Industry Enterprise Architect

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Sales

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**About Salesforce**

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**Industry Enterprise Architect / Pre-Sales Architect - Retail**:
Location: France, office flex or remote

**Overview of the Role**:
As an Industry Enterprise Architect (IEA) for Retail, no two days are the same. You are a valued team member, collaborator, contributor and inspiring leader who will spend the majority of your time helping our customers on their digital transformation journey. This said, a typical day may start with a team call where you share experiences and expertise with your colleagues in the EA team. You will then start work on a presentation for the board of a major Retail company, using assets from the vast Salesforce repository as well as using your own creativity and insights to prepare a compelling and achievable view of their future. After lunch with colleagues from across the different business functions in our outstanding Munich office (to just name one) you will participate in an Equality workshop aligned with one of the 10 Equality Group within Salesforce. The afternoon will be spent communicating our industry point of view to the CDO of a prospective account and debating new trends in AI.

**Job description**:
The IEA Retail will act as an enterprise domain guide to sales teams on how the Salesforce Customer Success Platform fits into an enterprise business and IT architecture. With a broad IT background and sound business insight including: business architecture, cloud computing, the Enterprise Architect will create a roadmap of how to deploy Salesforce solutions and transform customer business strategy into execution as part of the pre-sales cycle.

The Industry Enterprise Architect should have a strong alignment and knowledge with the Retail industry (B2*). The individual should have a compelling industry point of view across the customer journey, be able to discuss future trends and challenges and provide a Salesforce perspective on how these will be addressed. The individual will be encouraged to assist in the development of our industry sales plays and to communicate these both internally and externally, including at industry and architecture conferences.

With a strong blend of technical and sales skills the IEA Retail uses a consultative approach to understand business and technical requirements and to help the sales teams develop and refine a sales strategy and Salesforce solution fit. You should also be comfortable discussing and describing all aspects of the Salesforce platform with business IT audiences including the CTO/CIO and Chief Digital Officer.

**Your impact**:

- Identify and lead internal pivotal initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serve as an active contributor to the community’s overall knowledge base and expertise.
- Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying new technologies that drive increased business value.
- Conduct assessments and facilitate workshops to develop a future-state vision
- Develop multi-year, strategic roadmaps for immediate delivery that prioritize investments and support business objectives
- Uncover future Sales opportunities to drive customer value
- Develop strategic use cases to project the value of strategy, case digital transformations and implications for the organization
- Cultivate solution/organizational adoption and strategy evolution to continue to deliver value with quicker delivery cycles

**Experience/Skills Required**:

- Demonstrated ability in the retail industry, with a consistent track record in a similar enterprise architecture role.
- Deep knowledge of retail business processes, including but not limited to inventory management, supply chain optimization, e-commerce, and customer experience.
- Strong pre-sales/business development experience, preferably with a software vendor, Systems Integrator or other consulting organisation
- Good understanding of the architectural principles of cloud based platforms including SaaS, PaaS, multi-tenancy, multi-tiered infrastructure and micro-services.
- Experience defining the system architecture landscape, identifying gaps between current and desired end-states, and delivering a comprehensive solution
- Experience leading discovery sessions, defining business requirements, writing user stories and providing detailed system and functional designs.
- Strong presentation skills; able to successfully present a point of view and clearly articulate the rationale to a variety of tea