Slalom

Slalom New Zealand

Slalom is a fiercely human consulting company focused on end-to-end business transformation enabled by technology. With 20-plus years of experience and operating in 45+ markets around the world, Slalom teams have the autonomy to move fast and do what's right for our clients, making us more personal and nimbler than traditional consulting firms. At Slalom, we offer variety, fulfillment, and balance. You can work with the world's top companies, keep up with the latest technology, flex your skills across industries, pursue your life outside of work and, spend quality time with your family. After launching our Auckland office in February 2023, we are continuing to grow, and the below role is yet another opportunity to start your journey with Slalom and help us shape the future.

The Salesforce team

As a Platinum Salesforce partner, we help our clients transform the way they connect with their customers. Our team is made up of Salesforce-certified experts with experience across the Salesforce Customer Success Platform and multiple industries. As the 3rd largest global Salesforce partner, we are committed to growing and developing our Salesforce talent, offering continued growth opportunities, and exposing our people to interesting and diverse projects.

The Role

Salesforce Financial Services Cloud Architect

Who You Are: You are the Salesforce subject matter expert, responsible for client delivery, proposals, new business pursuits, recruiting, asset development, complex solutioning, and knowledge management.

Responsibilities

• Expertise and experience with FSC including configuration of the FSC Platform
• Expert level understanding of various components of the Salesforce product suite, such as Sales, Service, Community, Marketing, and App Clouds
• Translate business requirements into well architected solutions that best leverage the Salesforce.com platform
• Lead technical design sessions; architect and document technical solutions aligned with client business objectives; identify gaps between client's current and desired end states
• Manage the technical delivery of custom development, integrations, and data migration elements of a Salesforce.com implementation
• Manage technical scopes and client expectations
• Demonstrate technical thought leadership
• Conduct code reviews for ongoing projects to ensure that code quality is at the highest level possible and appropriate design patterns are being used
• Provides oversight and governance of all sold and managed Salesforce.com projects
• Drives business development with the proper information, tools, and subject matter expertise to sell engagements and provide detailed estimates within the offering
• Coach and mentor junior technical resources; own responsibility for ongoing technical development of technical resources on Salesforce projects
• Interview potential candidates
• Serve as a mentor/lead and people manager within the team

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Consulting or Industry (Banking, Fins) experience
• Experience and expertise with FSC, including configuration of the FSC Platform
• Minimum 3 years of Salesforce platform experience (5+ years preferred)
• Proven ability to design and optimize business processes and integrate business processes across disparate systems
• Expert understanding of multiple facets of the Salesforce.com product suite, such as Salesforce 1, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Platform and the App Exchange
• Configuration experience using the Salesforce.com point-and-click developer interface
• Awareness of programmatic solutions on the Salesforce platform including Apex and VisualForce
• Understanding of the Salesforce.com data loader for data migration activities in Salesforce.com
• Strong background in design and development of enterprise systems as part of a complete software product lifecycle
• Deep functional and technical understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and other Cloud Computing Services is a must
• Excellent client-facing written and oral communications skills
• Active Salesforce certifications or ability to achieve relevant certifications upon hire

Our Values

Our culture and values reflect each individual Slalomer. We are dedicated to encouraging workplace diversity and ensuring all our people, from any background can contribute to their full potential. We wish to build a team that echoes the diversity of the communities we serve, and our values are an active part of our every-day, guiding our decisions.

What keeps us here?

Our New Zealand office knows the important of a good work/life balance. We have the freedom to be ourselves when life gets in the way. We make a big effort to bring everyone together and allow space when space is needed. We believe in helping each other thrive in work and life and are proud to invest in benefits that include holistic wellbeing, meaningful allowances, and investment in our team’s professional, technical and personal growth. It’s an exciting time to be one of our foundational members, getting involved in setting up our ‘Kiwi’ values and culture and what makes us uniquely Slalom NZ!

Slalom prides itself on helping our team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in our team members with competitive and innovative benefit programs and services that meet the unique needs of our diverse workforce.