Salesforce Solution Architect - Financial Services

Job Description

Role Title: Salesforce Solution Architect - Financial Services

Location: London / Manchester / Leeds / Birmingham

Salary: Competitive salary and package dependent on experience

Career Level: Associate Manager

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide for business performance and inclusion and diversity.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

About the Accenture Salesforce Business Group:

Accenture has established a global commitment to Salesforce called the Salesforce Business Group (SFBG); a focused executive-level effort between Salesforce and Accenture, to turbo-charge our joint business, and deliver outstanding customer experiences for our clients. You will be part of an exciting environment – we have the energy and pace of a start-up, merged with the stability of a well-established Salesforce capability (Accenture has been delivering Salesforce-powered transformation for over 15 years).

The Accenture Salesforce Business Group exists to help our clients create the best customer and employee experiences on the planet. We do this through leveraging the best aspects of our deep knowledge of how to modernise organisations selling, service and operational functions across all key industries. With deep knowledge in the power of Salesforce’s multiple cloud offerings we help clients transform their employee and customer experiences. We believe that for organisations to be digital on the outside they must first optimise how they run their business with a clean digital core on which to conduct their operations. As a major global user of Salesforce ourselves we lead by example and are a great example of how we have modernised our sales, forecasting and commercial governance with Salesforce tools.

You will learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success and diverse ways of thinking. It is in that way we believe that our customers get the best results from their partnership with us. If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

As a Solution Architect, you will:

• Clearly be able to articulate the solution to senior stakeholders and demonstrate effective objective handling.

• Design and implement Salesforce solutions using Industries & Financial Services Cloud (FSC) for wealth management, Banking and investment clients.

• Lead client stakeholders to gather process and translate them into technical solutions.

• Develop your leadership and consulting skills whilst delivering Salesforce at scale, to deliver measurable client value in some of the most dynamic and challenging environments

• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with industry best practices.

• Keep informed about the latest Salesforce Financial Services features and updates by engaging with Salesforce.

• Gain additional skills in solutioning, project management and client engagement through practical experience and training.

• Embed AI into your thinking when building out industry solutions

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Extensive experience with Salesforce Industries or Financial Services Cloud

• Proven hands-on experience leading technical engagements through architecting, designing, building, and delivering integrated solutions on Salesforce

• Experience addressing key architecture concerns (scalability, performance, security, availability, etc.) in the context of Salesforce.

• Excellent communication (written and oral), presentation skills, interpersonal skills, and management skills. A background in consulting or leading teams is required.

• Relevant Salesforce certifications (e.g., Salesforce Application Architect, Salesforce Certified Platform Developer, former Vlocity certifications, Agentforce Specialist).

Set yourself apart:

• Industry-specific knowledge and experience leveraging leading Salesforce and ecosystem industry solutions

• Understand and articulate how Agentforce and AI is effecting Financial Service and how you’ve used AI to deliver value.

• Salesforce Application Architect, System Architect or equivalent industry Architect certifications

• Pre-sales solution architecture experience (including solution shaping, and delivery estimation and planning) is highly regarded

• Active Salesforce community participation and contributions.

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package.

Accenture reserves the right to close the role before this date should a suitable applicant be found.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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