Salesforce Solutions Architect
Remote
Digital Services Team /
Remote full-time /
Remote
*This is a contingent position*
We are seeking a Salesforce Solutions Architect to join our growing Salesforce team. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated individual with strong problem-solving skills and able to collaborate cross-functionally in a nationally distributed remote environment.
Responsibilities:
- Coaching, training, and mentoring a team of engineers in their day-to-day activities, with a strong focus on feedback and growth, while unblocking issues and providing technical guidance and clarification.
- Designing end-to-end Salesforce solutions considering functional requirements, non-functional requirements, data integrity, integration needs, and user experience
- Overseeing the implementation of Salesforce solutions, ensuring that the technical teams meet the architectural design and business requirements, and ensuring proper maintenance strategies of application architecture
- Leading options analyses, proof-of-concept implementations, and validations for proposed solutions
- Assisting in developing a technical roadmap for the program
- Identifying risks, managingchange, and designing cloud solutions that are efficient and scalable
- Gathering technical requirements and understand user stories to translate dependencies to the technical delivery team
- Driving solution meetings with internal and external stakeholders
- Communicating effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders on business vision, architectural issues, product,engineering standards, and lead documentation efforts
- Staying up-to-date on Salesforce trends, releases, new features, and product roadmaps
- Setting and enforcing Salesforce best practices and coding standards that promote code reusability, maintainability, and performance
- Implementing mature unit and integration testing to ensure systems work as intended.
- Promoting cross-team collaborations and disseminating information through knowledge sharing sessions, communities of practice, etc.
- Promoting and enforcing an automation-first approach to reduce manual configurations within the Salesforce platform using custom Apex scripts, Robotic Process Automation, etc.
- Supporting hiring efforts for the program, including conducting resume screens, technical interviews, and culture-and-values assessments
- Writing code!
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
- 8+ years of experiencein IT architecture, design, and development
- Minimum of 7years of experience architecting complex Salesforce solutions
- Hands-on Salesforce development experience
- Experience managing a team of technical professionals
- Strong development experience of custom solutions on Salesforce platform working with Lightning Web Components, Apex Triggers, Apex Classes, Visualforce, SOQL
- Experience working with Copado CI/CD pipelines and knowledgeable on Copado best practices
- Experience with object-oriented programming design patterns and Salesforce data modeling best practices
- Experience working on/with an Agile and SAFe team
- Awareness of critical concepts in Security, DevSecOps and Agile principles
- Experience developing reporting and dashboards in Salesforce
- Excellent presentation skills with the ability to collaborate with team members and business stakeholders
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience working in multi-team development environments
- Knowledgeable on modular development practices and infrastructure-as-code concepts
- Experience with Copado Robotic Process Automation is a plus
- Experience in multi-cloud architectures and AWS cloud development is a plus
- Experience in civic technology and with government contracting is a plus
Desired Qualifications:
- Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) or Salesforce Certified Application Architect credentials
- Copado Fundamentals I and Copado Fundamentals II
