Technical Architect – German or French Speaker
Salesforce2 days ago
Lausanne, Switzerland or Zürich, SwitzerlandSenior
Responsibilities
- Advise enterprise customers on Salesforce architecture, delivery roadmaps, and measurable business outcomes.
- Lead architecture for complex engagements and coordinate solution and technical architects across customers, partners, and Salesforce teams.
- Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, secure, maintainable solution designs.
- Design data, integration, identity, security, migration, governance, and connected-enterprise architectures.
- Review implementation approaches and deliverables, guide configuration and development, and contribute hands-on when required.
- Plan migration and rollout strategies addressing data quality, legacy applications, global standards, and local market needs.
- Collaborate with project and engagement managers to manage delivery dependencies, risks, issues, and customer expectations.
- Evaluate AI and automation use cases, including data access, human oversight, and evaluation criteria.
- Mentor customers, partners, and colleagues and support pre-sales activities when required.
Requirements
- Professional working proficiency in German or French, written and spoken, sufficient to lead customer workshops and discuss architecture decisions.
- Already authorised to work in Switzerland and holding a valid Swiss work permit where required.
- 8+ years of enterprise architecture or technical consulting experience, including 4+ years leading Salesforce implementation projects.
- Consulting experience advising customers, facilitating discovery workshops, and translating business needs into architecture and delivery plans.
- Strong Salesforce application design, data modelling, integration, identity, security, and platform scalability experience.
- Hands-on Salesforce configuration, customisation, and coding experience in object-oriented languages.
- Experience with APIs, enterprise integration patterns, data migration, and connected enterprise applications.
- Understanding of enterprise security, privacy, and governance requirements.
- Ability to lead technical teams and deliver through agile methods across distributed, multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong communication, presentation, facilitation, ownership, and stakeholder-influence skills.
- Ability to learn new technologies and travel regionally or occasionally internationally according to customer needs.
- Preferred: experience spanning multiple Salesforce products, enterprise data management, omnichannel engagement, digital self-service, CRM modernization, legacy migration, or multi-country deployments.
- Preferred: Agentforce, enterprise data platform, or AI-assisted development experience, plus Salesforce Certified Technical Architect or other Salesforce architecture certifications.
- Preferred: a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrable professional experience.
Benefits
- Salesforce states that its benefits and resources support balance and personal well-being.
- Reasonable accommodations are available during the application and recruiting process.
- The role requires work authorization in Switzerland and may involve regional or occasional international travel.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Salesforce
Salesforce builds cloud-based customer relationship management software and a broader Customer 360 platform for sales, service, marketing, commerce, and analytics, sold by subscription to businesses and public-sector organizations. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, it trades on the NYSE under the symbol CRM. Its portfolio includes Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, MuleSoft integration, Tableau analytics, and Slack for collaboration, with extensive developer tools and APIs.