At TTEC Digital, we coach clients to ensure their employees feel valued, and fully supported, because an amazing customer experience is an employee first process. Our vision is the same, a place where employees know they can thrive.

TTEC Digital seeks a Zendesk Solution Architect to join our organization! This is a 100% remote opportunity.

As the Zendesk Solution Architect, working remotely in the United States, you will serve as aplayer-coachacross pre-sales, solutioning, delivery oversight, and strategic advisory. This role sits at the center of ourCRM strategy within the broaderCCaaS,hyperscaler, and Customer Experience (CX) ecosystem, supporting a cross-functional “pod” of technologists aligned to accelerating value for our clients.

The ideal candidate bringsdeep technical and functional experience across the full Zendesk suite—Support, Guide, Sell, Explore, Sunshine, Workforce Management, QA, integrations, and broaderCCaaSadjacency. This roleis responsible forshaping solution architecture in early-stage pursuits, guiding our teams through best-in-class implementations, and helping to mature our Zendesk GTM and delivery capabilities.

You will partner closely with delivery, sales, alliances, and cross-cloud technologists to ensure a unified CX perspective across Salesforce, Zendesk,CCaaSplatforms (Genesys, Amazon Connect, NICE, Five9,etc), andhyperscalers(AWS, Azure, Google).

What You Will Do:

Pre-Sales & Solution Engineering (40%)

Serve astheprimary technical architectforZendesk-aligned opportunities across North America.

Lead discovery, solution shaping, use-case definition, integration patterns, and scoping for the full Zendesk portfolio.

Partner with Sales, Alliances, and practice leadership to support RFP responses, demos, client briefings, and workshops.

Translate business goals into platform architecture that fits within a modern, multi-cloud CX ecosystem.

Delivery Leadership & Player-Coach Enablement (40%)

Provide architectural oversight on active engagements to ensure quality, scalability, and alignment to best practices.

Mentor a pod of multi-cloud technologists across CRM,CCaaS, and AI domains; elevate skills and raise architectural maturity.

Create repeatable assets, templates, reference architectures, and estimation frameworks.

Guide teams on the intersection of Zendesk withCCaaSand enterprise systems (CRM, data, AI/ML, integrations).

Strategic Practice Support (20%)

Help refine and mature ourCRM strategy as it relates toCCaaSevolution,hyperscalerpartnership motion, and emerging CX trends.

Provide thought leadership on platform evolution, releases, CX orchestration, data connectivity, and AI-driven service models.

Represent the Zendesk capability within internal and external forums, partner communities, and GTM programming.

What You Will Bring:

5–10+ years of experiencedesigning and implementing Zendesk solutions across enterprise environments.

Hands-onexpertisewithZendesk Support, Guide, Sell, Explore, Sunshine (CRM & custom objects), WFM/QA, and App Framework.

Strong understandingofmodernCCaaSplatforms(e.g.,Amazon Connect, Genesys Cloud CX, NICE, Five9) and how Zendesk integrates with them.

Familiarity with multi-cloud andhyperscalerecosystems (AWS strongly preferred).

Proven experience inpre-sales solutioning, includingdiscoveryleadership, scoping, architecture design, and client-facing presentations.

Experience leading delivery teams, reviewing solutions, and mentoring developers/administrators.

Ability to translate CX strategy into technical implementation paths across CRM,CCaaS, and data/AI layers.

Strong communication, executive-facing presence, and the ability to simplify complex concepts.

Preferred Qualifications

Zendesk certifications across Support, Admin, and Developer tracks.

Experience with CRM platforms (Salesforce highly preferred) and multi-system orchestration.

Experience building custom apps, middleware integrations, and REST API frameworks.

Prior experience in a consulting or systems integrator environment.

Additional Information

Please note: We are only accepting applications from candidates residing in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, DC, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program. Actual compensation offers to a candidate may vary based upon geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill levels.

Benefits available to eligible employees include the following:

- Medical, dental, vision

- tax-advantaged health care accounts

- financial and income protection benefits

- paid time off (PTO) and wellness time off.

This job posting will remain open until we have identified an adequate applicant pool. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply early.

About Us

TTEC Digital and our 1,800+ employees, pioneer engagement and growth solutions that fuel the exceptional customer experience (CX). Our sister company, TTEC Engage, is a 60,000+ employee service company, with customer service representatives located around the world. TTEC Holdings Inc. is the parent company for both Digital and Engage. When clients have a holistic need, they can draw from these independently managed centers of excellence, TTEC Digital and TTEC Engage.

We are also delighted to share that TTEC has been awarded the Great Place To Work 2024-2025 certification based on outstanding employee experience across 14 countries.

TTEC is a proud equal opportunity employer where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability. TTEC has fully embraced and is committed to expanding our diverse and inclusive workforce. We strive to reflect the communities we serve while delivering amazing service and technology centered around humanity.

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