Description
Job Description
Role: Salesforce- Customer Support Architect
Location: Paris,France
Type: Contract
Key Responsibilities
- The Customer Support Architect is responsible for the architecture integrity and maintain the vision of the offering from an architectural perspective.
- Be a go-to person for the case management solution and architecture
- Work closely with customer support capability owner to ensure Architecture is aligned with business stakeholders goals and expectations.
- Work closely Developers, Solution Experts, Platform Owners, platform Architect, Infrastructure, PMO, etc. to define and implement elegant, scalable and sustainable solutions on customer support capability.
- Participate to the design and implementation of innovative customer support solutions with a focus on adhering to EA standards, best practices and code quality techniques.
- Draw and Validate customer support capability Architecture based on the business requirements, constraints, operating model and architectures principles and standards.
- Validate, refine, and expand the customer support Architecture from existing to target by verifying assumptions in order to improve the model and to further define it, adding as necessary new ideas to make the result more flexible and more tightly linked to current and expected requirements.
- The customer support architect additionally should assess the value of solution-enhancing developments emanating from field work and incorporate these into the architecture models as appropriate.
- Stay current on releases, new features, product roadmaps and applications available from 3rd parties on the Salesforce platform and stay current on emerging technologies in the areas of customer support solutions.
- Partner with other architects, vendors, partners, business and technical teams to understand customer support business needs and translate them into features roadmaps and work toward realizing the roadmaps.
- Contribute with the platform Architect and platform Owners to the Alignment and prioritization of customer support demands from capability owner and any other stakeholders.
- Effective involvement in each gate of customer support project/Program to supervise the architecture area and promote the relevant architecture standards and ensure they are enforced. Escalating gaps to practice architect and validate the Do Gate of any project.
- Participate actively to the different architectures communities organized by EA team and prepare and animate the architecture studies related to the capability.
- Contribute to the innovation communities, conduct industry and market research and maintain a working knowledge of technologies and general themes related to the capability.
Knowledge/Skills/Experience
- Broad exposure to customer support and Service bureau business and salesforce solutions with many years of combined business and IT experience.
- Strong architecture experience across various customer support solutions and good exposure to Salesforce platform with In-depth understanding of Salesforce technologies (clouds, offerings, custom development, integration, etc.).
- Good Experience in integrating salesforce with 3rd party systems using web services and APIs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills - Ability to explain complex technical issues in a way that non-technical people may understand.
- Certified in one of Salesforce Architect certification or TOGAF certification (Deep understanding of TOGAF framework and SOW architecture).
- Possess knowledge of enterprise architecture, architecture patterns and related domains including but not limited to application and component, technology, platform, security, data and business architecture domains