Salesforce Technical Architect

We are looking for a highly effective Salesforce Technical Architect to join our Salesforce and GOM Practice. An individual filling this role will provide thought leadership and consultation throughout the life cycle of Salesforce implementation projects.

Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication Technology Company and a leading provider of IT products and services including hardware, software, networking, and business solutions to customers in more than 100 countries. We are known for our ability to harness the power of IT for our clients and to build innovative practices and solutions. At Fujitsu, you will find a dynamic work environment with multidisciplinary teams involved in stimulating projects.  Fujitsu is where you can pursue your full career potential.  We enable our employees to grow as individuals, mature as industry professionals and proudly succeed as key members of the Fujitsu team.  For more information on Fujitsu America's business scope, visit http://solutions.us.fujitsu.com/. Both US and Canadian candidates can be considered.

Work Style:

• Remote: Candidates may be based anywhere in the United States or Canada

Key Responsibilities:

Successful Client Engagements

• Facilitate discovery, fit gap sessions with customer to understand the AS-IS state and gaps between current state and to-be state as well as industry best practices
• Lead and support client engagements effectively, managing project scope, schedule, and overall quality of delivery from Salesforce platform and Salesforce Solution perspective
• Lead business process redesign, roadmap planning and sprint demos of Salesforce capabilities
• Collaborate with client stakeholders and Fujitsu Business and Functional consultants to define requirements, deliverables, and set and manage expectations
• Translate business requirements into well-architected solutions that best leverage the Salesforce platform
• Lead technical design sessions; Design and document technical architecture aligned with client business objectives; identify gaps between client's current and desired end states.
• Collaborate with various client business workstreams and application teams to create and support roadmap deliverables. 
• Configure/customize solution in client environment and oversee development by development team
• Drive assessment sessions of business objectives, formulating solution options, and driving stakeholder support
• Deliver artifacts, solution and delivery items using industry standards and best practices.
• Serve as the bridge/translator between the business team and technical resources during development and implementation to ensure that requirement, design and dependencies are well understood
• Assist in engagement and project management by identifying risks, opportunities, as well as partnering up with project and account management teams on minimizing the risks and maximizing the opportunities and benefits
• Ability to deep dive into existing solutions and troubleshoot complex (multi-system) solutions and provide solution recommendations

Trusted advisor to our clients

• Establish trusted advisor status with business and technology stakeholders by guiding them what should be the roadmap of the project and what functional areas will provide maximum business value-add
• Collect, formulate, and disseminate best practices on solution positioning and delivery based on the initial requirements gathered from the client. It is expected that this individual will guide the customer on implementing best practices in the industry
• Establish domain/industry vertical knowledge and broad Salesforce based applications expertise
• Develop strong client relationships by building trust, rapport and positive working relationships with key sponsors, stakeholders, and team members
• Create reference-able clients by providing them the quality deliverables, reliability and trusted partnership

Other responsibilities

• Contributes to the business development process by participating in sales calls, assisting/leading proposal development efforts and delivering client presentations
• Contributes to the ongoing development of solution/program offering approaches, methodologies, techniques,