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Job Description:

Merkle Aotearoa | Auckland | Permanent or Contractor | Full time | R1096906

• Flexible working for balance and lifestyle and a high performing culture
• Get up to 5 weeks annual leave after 2-year anniversary and additional wellness days
• Unlimited learning opportunities with our global online learning platform dentsu University and a global Merkle network of specialists across APAC
• Join a collaborative, innovative and supportive team

About us

Merkle Aotearoa are a leading Digital Transformation Consulting firm in New Zealand and are a part of dentsu, Asia Pacific’s largest and most awarded agency network. We deliver connected experiences for our customers to theirs, led by human centred design principles and actionable data/insights, to implement world-class Salesforce solutions and digital transformations.

Our purpose is to bring our customers closer to their customers, partnering with organisations to accelerate the design and delivery of strategy, and to lift organisational performance. Our focus is to create the conditions for an organisation, and the people within it, to thrive. This means solutions that leverage best practice insights, tailored to client context.

What your role and typical day might look like

As a Solution Architect at Merkle Aotearoa, you will be supporting the delivery of Salesforce solutions as a Revenue Cloud expert, leading the design of solutions, overseeing and supporting delivery and uplifting capability of the practice. To do this successfully, you will support our customers in understanding their requirements to design solutions and advise on overall application and integration architectures where appropriate. You will also be a key contributor in helping our internal teams with pre-sales activities, proposing solutions to enable optimal customer experiences, and providing effort estimates and planning delivery roadmaps

Fundamentally, the role is about providing exceptional solution architecture. You’ll help companies and Senior Executives understand how to derive maximum value of their cloud ecosystems and leverage their data to better understand their customers, make better informed decisions, optimise processes and deliver outstanding experiences.

Responsibilities could include

• Requirement analysis of client problems, design and development of solutions that meet client needs and follow best practice.
• Development of architecture designs that could span multiple cloud platforms and on-premise applications, applying appropriate integration patterns, security controls and devOps considerations.
• Appropriate and accurate documentation to support solutions and delivery, including options papers to empower stakeholders to make informed decisions.
• Supporting pre-sales activities by creating high-level solution architecture, design, estimation and delivery planning.
• Provide mentorship and leadership to junior team members and contribute to the overall practice capability.
• Provide timely and relevant feedback to support the development of others and the performance of the team.
• Interact with client-team members to clarify requirements, demonstrate solutions and their value and gather feedback.

A bit about you

• 2 years as a client-facing Architect or Solution Lead role, delivering Salesforce implementations as an experienced Revenue Cloud or CPQ expert/architect. Certification in CPQ a bonus.
• At least 5 years’ experience in software development and/or technical consultant role delivering enterprise level Salesforce implementations with a sound understanding of Java/C#/HTML/JavaScript would be beneficial.
• A good understanding of, and collaborating in, agile delivery methodology environments
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, able to ask effective clarifying questions to uncover requirements, root cause problems, and communicate architecture clearly with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience from a professional services or consulting environment.
• A tertiary qualification in a computer science or information systems highly desirable but not essential.
• A natural collaborator, supporting different teams across the practice.
• Experience in supporting pre-sales and RFP/RFI processes.

Become a champion for meaningful progress

We want you to be you, as for us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

Together we make our mark. Together we embrace the true potential of disruption. And together – across all our locations – we help our clients win in a changing world.

Next Steps

Please specify in your CV or cover letter if you’re interested in a Permanent or Contractor role, and register your details to our dentsu careers page.

Please note, we are currently only considering candidates who possess working rights for New Zealand.

Location:

Auckland

Brand:

Merkle

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Independent Contractor