Salesforce Solutions Architect

W2 ONLY. NO CORP - CORP / C2C.

12 month contract. Potential to extend.

Overview:

The Salesforce Solutions Architect is responsible for supporting client’s wide initiatives with an emphasis on infrastructure architecture, security, and application architecture. Play a critical role in designing and overseeing the implementation of integrated technology solutions that support the organization’s long-term goals and will be deeply involved in daily work across all business units, regularly interacting with both stakeholders and subject matter experts with a primary focus on the Local Public Health (LPH) project.

Role:

• Design Salesforce architecture solutions spanning business processes, hardware, operating systems, applications, networking environments, and platforms.
• Develop Salesforce technical frameworks and components that address common needs and can potentially be leveraged enterprise wide.
• Lead and collaborate with a solution integrator to design, develop, and implement a Salesforce solution, using Salesforce components, including Public Sector Solutions, experience Cloud, Service Cloud, ensuring they align with client requirement and Salesforce best practices.
• Responsible for providing Salesforce technical architecture leadership.
• Work closely with the Enterprise Applications Support team to architect Salesforce solutions across the current Salesforce implementation, legacy platforms, and net new development.
• Review of all current implementations to identify gaps, risks and recommend improvements and optimization areas includes custom code and integrations.
• Integrate Salesforce with external systems using APIs, middleware, and ETL tools.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects and middleware engineers to define scalable, extensible, cost-effective, and standards-based solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Define and document Salesforce functional and nonfunctional details, technical architecture, and design specifications for end-to-end infrastructure with a focus on architectural standards, growth, performance, flexibility, reliability, scalability, and security.
• Build out a cost-effective infrastructure architecture based on the Salesforce platform.
• Present facts and recommendations effectively in both oral and written form.
• Consult with business leadership to develop and maintain an architecture design in alignment with business strategy and objectives.
• Consult with infrastructure teams, applications teams, data architects, security architects, and strategic partners to create an architecture accommodating the business strategy.
• Conduct vendor code reviews, enforce coding standards, and mentor junior developers to maintain high- quality code.
• Review and lead technical design and provide architecture insight/recommendations on proposed feature additions.
• Review technical team deliverables for compliance with architecture standards, guidelines and leverages best practices.
• Articulate and present point of views on Salesforce product releases, roadmap features and their fit to LPH implementations.
• Guide developers on client’s in Salesforce best practices and principles.
• Provide reviews of technical deliverables and identify gaps/areas for improvement.
• Map proposed functional requirements to Salesforce features and functionality.
• Provide governance and best practices/standards supporting the platform adoption and full application lifecycle (design, development, change control, UAT, deployment and support).
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Participate in technical audits, design reviews, and recommend improvements.
• Review current SDLC process and identify gaps, risks and recommend improvements and optimization areas.

Qualifications:

• 5 - 10+ years Salesforce architecture experience.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• ETL experience.
• Git version control.
• CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of the Salesforce SOAP API, REST API, and BULK API.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to mentor team members.
• Ability to be employed as a W2 with TechnoSmarts.