Salesforce Platform Architect

Resp & Qualifications

• Own the end to end architecture of the Salesforce Platform and build the technology for taking the Platform to all customers (internal/external).
• Partner end-to-end with Product Managers / Owners, Enterprise Architects and Business Stakeholders to understand customer requirements and translate these to a platform roadmap and future state platform architecture.
• Manages all architecture artifacts, standards, states, and deliverables together with the architect teams, working closely together with the Design Authority.
• Advise on cloud-based solution design.
• Lead and mentor project team members.
• Enforce sound development practices and ensure the quality delivery of enterprise solutions.
• Work collaboratively and have very strong communication skills, especially in teaching complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking.
• Identify and lead internal strategic initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serving as an active contributor to the overall knowledge base and expertise of the community.
• Hands-on configuration and development on the Salesforce platform.
• Delivers High Level Architecture, Technical Solution Design Document, Environment Mgmt Plan, Development Policy, and configured and tested user stories.
• Follow and help define coding standards. Lead code reviews during projects to ensure quality and appropriate design patterns are followed.
• Ensure that all the new functionalities are built with Salesforce standard features and target architecture.
• Day-to-day guidance and coaching for solution and integration teams.
• Establish and control definitions, rules, principles, and standards for teams.
• Assess, review and decisioning on all solution architecture designs.
• Assess and review team capabilities and capability enablement plans.
• Manage the technical delivery of custom development, integrations, and data migration elements of a Salesforce implementation.

• Ensure that all the new functionalities are built with Salesforce standard features and target architecture.
• Day-to-day guidance and coaching for solution and integration teams.
• Establish and control definitions, rules, principles, and standards for teams.
• Assess, review and decisioning on all solution architecture designs.

• Ensure Salesforcecapabilities are fully leveraged to drive world-class sales and serviceprocesses.
• Design, document, build, test and deploy enhancements to Salesforce.
• Maintain user roles and profiles, security settings, access settings etc. (User Profiles, Role Hierarchy, Sharing Rules and Security) in Salesforce.
• Create and manage custom objects, fields, formulas, validation rules, custom workflow, and approval processes in Salesforce.
• Research changes in upcoming versions of Salesforce and other integrated applications; provide recommendations when necessary to enhance efficiency and productivity.
• Develop a plan for the structure of the database to support sales and marketing activities/reporting and enable growth.
• Provide end user support for day-to-day CRM system maintenance.
• Diagnose and solve technical problems.

• Develop Salesforce platform org strategy, roadmap, and support defining the platform vision and OKRs.
• Provide input to project, product, and enterprise technology roadmaps. Provide regular reporting on progress, issues, and opportunities related to architecture domain.
• Participate in valuestream intake vetting and technology guidance related to Salesforce.
• Absorb/expand/build strategy and standards (data, org, devops) including from existing artifacts.
• Incubate/bring in/design architecture ideas for Salesforce platform to support realization of value.
• Lead a team of salesforce admins/developers in the design, development and implementation of multiple applications across orgs and sandboxes.
• Develop/analyze interface design documents and ensure adherence to devsec ops practices and policies.
• Support the valuestream product teams in designing, solutioning and adherence to Salesforce best practices and standards.
• Lead Salesforce platform routines with other product teams.
• Review platform health working with Salesforce and product teams.

• 8 years Software design and development, software test and evaluation, software requirements management.
• 6+ years working in Salesforce adminstration, development and architecture.
• Salesforce Technical/Domain Architect Certification Path (see ;/li>
• Experience with relational databases, data cleansing and reporting tools.
• Must be technically savvy, at least some experience in coding is an asset. Must have an appetite for hands-on configuration on the platform.

• Extensive understanding of the Salesforce CRM system including Sales, Service and Health Cloud.
• Ability to architect reusable packaging and packaging dependencies to reusable code across multiple orgs to reduce code redundancies.
• Decomposes functional and technical requirements into conceptual/architectural design, prototype, and diagrams/solutions.
• Identifies technical risks and develops mitigation strategies; introduces and recommends industry best practices and standards for the project.
• Experience writing complicated Apex logic that utilizes visual force pages and the new lightning web components.
• Experience/knowledge with connectors: Salesforce, Snowflake, JDBC, S3, File Pulse, Oracle/Azure Blob connectors.
• Experience using Visual Studio code to build DX projects, creating scratch orgs, sandboxes, and package (unmanaged, managed, and second-generation packaging).
• Evaluates and assists in the selection and procurement of hardware and software technologies and serves as a mentor for junior developers.
• Works with stakeholders as well as technical and analytical counterparts to define constraints and develop requirements and concept of operations documentation.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies ( e.g. AWS, Azure, Salesforce).
• Knowledge of database technologies (e.g. cloud, SQL, Oracle, Mongo DB, PostgreSQL, etc.).
• Fundamental knowledge of software engineers’ best practices, agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong experience with Deployment/Continuous Integration/ Continuous Testing/ Continuous Delivery processes and tools and have expertise in CI/CD tools and framework.
• Experience with deploying a global application and configuration management.
• Reviewing the work of other developers and providing feedback.
• Ability to communicate technical requirements to all levels of expertise.
• Proficient in establishing and maintaining good working relationships.
• Knowledge and understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Proficient with integrating complex and/or existing systems.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.