Technical Architect at Zendesk in Austin, TX

Summary: Zendesk is a company focused on enhancing customer service experiences. As a Technical Architect, you will collaborate with customer SMEs to design and implement technical solutions that integrate Zendesk into customer workflows, while also leading technical discussions and providing feedback to influence product development. Responsibilities: - Understanding, detailing, and implementing all customer requirements according to scope - Actively collaborate with customer SMEs to build the best technical solution for integrating Zendesk into customer workflows and processes - Ask questions to dig into the customer’s use case to collect and assemble the business problem to solve - Craft their Zendesk instance for the customer to be successful - Seek to understand our current & prospective customers’ needs and lead technically oriented customer conversations - Work collaboratively with Consultant, Support and Account Management teams to position, present and validate implementation solutions to our actual & prospective customers - Communicate highly technical concepts to a variety of audiences, including executive-level technical decision-makers - Provide feedback and prototype ideas from the field to influence product development - Design, POC and present technical solutions for customer use cases - Suggest validated workarounds to fill product gaps - Lead highly technical discussions on a broad variety of technologies Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience) - 1-2+ years of experience delivering consulting services and/or programming experience with languages like Ruby, Python, Java, C#, or JavaScript - Excellent analytical skills, including the ability to meet a business requirement with a technical solution - Strong solution scoping abilities, using our existing solution and influencing new product development - Experience with RESTful APIs - Experience developing applications on the backend (servers and databases) as well as the client side (Android, Web, iOS, etc) - Experience developing, selling, or supporting SaaS applications - High energy, passion and positivity - you are someone who sincerely enjoy presenting to and interacting with customers - Experience in a broad variety of technical concepts (web development, web sockets, mobile development, backend development, automation) - Strong communication skills - English proficiency is required Preferred Qualifications: - Experience in global teams - Familiarity with a backend programming language (Ruby, Python, C#, etc.) - Hands-on experience with Zendesk products, implementations, configuration, Apps Framework, and SSO - Zendesk Administrator Certification - Zendesk App Developer 1 Certification Required Skills: Programming languages - Ruby, Programming languages - Python, Programming languages - Java, Programming languages - C#, Programming languages - JavaScript, RESTful APIs, Backend development, Frontend development - Android, Frontend development - Web, Frontend development - iOS, SaaS applications, Zendesk products, Zendesk Apps Framework, Zendesk SSO, Zendesk Administrator Certification, Zendesk App Developer 1 Certification, Analytical skills, English proficiency Benefits: Bonus, Benefits, Related incentives