Salesforce Solutions Architect - Financial Services Cloud

Responsibilities: Works with Clients to understand their functional and technical requirements to engineer solutions. Works with client's architecture and technical leads for validating proposed design. Prepare solution design, ERD, integration strategy, document design notes for stories and review options with technical architects and developers to validate. Review implementation and ensure quality of design. Provides technical guidance for the development of applications to support business and product strategies. Analyze high level project needs, draft solution, prepare roadmap and list use cases, assist in preparing estimates. Works closely with our Client's internal team of Project Managers, Business Analysts and End Users to architect technology solutions that meet their current needs. Lead technical requirements gathering sessions, oversee and approve creation and maintenance of application and system documentation used in design, testing or programming efforts and manage integration. Assess current architecture; designing secure, high-performance technical solutions. Communicate technical solutions and design trade-offs effectively to business stakeholders; and providing a delivery framework that ensures quality and success. Enforce use of industry-accepted best practices and development standards to ensure quality delivery. Stay current with Salesforce.com best practices, support mechanisms, procedures and limitations. Support sales efforts on new business development pursuits, assisting with proposals, responses, architecture assessments and technical qualification Qualifications: 3 years Salesforce Solution Architecture experience including the design of technical solutions that span multiple platforms and include data and systems integration. Must have Insurance domain experience. Should have experience with Salesforce Industries - Financial Services Cloud. 3 years involvement with the developing custom Salesforce applications. 2 years articulating design considerations, trade-offs, benefits, and recommendations for a technical architecture. 5 years business systems analysis experience. Significant experience providing technical guidance for the development of applications to support business and product strategies. Ability to lead technical requirements gathering sessions, oversee and approve creation and maintenance of application and system documentation used in design, testing or programming efforts and manage integration. Salesforce systems integration and implementation experience. Strong experience preparing documentation using tools such as Lucidchart, Visio, Word and Excel. Perform document grooming and size User Stories in Agile management platforms such as JIRA or Rally. Education: Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent work experience.