Life Science Principal Architect Sr. Director

Salesforce • New York, NY

109d • $251,900 - $384,100

About The Position

Salesforce Professional Services helps customers transform and build what’s next for business - with technology. We seek experienced strategic architect leaders with proven success who can lead our customers to transform business, operations, and technology to drive business outcomes in the Life Sciences Industry. As trusted advisors, architects will cultivate and oversee executive customer relationships and delivery of transformative programs with our most strategic customers, partners, and business delivery leaders. The ideal candidates will bring a diverse IT and/or Management Consulting background and knowledge of industry trends, leveraging this credibility as strategic advisors to our customers, partners, and internal teams across Salesforce. Candidates will have deep Salesforce, cross cloud technology expertise and the ability to craft innovative, forward-looking strategies leveraging that technology to realize business results in the context of a customer's broader enterprise architecture strategy. In this role, the architect will be the voice of the customer to shape and execute a strategy to build mind-share and broad adoption of Salesforce technologies within the Life Sciences Industry. Critical to the role is the ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges as you drive customers’ efficiencies, cost savings, and quick innovation available on the Salesforce platform.

Requirements

• 10+ years experience leading enterprise-level technology transformation programs with Fortune 500 companies.
• 10+ years of relevant consulting experience in professional services.
• 10+ years of experience leading, managing, coaching, and developing staff.
• 8+ years of experience with Cloud and cloud based technologies.
• 8+ years of experience with the Life Sciences industry.
• 8+ years of experience with data architecture.
• 8+ years in System to System integration and distributed architectures.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience working with customers to understand and solve their business challenges.
• Significant experience managing C-suite relationships at customers.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of the concepts, practices, procedures, and deliverables associated with system development.
• Executive-level communication and presentation skills.
• Significant experience in understanding security, compliance, and building scalable application architectures.
• Knowledge of Design Thinking and human-centered change processes.

Responsibilities

• Support GTM Partners by actively participating in the pursuit process in support of Services Sellers for large scale deals.
• Work cross-functionally within Salesforce to ensure alignment with customer objectives.
• Ensure the technical architecture is optimized to achieve the most elegant client solution.
• Oversee the solution and technical architecture of complex/large customers.
• Serve in a billable capacity as a lead architect during discovery and development.
• Identify and mitigate architectural risks associated with projects.
• Provide architectural guidance and support to project teams, including developers, administrators, and business stakeholders.
• Advise customers on overall enterprise architecture and assist in developing architectural strategy.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of requirements and assess feasibility of various solutions.
• Lead, inspire, coach, and develop other Salesforce Professional Services team members.
• Ensure compliance with industry regulations and standards.
• Participate in the continued development of internal processes, artifacts, and methodologies.

Benefits

• Time off programs.
• Medical, dental, vision, mental health support.
• Paid parental leave.
• Life and disability insurance.
• 401(k).
• Employee stock purchasing program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees