Salesforce Industries Technical Architect

Salesforce Industries Technical Architect

This is an exciting opportunity to join Salesforce Industries Team and grow your career in this exciting and accelerating space. Our team is growing rapidly and is looking to add experienced Salesforce Technical Leads with industry experience to join our team as associate managers. This role will have day-to-day management of our Salesforce technical team, onshore and offshore. You'll oversee programmatic elements, integration, data migration and we'll need you to have a strong understanding of the Salesforce platform, and basic to intermediate understanding of integrations, single sign, security, etc. (Mulesoft, Informatica, other ETL tools a huge plus). You'll coordinate offshore usage with a solution architect and project manager. You'll lead development of customized components, so we're looking for candidates who can get their hands dirty and jump in and write code if necessary (Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Components, front end web technologies). For now, all business travel, international and domestic, is currently restricted to client-essential sales/delivery activity only. Please note: The safety and well-being of our people continues to be the top priority, and our decisions around travel are informed by government COVID-19 response directives, recommendations from leading health authorities and guidance from a number of infectious disease experts.

Typical day snapshot – technical architect:

• Collaborate with functional team to determine how best to implement solution (decisions around declarative vs programmatic vs AppExchange, etc).
• Escalation point for technical issues.
• Solution components that are outside of the Salesforce platform:
• Expert platform knowledge.
• Security.
• Integration (including a technology/not just) and data migration.
• End to end technical solutions.
• Play TA role on projects: typically, part-time on more than 1 project at a time.
• People manager have regular 1-on-1s, perform annual reviews, etc.
• Sales support: help scope, solution, and estimate sales opportunities alongside a delivery lead. Assist in SOW creation, etc.
• Practice development: mentor resources, take on leadership roles to expand overall practice capabilities, etc.

Basic qualifications:

• A minimum of 2 years of experience developing Salesforce customizations (Apex/VF), integrations, and developing and executing data migrations.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience creating the technical architecture for complex Salesforce implementations.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in technology implementation for full lifecycle enterprise software projects.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Preferred skills:

• Salesforce industries certifications and experience in communications, financial services, health, utilities, public sector or consumer goods.
• Strong background in cloud computing solutions – cloud computing strategy, systems design, implementation and management.
• Consulting experience with medium to large consulting firms focusing on cloud computing related consulting (storage, SaaS, multi-tenant computing, large scale computing environments, etc).
• Demonstrated knowledge of XML, SQL, and EAI processes.
• Familiarity with multiple implementation standards and methodologies.
• Programming languages – APEX, VisualForce, familiarity with ANT and Eclipse tools for working with the IDE.
• Salesforce.com and other certifications, required.
• Very strong work ethic with a customer service focus (high intensity).
• 15+ years of consulting experience preferred; executive level sales support experience in consulting/professional services.

Preferred credentials:

• Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Desire to work in an information systems environment.
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent leadership and management skills.