Salesforce Architect - IT

Job description

This position is responsible for ensuring alignment of project specific designs/solution with application architecture roadmap; supporting project and/or product teams on functional and technical solution/design activities; defining the interaction between application packages, databases, and middleware systems to optimize product functional coverage; acting as solution architect for products that require integration into the application and align with organization and client vision.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Design Complex Enterprise Solutions using the Salesforce Platform

- Negotiate solutions to complex problems with our clients internal and external

- Drive the creation of technical solution document and design documents leveraging Salesforce's best practices

- Provide technical guidance to our application development team

- Advise and mentor diverse internal and vendor teams

- Collaborate with lead developers in setting standards and driving quality coding practices

- Establish technical best practices and/or align with organization best practices

- Maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies/products/trends related to architectural solutions

- Communicate solution options to business owners/stakeholders (e.g. architecture reviews)

- Incorporate software and system architecture into conceptual designs while ensuring alignment with enterprise technology standards (e.g. solution patterns, application frameworks, technology roadmaps)

- Researching, identifying and recommending innovative solutions

- Driving solution creation activities by collaborating across cross-functional teams

- Developing solution diagrams, reference architecture, etc.

- Creating estimates for potential projects

- Influences the overall architecture of multiple projects simultaneously

- Understands all aspects of the technology stack for each project and the details of integrations between multiple systems

Required Qualifications:

Salesforce Certifications

- 10+ years of experience in IT Solution Delivery and architecture

- 5+ years or Expert-Level understanding of the Salesforce Force.com (http://force.com/) Platform

- 5+ years of experience with Apex, Visualforce, Triggers, SOQL & SOSL

- 3+ years of experience and Deep understanding of API, standards and frameworks, including RESTful web services

- 2+ years of experience in iterative and/or agile and/or scrum development

- Experience building applications for Salesforce Lightning Experience

- Strong verbal communication skills, strong work ethic, and a positive attitude

- English verbal and written proficiency

- Expert-level understanding of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, health cloud (a plus), and other packages

Preferred Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business, or in a related field

- Advanced Developer Certification and/or Salesforce Technical Architect Certification is a huge plus

- Healthcare industry experience

- Health Cloud experience and community portal experience

- Experience with Salesforce Einstein

- Experience with other cloud platforms such as Service Now, etc.

- Experience in DevOps and/or continuous deployment and/or integration process and tools (Jenkins, RallyDev, etc.)

- Strong presentation and PowerPoint skills

- Problem solving / analytical thinking

- Ability to tie together solutions across systems.