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Associate Technical Architect

Salesforce Marketing CloudSFMCSalesforce CRMSQLAPISOAPRESTAmpscriptHTMLCSSJavascriptprogram managementtechnical program managementdigital transformationclient managementpresalesRFPsolution architectdata cloudcustomer 360lead managementconsent managementsegmentation

Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Senior

Years experience

10+

Location

Bengaluru, India

Full job description

Seeking a senior technical program/portfolio manager with 10-12 years of experience and strong hands-on skills to deliver strategic technology solutions. Must have over 5 years leading Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) implementations and expertise in SQL (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL), API integrations (SOAP, REST), Ampscript, HTML, and CSS. Responsibilities include designing and estimating custom Salesforce Marketing Cloud solutions, developing technical artifacts, scoping solutions during presales, defining client operating models, risk management, timeline and project planning, leading technical design sessions, and managing client relationships. Requires strong communication, problem-solving skills, and ability to lead cross-functional teams. Bachelor's degree in Engineering required. Salesforce Marketing Cloud certifications preferred. Work in client-specific time zones including IST, GMT, EST, and ANZ.

What you'll do

  • Deliver strategic technology solutions to clients
  • Lead cross-functional teams for on-time delivery of technically complex solutions
  • Design and estimate deep technical, custom development solutions on Salesforce Marketing Cloud
  • Design and develop technical artifacts, solution design documents, functional and non-functional mapping of requirements
  • Scope solutions, implementation and managed services during presales and complete services success documents
  • Define client operating model, business process definition and enable client champions to own program components
  • Identify risks and create mitigation plans by performing gap analysis
  • Set program guardrails and manage program scope and change requests
  • Manage timeline, project planning and track program progress by workstream
  • Lead technical design sessions; architect and document technical solutions aligned with client business objectives
  • Convert business use cases to technical specifications on multiple Adobe solutions
  • Lead diverse, cross-functional project teams and communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and outcomes
  • Handle client relationships including communications with business owners and IT leaders
  • Lead project scope for managed services, budget, and resource allocation to ensure profitability and execution

Requirements

  • 10-12 years of technical program/portfolio management experience with strong hands-on
  • More than 5 years of experience in leading SFMC implementations
  • Understanding of SFMC integration with other platforms such as SFDC, Salesforce CRM, CRM
  • Expertise and experience in SQL (Oracle / SQL Server / PostgreSQL)
  • Experience with API Integrations – SOAP, REST
  • Strong communication skills
  • Problem solving and result orientation
  • Excellent in Ampscript, HTML, CSS
  • Engage with client to derive requirements and consult on best practices
  • Ability to inspire and train clients on Salesforce CRM/Marketing Cloud/Data Cloud ecosystem
  • Cooperate with client marketing managers to support adoption
  • Provide consultations and training for campaign managers
  • Good to have: experience on other SF platforms like SFDC, SF Personalization, architecting, design
  • Good to have: presales, RFPs, solutioning and winning deals experience on SFMC or similar platforms
  • Good to have: programming experience (Javascript, Java, VB, C#, PHP)
  • Overview of CRM data and Salesforce CRM platform understanding
  • Understanding of Lead Management, Consent Management, Customer 360-view including segmentation, grading, classification, profiling
  • Segment creation in Data Cloud
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud Certifications
  • Multi Solution Architect Certification (nice to have)

Tech stack

Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC)Salesforce CRMSQL (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)API Integrations (SOAP, REST)AmpscriptHTMLCSSJavascriptJavaVBC#PHPSalesforce Data CloudSalesforce Personalization

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