Salesforce Architect
Posted 2 days ago by 1757820385
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Salesforce Architect role involves collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements, designing and customizing Salesforce solutions, and leading a team of developers and admins. The position requires extensive experience in Salesforce architecture, integration techniques, and enterprise solutions, along with strong communication skills. The architect will also evaluate and recommend appropriate solutions while ensuring compliance with best practices. Supervisory experience and relevant Salesforce certifications are preferred.
Key Responsibilities:
- Meet with stakeholders to understand requirements and perform gap analysis.
- Architect, configure, and customize Salesforce applications/solutions.
- Integrate Salesforce applications using REST/SOAP and other techniques.
- Implement large-scale enterprise solutions, including integration and data migrations.
- Design and configure communities, ensuring UI/UX compliance.
- Respond to RFI/RFQ/RFP and coordinate with proposal teams.
- Build demo solutions for Sales/Business Development teams.
- Evaluate and recommend appropriate solutions like Platform vs Service cloud.
- Conduct architecture and design reviews to support internal teams and clients.
- Follow best practices for continuous improvement and future upgrades.
- Lead a team of Salesforce developers and admins across multiple projects.
Key Skills:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering.
- At least ten years of related experience; twelve years preferred.
- Five years of Salesforce experience and five years in IT.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Solution Architect experience using Agile approaches.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture and declarative capabilities.
- Experience integrating with third-party solutions using REST and MuleSoft.
- Supervisory experience in leading Salesforce developers and admins (nice to have).
- Salesforce Certified Application Architect or System Architect required.
- Salesforce Certified Technical Architect desired.
- Experience with Contact Center capabilities and related tools preferred.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Meet with stakeholders to understand requirements, determine design and perform gap analysis to identify appropriate deployment strategy
Architect, configure and customize Salesforce application/solution as per business requirements and expectations using out-of-box features and Salesforce platform (force.com)
Clear understanding of integrating Salesforce application/solution using natively available integration techniques like REST/SOAP etc.
Demonstrate knowledge and expertise in implementing large scale enterprise solutions including integration and data migrations.
Design and configure communities including coordinating UI/UX/508 compliance/security activities
Capable of responding to RFI/RFQ/RFP along with architecting, estimating, sizing and pricing in coordination with proposal team and Salesforce.
Able to build demo solutions as requested by Sales/Business Development team and participate in orals as necessary.
Evaluate, ensure and recommend appropriate solution is leveraged like Platform vs Service cloud
Brainstorm solutions, conduct architecture and design reviews to support internal teams as well as end clients.
Follow best practices and continuous improvement process to identify future upgrade issues and design considerations
Demonstrate breadth of knowledge including Tableau, Einstein Analytics, MuleSoft and latest offerings from Salesforce.
Lead a team of Salesforce developers and admins along with multiple projects
Educational and Experience Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering from an accredited college or university; Additional experience would be considered in lieu of degree
At least ten (10) years of related experience; Twelve (12) years preferred
At least five (6) years of Salesforce experience and 5+ years in IT
Excellent verbal and written communication to technical audiences, non-technical audiences, and senior management
Solution Architect experience on implementation projects using Agile approaches
Excellent understanding of Salesforce architecture, declarative capabilities, platform configuration and related limits and how they influence design
Experience integrating with 3rd party solutions using industry standard techniques like REST and experience in using integration tools like MuleSoft
Nice to have:
Supervisory experience in leading Salesforce developers and admins
Salesforce Certified Application Architect or System Architect required
Salesforce Certified Technical Architect desired
Experience in architecting solutions that are aligned with Contact Center capabilities are preferred with tools such as SuccessKPI, AWS Connect, Service Cloud Voice and Salesforce Service Cloud