Slalom Consulting
Salesforce Enterprise Architect - Global Salesforce
Slalom Consulting, Chicago, IL
Who You'll Work With
In our Salesforce business, we help our clients bring the most impactful customer experiences to life and we do that in a way that makes our clients the hero of their transformation story. We are passionate about and dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive team, recognizing that diverse team members who are celebrated for bringing their authentic selves to their work build solutions that reach more diverse populations in innovative and impactful ways. Our team is comprised of customer strategy experts, Salesforce-certified experts across all Salesforce capabilities, industry experts, organizational and cultural change consultants, and project delivery leaders. As the 3rd largest Salesforce partner globally and in North America, we are committed to growing and developing our Salesforce talent, offering continued growth opportunities, and exposing our people to meaningful work that aligns to their personal and professional goals. In addition to leveraging this standard paragraph, make updates for additional local team and role information.
Job Title: Salesforce Enterprise Architect
Slalom is seeking a Salesforce Enterprise Architect capable of bringing to life the art of the possible for our clients. A passion for building strategies, solutions, and creative designs to help our clients solve their most complex and interesting business problems is a must. As a Salesforce Enterprise Architect, you will embrace emerging technologies, dive into interesting challenges, and guide innovative minds.
In addition to helping expand and develop our enterprise architecture capabilities, you will be responsible for creating and owning technical visions and roadmaps for our client's most strategic programs and projects. This includes serving as a trusted advisor, driving the following:
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
About Us
Slalom is a purpose-led, global business and technology consulting company. From strategy to implementation, our approach is fiercely human. In eight countries and 45 markets, we deeply understand our customers-and their customers-to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact. Backed by close partnerships with over 400 leading technology providers, our 13,000+ strong team helps people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all. We're honored to be consistently recognized as a great place to work, including being one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For seven years running. Learn more at slalom.com.
Compensation and Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position, the base salary pay range for the Principal role is $122,000- $225,000. For the Senior Delivery Principal role, the base salary pay range is $140,000 -$258,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.
EEO and Accommodations
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.
We will accept applications until November 1st, 2024.
In our Salesforce business, we help our clients bring the most impactful customer experiences to life and we do that in a way that makes our clients the hero of their transformation story. We are passionate about and dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive team, recognizing that diverse team members who are celebrated for bringing their authentic selves to their work build solutions that reach more diverse populations in innovative and impactful ways. Our team is comprised of customer strategy experts, Salesforce-certified experts across all Salesforce capabilities, industry experts, organizational and cultural change consultants, and project delivery leaders. As the 3rd largest Salesforce partner globally and in North America, we are committed to growing and developing our Salesforce talent, offering continued growth opportunities, and exposing our people to meaningful work that aligns to their personal and professional goals. In addition to leveraging this standard paragraph, make updates for additional local team and role information.
Job Title: Salesforce Enterprise Architect
Slalom is seeking a Salesforce Enterprise Architect capable of bringing to life the art of the possible for our clients. A passion for building strategies, solutions, and creative designs to help our clients solve their most complex and interesting business problems is a must. As a Salesforce Enterprise Architect, you will embrace emerging technologies, dive into interesting challenges, and guide innovative minds.
In addition to helping expand and develop our enterprise architecture capabilities, you will be responsible for creating and owning technical visions and roadmaps for our client's most strategic programs and projects. This includes serving as a trusted advisor, driving the following:
- Business Architecture
- Application Design & Integration
- Data Architecture
- Technology Architecture
- Security Architecture
Responsibilities:
- Advise clients on the overall enterprise architecture landscape on various solution architecture areas including technology, information, data, security, and integration.
- Collaborate with clients to define outcomes, craft enterprise-level technical designs/solutions, manage expectations, and drive implementations.
- Translate business requirements into well architected solutions that best leverage the Salesforce platform and its growing ecosystem, including cross-cloud integration.
- Produce target state solution architectures, perform architectural assessments, drive gap analysis, and help formulate overall solution strategies and roadmaps.
- Lead technical design sessions, document technical solutions aligned with client business objectives, and identify gaps between client's current and desired end-states.
- Assist with estimating technical work efforts required for each phase of a project.
- Plan and manage the implementation of custom development, integrations, and data migration elements of large, complex Salesforce implementations.
- Contribute to the growth of Slalom's Salesforce Enterprise Architecture capability by identifying and leading internal strategic initiatives, mentoring and developing other architects, and serving as an active contributor to knowledge base.
- Maintain a target billable utilization aligned to the role.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of CRM experience, the majority within the Salesforce ecosystem.
- Experience leading development teams through everyday project tasks and collaborating across multiple functional/technical teams to deliver a project.
- Experience in similar consulting roles and demonstrated track record of providing advisory services to organizations.
- Deep understanding of the Salesforce product suite, including sales, service, community, marketing, analytics, integration, and platform capabilities.
- Familiarity with sophisticated programming concepts including core design patterns, limits and bulk patterns, integration patterns, asynchronous operations, and effective testing methodologies.
- Ability to collaborate with client partners to define requirements, outcomes, and set expectations on tasks that you and your team will be responsible for executing.
- Experience defining systems architecture landscapes, identifying gaps in roadmaps to reach desired end-states, and delivering comprehensive solutions that enable achievement of the client's desired outcomes.
- Strong understanding of environment management, release management, and continuous integration/delivery methodologies.
- Ability to lead a team of solution designers and programmers; ability to lead design reviews to ensure quality and appropriate design patterns are followed.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills; able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience.
- Able to travel up to 50% (post-COVID).
About Us
Slalom is a purpose-led, global business and technology consulting company. From strategy to implementation, our approach is fiercely human. In eight countries and 45 markets, we deeply understand our customers-and their customers-to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact. Backed by close partnerships with over 400 leading technology providers, our 13,000+ strong team helps people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all. We're honored to be consistently recognized as a great place to work, including being one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For seven years running. Learn more at slalom.com.
Compensation and Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position, the base salary pay range for the Principal role is $122,000- $225,000. For the Senior Delivery Principal role, the base salary pay range is $140,000 -$258,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.
EEO and Accommodations
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.
We will accept applications until November 1st, 2024.