Summary
Salesforce is hiring a Senior Solution Architect for its Professional Services team in Riyadh. The role leads customer engagement architecture from scoping through delivery, translates executive business needs into scalable solutions, and guides prototypes, user stories, testing, and stakeholder alignment. Applicants need more than 8 years of enterprise software experience and a record of delivering solutions in media or telecommunications. Fluent English is required; Arabic is preferred, and regional or occasional international travel may be needed.
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Salesforce is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to join our Professional Services team within the Customer Success Group (CSG). As a strategic delivery leader, the Senior Solution Architect shapes, scopes, and drives complex customer engagements to ensure long-term success. This role leads architectural strategy from initial scoping through full execution, ensuring mission-critical programs deliver measurable outcomes. They are accountable for architectural integrity and executive alignment, elevating solution quality while cultivating a high-performance team culture. As stewards of the Professional Services Methodology, they leverage cross-functional networks to enforce best practices, scale delivery excellence, and ensure consistency across engagements.
YOUR IMPACT
Become a Domain Authority: Engage in our onboarding program and closely work with Consultants, Architects, and Project Managers to deliver outstanding customer success.
Bridge Business and Tech: Evaluate business and functional requirements at an executive level, translating business strategies into scalable process designs and solution architecture.
- AI & Agentforce Innovation: Champion the use of AI tools and Salesforce's Agentforce platform to automate workflows, optimize business processes, and deliver next-generation customer experiences.
- Solution Design & Prototyping: Create prototypes, proofs of concept, and sample mockups to elicit and define complex business requirements.
- Agile Delivery: Craft and own user stories and solution specifications, detailing them in agile sprints for the technical team to execute.
- Best Practices Guidance: Provide guidance on Salesforce Platform capabilities, functional solution architecture, environment management, and testing (UAT).
- Relationship Management: Build trust and rapport with key stakeholders, negotiating solutions to complex strategic and technical problems.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience: +8 years of experience in the enterprise software space as a Solution Architect, Functional Architect, Product Owner, or Senior Business Analyst.
- Industry Expertise: Proven track record of success delivering solutions within the Media and/or Telecommunications sector.
- Process Optimization: Demonstrated ability to analyze, design, and optimize enterprise business processes via technology.
- AI Integration Experience: Experience utilizing AI-assisted tools to improve productivity, with a strong understanding of how AI (such as Agentforce or similar technologies) can be leveraged to transform business operations.
- Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to clearly document requirements, architectures, and process flows using diagrams and functional models.
- Language Skills: Fluent English (Proficiency in Arabic is preferred for the Saudi Arabia / MENA market)
- Team Collaboration: Ability to work independently and as part of a distributed Agile/Scrum team.
- Mobility: Available to travel regionally and occasionally internationally depending on customer needs.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Salesforce Expertise: Active Salesforce Certifications and deep hands-on experience with the Salesforce Platform declarative capabilities.
- Revenue Cloud: Experience with Salesforce Revenue Cloud (CPQ, EPC) or Communications Cloud is highly desirable.
- Methodology: Knowledge of design thinking processes and tools, and experience working as a Certified Product Owner (CSPO).
- Consulting Experience: Experience working in a senior consulting role with matrixed teams at a top-tier consultancy or global system integrator.
- Unleash Your Potential
- When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
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