Senior Solution Consultant

Description

DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION

Salesforce Professional Services focuses on delivering strategic engagements that define transformational opportunities and articulate clear plans for execution of change programs. We rely on our team’s expertise and specialisms to engage with executive-level customers to agree on specific business goals and actions to ignite the full value of Salesforce. Our approach considers people, process, and technology — and a successful engagement includes recommendations to the business for change to support deeper, more relevant use of the Salesforce platform.

Salesforce Technical Consultants deliver solutions that transform our customers’ businesses and their customers’ experiences. This role involves working with teams to discover, design, code and deploy Salesforce Platform solutions.

OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE

Salesforce is currently seeking a Senior Technical Consultant to join our Professional Services team within the Customer Success Group (CSG). Senior Technical Consultants work as part of a team demonstrating technical thought leadership of customer and partner engagements. These lead to the successful delivery of solutions, including enterprise integrations using middleware tools and platforms. Through our extended onboarding program of formal certification, internal training, knowledge transfer, hands on experience and closely working with other Consultants, Architects and Project Managers you will become a Salesforce Domain Authority at the forefront of our offerings, delivering outstanding customer success.

Senior Technical Consultants are technically hands on with our products, and are responsible for evaluating and implementing technical solutions for customers.

The ideal Senior Technical Consultant is a demonstrated thought leader in technical aspects of customer and partner engagements that lead to the successful delivery of enterprise desktop, cloud, and/or mobile solutions, including enterprise integrations leveraging middleware tools and platforms. They also identify and proactively handle risk areas and contribute to seeing issues through to project completion.

YOUR IMPACT

• Become a highly certified and recognized Salesforce expert.
• Help clients consistently meet/exceed goals and metrics.
• Contribute to customer success through front and backend solution development and release management.
• Deliver high client satisfaction (CSAT).
• Provide guidance on the application and integration development best practices, Enterprise Architecture standards, functional and technical solution architecture & design, environment management, testing, and Salesforce Platform education.
• Drive the creation of application and technical design documents which leverage Salesforce best practices and effectively integrate Salesforce into the customer’s infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot key customer implementation issues and demonstrate the ability to drive to a successful resolution. Lead the evaluation of business and technical requirements from a senior level.
• Identification and proactive management of risk areas and commitment to seeing an issue through to complete resolution.
• Manage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party partners.
• Build relationships with business partners, internal and external, and contributing to broader goals and growth beyond the scope of a single customer engagement.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 years of experience minimum in IT space
• Hands‑on technical and solution implementation experience in a relevant software domain, as well as coding experience in object‑oriented languages.
• Ability to analyze, design, and optimize business processes via technology and integration.
• Ability to support customers and project members in rationalising and deploying emerging technology.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a distributed team.
• Ability to learn new technologies as well as good presentation, communication and facilitation skills.
• Available to travel regionally and occasionally internationally depending on customer needs.
• 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.)
• Proficiency in both English AND Italian languages
• Strong background in object‑oriented programming (e.g., Java) and understanding of REST/SOAP API design, microservices, and event‑driven architectures.