! They are proficient at analysing issues and obstacles, provide informed recommendations, and choose appropriate courses of actions. They are also passionate about contributing to thought leadership and best practices - both internally in our Community and externally in the marketplace.

Responsibilities

• Lead consultative engagements with customers on the technical and business challenges related to their digital marketing initiatives.
• Complete Solution ownership from requirements gathering to solution delivery working with variety of technical / non technical partners, including business process mapping and gap analysis.
• Build, lead and present an actionable business requirements document /blueprint that aligns a customer’s business needs to Salesforce Marketing Cloud & associated products.
• Present high-level overviews of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud architecture and integration capabilities.
• Conducts solutions presentations and obtains customer acceptance to solution design. Guides customer through Solution deployment
• Create architecture diagrams and flow charts on both system architecture and detailed solution levels.
• Provide thought-leadership to our clients on digital marketing domain and modern marketing operation
• Managing 1-4 concurrent client engagements and work with associated team members.
• Actively participate in the community delivering reusable assets, success stories and helping the community grow.
• Support Account Executives and Go To Market teams with sales opportunities by validating solutions & seeing opportunities in existing accounts.
• Travels to client sites for onsite discovery and solutions presentations. Not expected to exceed 25%

Requirements

• Demonstrable customer-facing consulting experience of solution design & technical delivery of Software As A Service platforms / equivalent.
• Experience leading customer facing discovery sessions to conceptualise and design complex business solutions.
• Experience documenting customer problems and software solutions using business requirement document(s), wireframes, diagrams, workflows and mockups.
• Excellent presentation and verbal skills with technical, non-technical, end-user, and executive audiences
• Familiarity with HTML, XML, CSS and JavaScript
• Solid understanding of SOAP APIs, REST APIs and integration architectures.
• Familiarity with Software Development Life Cycle methodologies including requirements, design, implementation, testing and maintenance
• Experience with Marketing Cloud implementations, with 2+ years direct experience on the platform
• Past experience with writing light-weight MS SQL and AMPscript preferred
• A positive “Yes I can” attitude
• Great communication & diagramming skills
• Proven results leading customer and/or partner success stories

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Relevant Salesforce certifications and consulting experience are strongly recommended
• Marketing Cloud certifications strongly preferred (Marketing Cloud Email Specialist, Marketing Cloud Consultant). Similar certifications against other MAPs a plus (IBM/Unica, SAS, Adobe, Oracle, Teradata)
• Related experience with Salesforce CRM (Sales, Service, Community) preferred
• Familiarity with Agile project delivery methodology, ceremonies and tools
• Adaptable to frequent changes and ambiguity as we evolve and grow our practice
• Understanding of sales process and methodologies preferred
• Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).

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