Salesforce Technical Architect - Apex/Visual Force (9-14 yrs)

Job Description :

- Technical Architect successfully designs and manages the delivery of complex Salesforce solutions for our customers

- These technologies include- but are not necessarily limited to Salesforce.com products and APIs, Apex/Visualforce, Lightning, mobile development technologies, and integration/ETL technologies

- You are both a big picture thinker and in-depth problem solver, your knowledge and skills are both broad and deep

- You take pride in designing systems that stand up to high volumes and won't fail at critical points

- You have a good mix of technical and enterprise skills when it comes to architecting a solution

- The solutions you design are built for the long-term and will scale with the customers growth plans seamlessly

- You have proven experience integrating systems via API s as we'll as a strong development background

Responsibilities :

- Collaborate with client stakeholders to define requirements, deliverables, and set and manage expectations

- Translate business requirements into we'll-architected solutions that best leverage the Salesforce platform

- Lead technical design sessions; architect and document technical solutions aligned with client business objectives; identify gaps between clients current and desired end states

- Provide oversight and governance of Salesforce projects

- Follow and help define coding standards. Lead code reviews during projects to ensure quality
and appropriate design patterns are followed

- Manage the technical delivery of custom development, integrations, and data migration elements of a Salesforce implementation

- Maintain a target billable utilization aligned to the role

- Ability to understand a project and deep dive to debug issues

- From time-to-time, the TA may be expected to partake in other pre-sales activities such as discovery and technical deep-dive sessions, Proof-Of-Concept (POC) development with prospects

- Liaise with Salesforce product teams to support client implementations

- Travels to client sites for projects, estimated 50-75%

Requirements :

- Degree or equivalent proven experience required.

- Experience will be evaluated based on the core proficiencies for the role (eg extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc)

- 9-14 years CRM experience with a minimum of 6 years on the Salesforce platform

- Expert level understanding of the Salesforce product suite, including Sales, Service, Community, Marketing, and Community Clouds.

- Understanding of systems architecture and ability to design scalable performance-driven solutions

- Understanding of key design patterns and large data volume limitations and best practices

- Understanding of data sharing and visibility considerations and how these play into platform architecture

- Familiarity with platform authentication patterns (SAML, SSO, OAuth)

- Knowledge of data integration tools and experience integrating Salesforce with different business systems (ETL, CPQ, marketing automation, reporting, etc)

- Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies

- Experience with platform security capabilities (TLS, SSL)

- Expert level experience defining the system architecture landscape, identifying gaps between current and desired end-states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will enable achievement of the desired business outcomes

- Strong background in design/development of large web-based systems, or complete software product lifecycle exposure

- Active Salesforce certifications or ability to achieve relevant certifications upon hire