Senior Technical Architect

Position Description: A Salesforce Technical Architect will serve as the manager of complex technology implementations, with an eye toward constant reengineering and refactoring to ensure the simplest and most elegant system possible to accomplish the desired need; understand how to maximize leverage of the open source community to deploy systems on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers; be comfortable sharing knowledge across a multi-disciplinary team and working within various methodologies; and be a full partner in the determination of vision, objectives, and success criteria. The Salesforce Technical Architect will architect the overall system by using prototyping and proof of concepts, which may include: modern programming languages (e.g., Ruby, Python, Node.js) and web frameworks (e.g., Django, Rails), modern front-end web programming techniques (e.g., HTML5, CSS3, RESTful APIs) and frameworks (e.g., Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery), relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), and "NoSQL" databases (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB), automated configuration management (e.g., Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt), continuous integration/deployment, and continuous monitoring solutions; use version control systems (e.g., Git and GitHub); ensure strategic alignment of technical design and architecture to meet business growth and direction, and stay on top of emerging technologies; decompose business and system architecture to support clean-interface multi-team development; develop product roadmaps, backlogs, and measurable success criteria, and write user stories (i.e., can establish a path to delivery for breaking down stories) and clearly communicate and work with stakeholders at every level. Skills Required: The Salesforce Technical Architect will possess knowledge and experience in analyses and development of conceptual designs and detail designs; developing JBOSS Messaging and connectivity with Spring-JMS connectivity; designing DB schema as per the requirements and in sync with the old system; implementing the daily and weekly jobs that interact with external interfaces; coordinating with business stakeholders to understand their requirements; communicate with cross-divisional personnel at both team and executive levels to understand performance measurement methodologies; and direct team members in compiling business requirements and executing project milestones. Skills Preferred: We're seeking support to set-up salesforce primarily as a CRM and project management tool for a small and nimble team working with philanthropy to support cross-sector collaborations with the County of Los Angeles. This will be our team's first experience with a CRM and we seek a consultant with patience and an ability to translate to a non-tech audience. Experience Required: This classification must have a minimum of eight (8) years of experience in Salesforce systems development, analysis, programming or testing. Experience Preferred: While the Center for Strategic Partnerships is a part of the County of Los Angeles, our role is to act a bit like a small non-profit, we prefer consultants who have experience working with the non-profit sector to support their fundraising. Education Required: This classification requires the possession of a bachelor's degree in an IT-related or Engineering field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis. Education Preferred: Additional Information: This role is fully remote. This role is a project-based role and vendors will need to communicate to candidates that this role will be completed over an allotted number of hours. The hours that will be allocated for this role is 20 hours. The Center for Strategic Partnerships will be flexible on the hours per week for this project. The end date is contingent upon completion of the project.