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Salesforce Solution Engineer - Private Equity Practice

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Salesforce Solution Engineer - Private Equity Practice

Boston, MA

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Data

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Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. Our Global Private Equity & VC Practice is transforming the way private equity firms create value for investors and their portfolio companies and transforming/scaling how Salesforce accelerates its growth by specializing in this broad horizontal sector across all our industries.

We are action-oriented. We provide a unique form of strategic relationship capabilities to accelerate growth, and reduce risk. Blending analysis, vision, product-oriented thought leadership, with a focus on AI and Data, business case development and an entrepreneurial approach that enables senior Private Equity executives and their Portfolio Company Executives to rethink how quickly, easily and cost-efficiently they can achieve their strategic objectives and deliver next-generation, value creation-enhancing customer experiences across sales, service, marketing and commerce using the Salesforce platform.

Your Impact

We're looking for an experienced and committed data engineer to build data pipelines and metrics as part of the strategic AI initiatives for the Private Equity owned portfolio companies. In this role, you will work with CxOs within PE portfolio companies to understand business needs, translate them to technical requirements, wrangle data from various systems, and design automated data pipelines to drive insights. You will work with internal technology groups to automate the data collection and definition process.

You will have strong data architecture, ETL/ELT, SQL and a proven track record working with enterprise metrics. You will have strong operational skills to drive efficiency and speed, expertise building repeatable data engineering processes, strong project management skills, and a vision for how to deliver data products.

It is important to have a strong understanding of the private equity landscape and the ability to optimally communicate Salesforce value to portfolio company CxOs and private equity operating partners.

Responsibilities

  • Work with cross-functional team members to build data metric requirements, build quick POC's, document functional and technical requirements
  • Design & develop easy, repeatable and reusable automation data frameworks
  • Responsible for end-to-end data management activities, including but not limited to identify fields, data lineage and integration, performing data quality checks, analysis and presenting data
  • Evaluate, settle root cause, and resolve critical issues
  • Collaborate with Partner System Integrators (SIs) and Engineers to support data needs, develop scalable architecture, and deploy solutions
  • Work and collaborate with global teams across North America, EMEA and APAC
  • Advise leaders on standard processes around data usage and product development

Minimum Requirements

  • 3-5 Years of Experience implementing/configuring Salesforce Sales Cloud, and/or Service Cloud.
  • Proficiency in foundational data warehousing concepts and data modeling; ability to recommend when to use and implement relational, document, or graph type databases.
  • Ability to interface across various technologies through API's
  • Experience using Snowflake and similar centralized data platforms
  • Full proficiency of data engineering concepts, database designs, associated tools, system components, internal processes and architecture
  • Experience working as a technical lead/solution architect in a stakeholder-focused team
  • Experience working closely with Analytics/Data Science teams
  • Team-first mentality; excellent interpersonal skills in order to build strong relationships that will be essential for the success in this role.
  • Must be able to proactively communicate status and identify risks
  • Self-starter, highly motivated, able to shift directions quickly when priorities change, think through problems to come up with innovative solutions and deliver against tight deadlines.
  • Must be results oriented and able to move forward without complete information and with minimal direction

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

  • Exposure to private equity/credit, venture capital, top tier consulting, investment bank, M&A, strategy, enterprise software, or digital transformation
  • Experience with data visualization tools like Tableau
  • Proficiency with SQL, Bash and Python scripting
  • Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams preferred
  • Experience designing systems which incorporate data from various systems to make content recommendations and user profiles a plus

Our Investment In You:

  • World-class enablement and on-demand training - check out Trailhead.com for a sneak peek!
  • Exposure to executive thought leaders with a passion for living our values
  • Clear path to promotion with accelerated leadership development programs
  • Weekly 1:1 coaching with your leadership
  • Fast Ramp mentorship program
  • Week-long product bootcamp
  • Sandler Sales Training

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For New York-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $165,600 to $227,700.

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Client-provided location(s): Boston, MA, USA; New York, NY, USA
Job ID: Salesforce-JR268840
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • On-Site Gym
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Adoption Leave
    • Return-to-Work Program
    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Casual Dress
    • Happy Hours
    • Snacks
    • Some Meals Provided
    • Company Outings
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Unlimited Paid Time Off
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
    • Sabbatical
    • Volunteer Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Company Equity
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Performance Bonus
    • Relocation Assistance
    • Financial Counseling
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Learning and Development Stipend
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Internship Program
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Professional Coaching
    • Work Visa Sponsorship
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Unconscious Bias Training
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program

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