Salesforce Solution Designer

Description

POSITION SUMMARYThe main goal of this role is to help design technical solutions leveraging Salesforce capabilities that will deliver accelerated value towards achieving strategic business goals with clear focus on success metrics and ROI. This role reports into the Salesforce Center of Excellence Director. The ideal candidate is a change agent with consulting experience who will work with key business area stakeholders, the CoE team and our IT Partners to understand business processes and design, prototype, help develop enhancements, capabilities, process automation and customers insights that are aligned with the project vision, while mitigating risk.Salesforce Certifications required. The candidate must demonstrate in depth technical knowledge of Salesforce and its capabilities, track record of major solution design architecture contributions in a large enterprise, leadership skills to drive change, analytical and problem solving way of thought, project management skills and enthusiastic personality.Fundamental Components Duties and Responsibilities Ambassador of the CoE, change agent and champion of Salesforce to promote best practices that can transform and empower Aetnas businesses using Salesforce. Responsible for connecting business goals and challenges and for the overall design of the application solution on Salesforce.com.Leads Discovery Workshops with key stakeholders to understand Aetnas strategic business goals, needs, processes and current use of the platform, and any other customer centric data and processes not currently on SFDC.Analyzes and maps business areas strategic goals, processes and success metrics with Salesforce capabilities.Demonstrates Salesforce and extended AppExchange apps that can fit our needs. Explains complex technology concepts in in simple language.Partners with Aetnas SMEs across IT, Data Governance, Innovation Lab and other areas to design solutions that will deliver maximum value across the enterprise.Designs solutions with maximum usability while minimizing complex code and customization.Delivers detailed design proofofconcepts, wireframes, prototypes, in PPT and sandbox, as needed.Creates documentation of technical design, support plan and enable best practices and governance measures.This role works as a team member of the CoE to deliver the complete solution for our customers, partnering with our Platform Manager and IT Partners to oversee build, testing and deployment.Writes user stories and acceptance criteria for complex Agile deployments.Project manage solution scope, timelines, quality and cost and escalates issues for resolution and to mitigate risk.Drives communications with all key stakeholders including delivering project updates and gathering project sign offs from CoE Lead and key stakeholders and maintains alignmentPartners with Customer Success team to design enduser training materials and golive support.Stay current on Salesforce releases, new features, product roadmaps and applications available from 3rd parties on the Salesforce AppExchange.