Salesforce Consulting and Strategy Group (CSG)
What is the Consulting & Strategy Group?
- Consulting Led Engagement - Salesforce focused consulting and strategy capability shifting focus from project delivery and service.
- Focus on Key Industries – adopting an industry blueprint approach to engagement across key sectors including Financial Services, Life Sciences & Consumer Goods
- World Class Solutions - building world class industry capabilities and solutions, focusing on exploiting salesforce solutions including Marketing & Commerce plus MFG & CPG clouds.
- Use Cognizant’s Strengths - build on leading positions in Mulesoft and CPG, growing our existing teams and capabilities.
- Grow our Reach - extend presence in key growth markets, including France, Germany, Nordics and Canada to meet growing demand
What is the Opportunity?
- Cognizant is within Salesforce’s top 3 advisors to clients
- Salesforce related revenues are set to be $400m in Europe and $1bn worldwide by 2020
- With the rapid expansion all markets comes the opportunity to develop new and existing relationships supplying advisory capability, thought leadership, tech & industry consulting, and digital transformation
Who are we looking for?
- Candidates experienced in customer-facing and advisory work projects
- Strong self-starter with ability to work across multiple projects and within virtual teams
- Strong sense of industry and technical innovation and developments
- Ability to understand business challenges and strategic thinking alongside deep technical knowledge
CSG – Role Profile : SF Platform Architect (Advisory)
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and provide insights into new and disruptive technologies, practices and tool
- Owns the definition of platform blueprints and delivery framework
- Drives effective Architecture conversations (meetings, workshops) with senior client stakeholders on both business and technology side
- Collaborates with Cognizant’s wider team across Technology Consulting, Digital and Financial Services
- Provides thought-leadership and industry insight on the opportunities Salesforce provides within the vertical domains combined with relevant best practice
- Helps to shape Cognizant’s consulting propositions and contributes actively to our community of practice
- Provides advisory and quality assurance services during ongoing delivery
Job Requirements:
- Experience in at least one of the following industry areas: Banking/Financial Services, Consumer Goods/Retail, Manufacturing, Life Sciences
- Experience in designing and implementing Salesforce solutions within customer-facing, enterprise environments
- Strong background in either technology advisory/consulting
- Good insight into market & industry-specific trends and changes impacting our clients businesses
- Deep functional knowledge of relevant processes, capabilities and data models
- Understanding of relevant Industry capability frameworks and service models
- Good understanding of wider application landscape (industry-aligned, niche products) and relevant integration considerations
- Good understanding of relevant design methodologies
- Demonstrate the ability to independently problem solve and research solutions
- Proficient communication and stakeholder management skills