Technical Architect - Salesforce

• Responsible for assessing, defining and championing the IT architecture strategies, principles, policies and standards in alignment with Cummins IT strategy and governing their use; coordinates with project teams to create, document, assess and/or validate the application and infrastructure architecture artifacts / designs for specific systems to meet Cummins security policies, governance, compliance and regulations and review the architecture artifacts with the stakeholders.
• As required, help drive and manage other Architects on the team and work on architecture activities.
• Assist leadership teams on Cummins IT strategic initiatives and Architecture initiatives as needed.
• Responsible for the research, evaluation, and selection of application, technology, and infrastructure standards.
• Leads the analysis of the technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Creates project and technology roadmaps and define migration plans to mitigate the gaps between the current and future state.
• Develops standards for the specific function or technology domain and defines design patterns and configurations that can be reused as building blocks for other solutions.
• Leads and facilitates the creation of governing principles to manage change and guide solution decisions for the enterprise.
• Ensures coherence and completeness across all Cummins Technology Reference Model (CTRM) disciplines.
• Maintains positive relationships with IT and business leaders to effectively promote and communicate IT architecture value proposition.
• Collaborates with IT stakeholders to apply IT strategy to architecture future state architecture and develops roadmaps to realize future state.
• Defines and ensures effective metrics to measure standards adoption, reuse, and demonstrate value.
  Maintain knowledge of emerging technology and software trends focused on driving comparative advantage for CMI.
• Cultivates strong relationships with industry experts; participates and may present at conferences and round tables.
• Performs complex cost/benefit analysis when researching future state capabilities.
• Coaches and mentors less senior Architects.
• Help drive and manage other Architects on the team and work on Security, Domain and/or Solution Architecture activities.
• Assist Cummins IT / Common Services / Architecture Leadership on Cummins IT strategic initiatives and Architecture initiatives as needed.
• Collaborates with project teams to understand requested capabilities and recommends the right set of technologies to meet the needs.
• Provides infrastructure capacity recommendations for new applications and systems.

Education, Licenses, Certifications

• College, university, or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or related subject, or relevant equivalent experience required. This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience

• Significant relevant experience required. 6-10 years of experience.
• At least 10+ years of industry experience and 5+ years as a Solution Architect or Technical Architect,
• Collaborate with programmer analysts, architects, end to end designers, business stakeholders to understand functional and technical requirements.
• Analyze requirements and architecture vision, to propose Salesforce and/or design solutions as required.
• Ensure all assumptions, dependencies and design considerations are documented, reviewed, and approved by the Central Design Authority.
• specializing in designing Salesforce digital platforms.
• Ongoing project involvement in crafting digital platforms utilizing Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Field Service, CPQ and Experience Cloud, coupled with a comprehensive grasp of Salesforce Core.
• Demonstrated capacity to motivate both our development teams and stakeholders.
• Authentic enthusiasm for Salesforce technology, understanding its potential benefits for both customers and end users.
• Willingness to pitch in to existing customers and accounts, understand the challenges and provide solutions for a win-win situation.
• A collaborative mindset, prioritizing teamwork and celebrating shared successes.

Skills

• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Drives engagement - Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
• Drives vision and purpose - Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action.
• Instills trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Strategic mindset - Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Architecture System Design - Defines and develops architecture deliverables, artifacts and building blocks (e. g. conceptual models, logical models, physical network designs, etc. ) by applying architecture principles through the use of an architecture development framework and methodology that enables the organization to transform its systems in a controlled manner in response to business needs.
• Solution Functional Fit Analysis - Composes and decomposes a system into its component parts using procedures, tools and work aides for the purpose of studying how well the component parts were designed, purchased and configured to interact holistically to meet business, technical, security, governance and compliance requirements.
• System Solution Architecture - Creates solution designs and patterns using the Cummins Technical Reference Model (CTRM), CLEAN standards, and existing reference patterns to maintain alignment to Cummins standards.