Senior Salesforce Technical Architect

At valantic, our distinct culture is shaped by four core values: Passion, Accountability, Commitment, and Integrity. Our team's passion drives innovation in business, people, and technology, ensuring we approach every project with enthusiasm. Accountability is key to our growth, as we embrace learning from experiences to enhance our expertise. We are committed to helping our clients achieve their business objectives, dedicating ourselves to improving customer experiences. Integrity is fundamental in our interactions, ensuring we treat everyone with respect and honesty. These values not only make valantic a unique place to work but also define our strong partnerships with clients.

What we are searching for

Are you passionate about the full CRM implementation lifecycle? From understanding the business needs to delivering and deploying? Do you want to lead our largest and strategic opportunities? If so, then this opportunity is perfect for you! As a Salesforce Technical Architect, you’ll be at the forefront of successfully solutioning the enterprise application end-to-end, designing and building the solution, implementing integrated processes, serving as a technical expert. And you will work closely with our sales team to ensure customer success.

Ideally, you have strong experience, enjoy designing transformation solutions, have hands-on experience with Salesforce (or similar platforms like MS Dynamics, SAP C4C, etc.), and edge technologies while working closely with our customers. If you are motivated and want to grow into such a role or have experience in a similar domain or technology, we encourage you to apply.

In this dynamic role, you'll be responsible leading functional and technical workshops, demonstrating leadership skills in designing, delivering, testing and deploying. And serving as a trusted advisor to our customers and partners, managing customer expectations, negotiating solutions to complex problems whilst guiding our customers, partners and our implementation teams on how to best execute digital transformations involving the Salesforce platform. Witness firsthand the impact of your contributions and taking pride in the solutions you implement.

As a valued member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to lead and enhance internal processes, drive pre-sales opportunities, refine best practices, and foster knowledge sharing among colleagues. We're seeking individuals who are eager to grow, are curious and want to evolve into experts. So, what are you waiting for? Join us on this exciting journey and take your career to new heights! Let’s go!

Your job will be challenging; CRM is an ever evolving and very innovative concept. The big CRM platforms like Salesforce innovate at a high pace, which requires all of our people to stay on top of the latest trends and evolutions (Agentforce for example). At valantic you will have the opportunity to jump on that train and keep your skills up to date at all times.

Requirements

• Be a key stakeholder within a growing team for smaller and larger international projects in our focus industries

• Lead workshops, translate and decipher business needs and requirements to create business value and demonstrate skills in the implementation lifecycle

• Assist and support deep-dive pre-sales engagements, identify and help build service offerings, explore and drive opportunities in new industries

• Develop strong client relationships and become a platform ambassador

• Own architecture and design. Put in place secure, robust and scalable IT architectures

• Act as a role model, be a technical lead, validate solutions and guide & inspire your team

• Cultivate expertise and taking pride in your work

• Stay up-to-date with Salesforce and related industry and technology drivers

• Contribute and create technical & solution architecture

• Proactively communicating for continuous improvement within our team and for our customers.

  Desired Profile

• 6+ years of CRM experience on the Salesforce platform

• Expert level understanding of the Salesforce CORE clouds and experience with AppExchange partner ecosystem

• Experience in leading workshops

• Proven ability to design and integrate business processes across disparate systems

• Strong understanding of data management, data models, integrations, data migration, process automation and DevOps

• Ability to demonstrate concepts visually and in writing to guide stakeholders

• Analytical skills and ability to develop processes and methodologies

• Detail-oriented with the ability to rapidly learn of new technologies, industries, concepts, … and staying on top of technology trends

• Good knowledge about software architecture concepts

• Salesforce certified or ability to achieve relevant certifications upon hire

• Driven, motivated, passionate, and committed

• Fluent in English & Dutch

  What we offer

  As a modern company, we value the well-being of our employees and want them to have a good balance between their career and personal life. We offer our employees a personal career path in an inspiring and fun environment. The compensation package is in line with our culture, where reward & recognition is both based on the company and the individuals’ growth. It contains the following:

• Attractive gross salary

• Variable salary (based on individual and company criteria)

• Holiday pay, 13th month

• Net allowance, meal vouchers

• Company car or mobility plan, laptop, mobile subscription

• Hospitalization insurance & Group insurance

• 32 holidays: 20 regular holidays, 40-hour work week with 12 compensation holidays

• An inspiring work environment with professional and involved colleagues

• Opportunity to continuously learn, grow and develop your career. Aside from this we also provide a lot of indirect benefits (e.g. year end gifts, team building activities, yearly skitrip, …). The variable salary can be used for bike leasing, additional insurances, discount cards, etc

INTERESTED TO JOIN? Are you looking for a new challenge in an inspiring and fun environment? Apply now! In case you have any questions or want to know more on the role, you can contact Rebecca Stevens via [email protected]or [email protected]