Solution Architect

Job Description

Solution Architect
Customer Success I Chicago, IL or San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA or Remote - North America

This position is not eligible for employment in the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.

Our agreement with employees
DocuSign is committed to building trust and making the world more agreeable for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what’s right, every day. At DocuSign, everything is equal. We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better. And for that, you’ll be loved by us, our customers, and the world in which we live.

The team
Our Customer Success team is the largest organization in the world focused entirely on agreement processes and technologies. We are the Agreement Experts. With hundreds of thousands of successful customers worldwide, we know how to help our customers see results quickly. And that experience is just one of the reasons our customers trust us to connect, automate, and integrate their systems of agreement, everywhere they need to get work done.

This position
The DocuSign Professional Services team manages customer implementations and integrations of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud (DAC) products. The goals of the Solution Architect are to lead and provide product recommendations/configurations, technical and business use expertise for our applications, understanding of data and network security, ensure proactive communication to clients and internal staff, manage enhancement requirements and escalations, understand simple to complex business requirements and design scalable solutions to meet immediate and growing needs. The Solution Architect leads impactful engagements by anticipating the needs of the clients and ensuring the alignment of the internal and external teams focused on the DAC platform.

This role requires excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate to a wide range of stakeholders (internally and externally) both orally and in writing. In addition, the Solution Architect must be able to drive conversations and decisions across many of our internal organizations such as Support, Product Management, Sales and Business Development.

As part of our global team of Agreement Experts – in professional services, customer success management, learning and enablement, and customer support – you’ll bring your knowledge, insights, and proven expertise to help our customers achieve more than they ever thought possible.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Manager of Professional Services and is designated Remote.

Responsibilities

• Have an in-depth knowledge of best-practice business consulting and seasoned consulting skills
• Be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of the assigned engagements
• Lead complex implementations as an expert, providing best practices and ensuring the solution design results in a scalable solution
• Guide and coach project team in design, architecture, configuration and deployment
• Identify and leverage new release features and functionality by being current with product releases and features
• Provide input to the customers overall system architecture and tooling to meet the long-term vision of DAC
• Build trusted relationships with the customer to guide them through decision making and industry best practices
• Identify customer resource requirements and dependencies and address gaps in a coordinated and mutually beneficial manner
• Recommend creative solutions for customer’s unique requirements while ensuring long term scalability and accounting for the product roadmap
• Build strong relationships with customer admins and Center of Excellence, acting as a trusted expert consultant on how to leverage the DAC platform across their business using best practices
• Manage Escalations and/or Rescuing Partner/PS projects
• Provide Expert services – in reviewing customer/partner/PS implementations and providing corrective measures in bringing a customer back to health
• Provide time critical and long terms fixes that will help the customer recognize their desired outcomes
• Collaborate with Product, Sales, CS and other internal teams
• Provide guidance with pre-sales motions via scoping and estimation for medium to complex engagements
• Partner with the Project Manager to ensure correct planning and controls on scope, budget and timeline
• Provide guidance for post go live activities (eg. Training, DSU classes, adoption etc.)
• Play a lead role representing CS in cross-functional long-range projects to develop novel, highly futuristic products/services that significantly contribute to DocuSign's competitive advantage and industry leadership position
• Create best practices and coach PS resources ensuring consistent and scalable delivery for all DocuSign customers
• Provide feedback to team members on configuration and deliverables
• Orchestrate escalation resolution with customers and internal resources
• Align with business and key stakeholders on requirements and outcomes
• Collaborate and communicate across the entire account (Customer and Internal stakeholders) to ensure alignment
• Meet all Professional Services team success criteria including utilization target, customer satisfaction score and financial requirements
• Play a trusted advisor role with internal / external clients. This may include customer business reviews and senior level strategy discussions
• Become an expert in designing, implementing and articulating DocuSign Agreement Cloud solutions
• Provide guidance on learning paths for developing practitioners
• Deliver on-time and on-budget collaborative engagements to our customers that provide continuous improvement via impactful solutions which result in highly referenceable accounts enabling strong adoption, renewal and upsell
• Plan, organize and manage all tasks, project decisions, escalations, and prioritizations of an engagement to ensure customer satisfaction. This includes developing Architecture of technical solutions to address client needs and tracking to long term customer objectives, success criteria and milestones
• Collaborate with DocuSign team to proactively uncover additional customer needs and support documenting client requirements and expectations

Basic qualifications

• A BA/BS degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent
• 12+ years working directly with business/customers to understand business needs and applying technology solutions to those requirements
• 10+ years of experience consulting/ leading implementation / solution architecture development / business analyst teams in Software or Software-as-a-Service industries
• 10+ years of experience in Enterprise Integration tools, ETL and Web Application Development
• 10+ years of experience in a variety of programming languages, including C#, Java, HTML, CSS, javascript, jQuery, SQL and Web services (REST/SOAP) development and integration

Preferred qualifications

• A sound knowledge and experience with data management and analytics platform
• Adept at leading change and achieving meaningful outcomes at the executive level; evangelizing skills to both technical and business executives
• Demonstrate ability to uncover additional customer needs and deliver in a mutually beneficial manner
• Proven track record of architecting and implementing solutions that result in customers leveraging the platform and resulting in continued product renewals
• Understanding of document/content management and/or workflow systems and their application to business process improvement
• Experience of implementing Contract Lifecycle management solutions
• Experience implementing workflow/BPM software (e.g. Lombardi, Pega, K2, Skelta), software (e.g. Salesforce.com, Documentum, FileNet, MS SharePoint, Success Factor)
• Experience in operating in a management consultant role
• Outstanding writing and verbal communication skills
• Strong multitasking and organization skills
• Experience working in one or more of the following industries: FinServ, Tech, Telecom, Healthcare, Real Estate, Insurance, Education, Public Sector
• Experience with XML/Xpath or other structured data

Based on Colorado law, the following details are for Colorado individuals only: Colorado base salary range: $133,000 - $165,200 and eligible for bonus, equity and benefits.

Vaccination requirement (US)
DocuSign requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Therefore, to ensure the safety and well being of our employees and community, to support public health efforts, and comply with the Executive Order that applies to federal contractors, this offer is conditioned upon submission of written proof, prior to your start date, that you are fully vaccinated. DocuSign will comply with applicable law regarding the reasonable accommodation of individuals with disabilities and/or sincerely held religious beliefs.

About us
DocuSign helps organizations connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act on, and manage agreements. As part of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, DocuSign offers eSignature: the world's #1 way to sign electronically on practically any device, from almost anywhere, at any time. Today, over a million customers and hundreds of millions of users in over 180 countries use DocuSign to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people's lives. And we help save the world’s forests and embrace environmental sustainability.

It's important to us that we build a talented team that is as diverse as our customers and where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging and thrive. We encourage great talent who bring a range of perspectives to apply for our open positions. DocuSign is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes hiring decisions based on experience, skill, aptitude, and a can-do approach. We will not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected category.

Accommodations
DocuSign provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, including if you have any difficulty using our online system. If you need such an accommodation, you may contact us at [email protected].