Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organisations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Your Impact

 Identifying how a client’s architecture fits together and providing strategic and technical advice

• Understanding business and technical requirements and translating these into technical solutions
• Analysing business processes and identifying alternative solutions, assessing feasibility an recommending new approaches typically seeking to exploit new technology components.
• Modelling processes, architecture, data structures and information required to support Publicis Sapient and their clients projects
• Leading the review and creation of an information systems strategy
• Developing enterprise-grade information architecture and processes which truly utilise and realise
• the value of salesforce.com application technology
• Ensuring both business strategy and technological direction is aligned
• Taking a collaborative role in developing and enforcing Publicis Sapient’s set of architecture and development libraries and whitepapers
• Setting standards for programming tools and techniques and advise on their application and
• compliance
• Supporting project managers in all stages of the software development process
• Assigning work through the correct communication channels to technical consultants and monitor performance providing advice, guidance and assistance

Your Role

Salesforce Technical Architects are Salesforce platform experts who can take the puzzle-pieces that are a client’s business requirements, and design masterpiece solutions. Creativity in problem solving as well as being an excellent listener are probably the most emphasised facets of a Salesforce Technical Architect.

Your skills & experience

• Extensive experience working as a Salesforce Technical Architect
• Demonstrable senior stakeholder management skills and experience
• Proven aptitude to rapidly learn new technologies 
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
• Solid presentation and facilitation skills
• Proven leadership and consulting skills to build trust relationship with customers
• Ability to lead a range of workshops e.g. Discovery, Solution Design and Delivery
• Hands-on delivery skills
• Able to mentor talented individuals as part of a defined career framework
• Eagerness to co-define and deliver advisory sessions for strategic initiatives
• Help towards the development of the practice and build reusable frameworks
• Ability to work independently and as part of a distributed team and a willingness to take ownership of problems
• Previous experience as a developer in Apex, Visualforce and SOQL
• Experience working in an Agile project environment

Set yourself apart with

• Experience working with Heroku
• Experience working with other development platforms
• Salesforce Architect Certifications (or experience and the desire to complete your certification)

Benefits

• We have got you and your family covered with 25 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), life assurance, dental insurance, income protection, critical illness cover, private healthcare for you AND your family (pre-existing conditions included), and a pension
• We know the importance of health and wellbeing so offer you extensive retail discount offers and further reimbursement towards activities that contribute to a healthier lifestyle
• We are proud to actively invest in your learning through various learning platforms
• Diversity and inclusion aren't just buzzwords. We offer an inclusive environment through our inspirational business resource groups and work with you to give back to the local community through CSR effort