Lead Enterprise Architect - Herndon, United States - Salesforce

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Department Description:
Computable Insights LLC, referred to as "Salesforce National Security"(SNS), is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Salesforce. SNS is Salesforce's contracting entity dedicated to the US Intelligence Community and US National Security market, and in this capacity is a major component of Salesforce's Global Public Sector. Salesforce Global Public Sector has dedicated teams supporting Federal Civilian Agencies, State & Local Agencies, the Department of Defense, and Government Contractors in addition to SNS.

As an SNS Enterprise Architect, you would be a key member of a team responsible for generating new business and nurturing existing business with specified US Intelligence Community customers.

Impact and Role Description:

Impact:
An Enterprise Architect is a customer-facing enterprise-wide expert with broad technical skills, deep industry knowledge, and unparalleled business acumen. The Enterprise Architect supports sales teams in developing Salesforce value propositions that align with our customers' business strategies on digital transformation and cloud adoption. The Enterprise Architect is a subject matter expert in one or more categories that may include: business strategy, application architecture, data & information, integration, security, cloud computing, distributed platforms, mobile, and analytics. Enterprise Architects are expected to have strong sales skills and use proven consultative approaches to engage with customers and define their transformation journey along with steps to get there.

You will collaborate with your teammates and work closely with your customers as a trusted advisor to deeply understand their unique challenges and goals. You will consult with customers on the value of them using Salesforce Platform and evangelize solutions that will help them reach their goals and blaze new trails within their organizations. You will contribute to our business growth in a fast paced, collaborative and fun atmosphere, as a valued member of our team focused on the National Security market.

Lead Enterprise Architect Role Highlights and Impact:

• Acts as a trusted advisor to CIO/CTO/EA level contacts and their teams as they look to move their business to a cloud architecture
• Accelerates digital transformation of our customers by building trusted relationships with business and IT leadership, leveraging industry knowledge, architecture offerings, and EA methodology
• Creates transformation roadmaps and future state architectures by applying a consultative approach to solving customer business problems, incorporating Salesforce technologies and solutions.
• Determine which Salesforce and third-party technologies to leverage in customer's IT architecture landscape, based upon product knowledge, industry experience, industry standard EA frameworks, and Salesforce EA methodologies.
• Clearly articulates business architecture (mission/vision, capability models, capability assessments) and technical architecture (current and future state diagrams, solution best practices, reference architectures, design patterns).
• Involved in strategic engagements to drive multi-cloud opportunities.
• Assists sales teams in responses to RFPs and technical requirements documents
• Travels to customer engagements. This position will support multiple customers and account teams.
• Participates in all appropriate product/sales training, certifications, educational sessions and industry summits to acquire and maintain the knowledge necessary to be effective in the position.
• Shares engagement experience with the internal audiences and enrich collective IP. Conduct architecture workshops and other enablement sessions. Mentor and guide junior enterprise architects.
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience in either software, system or enterprise architecture disciplines
• Good understanding of and ability to discuss cloud architecture and principles of modern platforms including SaaS, PaaS, multi-tenancy, multi-tiered infrastructure, etc.
• Good understanding of enterprise application integration technologies as well as common EA topics such as person based journeys, process orchestration, master data management, analytics and insights, artificial intelligence, etc.
• Good understanding of security processes, standards & issues involved in multi-tier cloud or hybrid applications
• Familiar with principles of network, application and information security
• Articulate and balanced in demeanor with crisp written and verbal communication skills
• Working knowledge of Salesforce's platform capabilities, hosting infrastructure, security and integration capabilities
• Certified Salesforce Administrator or equivalent experience
• This candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) who does not hold dual citizenship and agrees to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position. Qualification for this job is contingent upon acceptable results from a background investigation and maintaining the specific level U.S. government background investigation required for this role. All offers of employment are contingent upon Government approval of your TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance.
• Current TS/SCI Clearance
  
  Preferred Qualifications:
• 2-3 years in a pre-sales role or customer-facing consultative role with the US Intelligence Community
• Advanced Degree
• Additional Salesforce Certifications
• Experience with and deep understanding of key business drivers and technical architecture
• Experience with and exposure to architectural frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, etc.
• Familiar with design thinking and similar principles
• Familiar with relevant (regional, vertical, etc.) data privacy, risk management, and compliance requirements
  

We are looking for the following attributes:

• Compelling Communicator
• Customer Discovery skills
• Teaming (internal and external)
• Consultative Selling Mindset
• Change Management
• EA Domain Knowledge
• IC Domain Knowledge
• Digital Transformation

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