Technical Architect

Job Description

Technical Architects are integral to the Zendesk Professional Services delivery team, crafting tailored technical solutions to meet each customer's unique business needs and goals.

You will understand and map customers' functional and technical requirements to business objectives using Zendesk functionality. Leveraging your technical knowledge and experience, you will provide expert recommendations and be responsible for defining, documenting, and executing appropriate technical solutions.

Collaborating with a Zendesk Professional Services project team—including Engagement Managers, Services Consultants, Developers, and Quality Assurance Analysts—you will act as the technical solution designer and owner within customer engagements.

What you'll be doing

• Customer Engagement: Deeply understand the customer’s use-case by asking insightful questions, capturing the business problem, and designing a successful Zendesk solution.

• Design and Configuration: Lead or participate in design and configuration sessions and workshops with customers and partners.

• Documentation: Produce Technical Design Documents, Technical Guidance Documents, and custom application or integration Specification Documents for Zendesk.

• Development Support: Collaborate with Zendesk Developers and Quality Assurance Analysts to support the development, testing, and defect resolution of custom solutions.

• Functional Design: Work with Zendesk Services Consultants and Engagement Managers to support the functional design and configuration of Zendesk.

• Training and Knowledge Transfer: Conduct technical training, handover, and knowledge transfer sessions.

• Project Communication: Liaise with the Zendesk Engagement Manager on project status, issues, and remaining effort on deliverables.

• Multi-Project Management: Lead, contribute to, or participate in multiple projects concurrently.

• Product Expertise: Maintain comprehensive technical product expertise across the entire Zendesk product line.

• Customer Escalations: Confidently respond to high-profile, high-impact customer escalations.

• Pre-Sales Support: Assist the pre-sales team by gathering technical requirements and providing solutions and estimates to customers.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in system, technical, or solution architecture.

• Proficiency with various architectures, including Web, Enterprise, and SaaS, as well as methodologies.

• Skilled in implementing and integrating RESTful and JSON APIs.

• Strong understanding of customer support processes and infrastructure.

• Excellent instincts and ability to interface seamlessly with senior-level executives.

• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and writing skills.

• Deep passion for customer service and its transformative potential for businesses.

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to multitask effectively.

• Capable of delivering consulting services both onsite and remotely.

• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree.

• Familiarity with backend programming languages (Ruby, Python, C#, etc.) and frontend languages/frameworks (JavaScript, React, Vue.js, JQuery, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience in configuring and implementing Zendesk solutions.

• Proficiency with the Zendesk App Framework.

• Expertise in Zendesk's technical capabilities, including SSO, API, and SDKs.

• Familiarity with design systems and tools such as Postman, Swagger, Figma, and Lucid.

• Certifications: Zendesk Support Administrator Expert Certification / Zendesk App Developer Certification

Where We Work
Zendesk is not your average tech company. We have all the stuff you’d expect - competitive pay, benefits, appealing offices, snacks, and more. We also have a culture deeply dedicated to enabling conversations and providing appreciative support. We help our staff keep work-life balance, from flexible hours to remote work, to the most dynamic parental leave plans on the market. Our Social Impact team is actively engaged in our community and enables us to invest thousands of hours with local community groups each year. We invest in diversity and inclusion so that our team reflects the diversity of the world around us. We have a whole crew dedicated to ensuring our workplace experience is top notch and welcoming for all.

Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.

The intelligent heart of customer experience

Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.

Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster global diversity, equity, & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law, please click here.

Zendesk endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] with your specific accommodation request.