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This role will work closely with experienced technical teams, business partners, and end users to design, build, and communicate solutions that support our business goals and deliver a better experience for our colleagues and customers.\nYou will be supported by a growing team, but this is also a hands-on role. You should be comfortable stepping in where needed across delivery activities, from reviewing technical specifications and writing business requirements to supporting testing and helping the team move work forward.\nWhat will you do?\nLead Salesforce solution design across the Technology Solutions Product Line, ensuring scalable, end-to-end designs that align with platform, architecture, and team standards.\nPartner with business stakeholders, product owners, project teams, architects, vendors, and delivery teams to understand needs, pain points, outcomes, and success criteria.\nCo-lead discovery and working sessions with business partners, managing the agenda and discussion to drive clear decisions and shared understanding.\nTranslate business needs into clear user stories, solution options, fit-gap analysis, and well-architected Salesforce designs.\nCreate solution design documentation, including solution overviews, capability maps, system architecture, configuration approach, integrations, and data flows.\nProvide level-of-effort estimates and clearly explain solution benefits, risks, feasibility, functionality, and fit for business stakeholders and technical governance forums.\nSupport technical design authority and architecture review discussions, including presentations and follow-up clarification where needed.\nContribute to capability and platform roadmaps, bringing a practical view of Salesforce opportunities, dependencies, and delivery priorities.\nCommunicate complex concepts clearly, visually, and in writing so stakeholders can make confident decisions.\nBuild strong relationships and act as a trusted advisor to business and technical teams.\nCoach and guide a multi-disciplinary team of Salesforce professionals, helping to move work forward across multiple priorities.\nProvide hands-on support across delivery activities when needed, including requirements, testing, solution presentations, and sizing of customer needs.\nQualifications, Skills & Experience Required\nMinimum 5 years of Salesforce experience across full-lifecycle implementations, including business analysis, solution design, and technology delivery.\nMinimum 2 years of experience leading Salesforce solution architecture and design, including business processes, integrations, user experience, and process improvement.\nMinimum 1 year of experience working on the customer side of Salesforce implementation, with direct exposure to internal stakeholder needs, delivery governance, and long-term platform ownership.\nProven experience designing large-scale Salesforce solutions, including business architecture, process architecture, integration architecture, user experience, and process improvement.\nAdvanced hands-on knowledge of Salesforce configuration and custom development.\nStrong understanding of the core Salesforce platform, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Experience Cloud.\nAbility to design, improve, and integrate business processes across multiple systems.\nGood understanding of software engineering practices and user-centered design/design thinking.\nExperience writing clear user stories and requirements for Salesforce delivery teams.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex topics clearly.\nCombination of Salesforce certifications, such as Administrator, Sales Cloud Consultant, Service Cloud Consultant, Salesforce Business Analyst and Platform App Builder.\n Nice to have\nExperience with Agentforce and Salesforce AI capabilities.\nExperience with Health Cloud or Life Sciences Cloud.\nExperience or certification in Field Service, CPQ, Zuora, Data 360, Application Architect, B2B Solution Architect, B2C Solution Architect, B2C industry solutions or other Salesforce Architecture & Consultant Certifications.\nExperience with DevOps Tooling (such as Gearset, GitHub, Copado).\n What we offer\nExciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment.\nOpportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally.\nHybrid working model, flexible role pattern (e.g., even 80% full-time is possible in justified cases). \nPension and health insurance contributions. \nInternal reward system plus referral programme. \n5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution. \nCafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card. \nVodafone, Raiffeisen Bank and Foodora discount programmes. \nUp-to-date laptop and iPhone. \nParking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner. \nCompetitive salary, incentive pay, and many more. \nReady to take up the challenge? Apply now! \nKnow anybody who might be interested?Refer this job!\nRequired Skills:\nAsset Management, Business Requirements Analysis, Critical Success Factors, Delivery Coordination, Management System Development, Opportunity Management, Process Alignment, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Management, Sales Solutions, Solution Architecture, Solutions Design, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Alliances, Strategic Planning, System DesignsPreferred Skills:\nCurrent Employees apply HERE\nCurrent Contingent Workers apply HERE\nSearch Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully\nMerck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. 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