Salesforce Technical Architect

Who We Are:
We love Salesforce, it's our craft, and we want to make a Salesforce evangelist out of everyone. We're the kind of people who learn about and experiment with Salesforce architecture in our spare time, create and run local Salesforce user groups and geek out on every page of the release notes 3 times a year.

Created by Salesforce thought leaders on the basis that we don't want to be everything to everyone - we want to be the preferred Salesforce partner our customers can count on for the lifetime of their Salesforce platform.

So, what do we do? We are a full-service Salesforce consulting and implementation partner with longstanding expertise in Automotive, Sales, Service, Experience Cloud & Managed Services and over two decades of experience translating customer needs into project success.

Who Will Love This Job:

We are seeking a seasoned Salesforce Technical Architect to join our team. As a Salesforce Technical Architect, you will be responsible for designing and implementing robust, scalable, and secure solutions on the Salesforce platform with a focus to build custom reusable web components, data integrations and solve technical challenges for multiple customers. You will serve as a lead in a multi-functional team that addresses strategic business initiatives involving customer relationship management, scoped projects and managed services.

To ensure success in this role, you should be familiar with Salesforce event-driven messaging bus, development tools, APIs, and be comfortable with hands-on development for 70-80% of the time working closely with Solution Architects, Solution Engineers, Lead Consultants and Project Managers. You will work with a growing team of technical professionals with a critical position to allow the Salesforce product and development team to deliver solutions at scale without introducing more tech debt for our customers.

What You'll Do:

• Influence a growing team while acting as a technical guide, being able to speak conceptually, document architecturally and be comfortable doing hands on coding as well
• Design scalable solutions using a mixture of configuration and code to support business functions and product goals, knowing how to work in and around the limits of the platform
• Create and maintain Salesforce-centric architecture diagrams, including system landscape, ERD, integration sequence flows, login flows, etc. of current state and future
• Communicate with Team Leads, Solution Architects, Lead Consultants and Project Managers to ensure a cohesive technical strategy is designed and executed upon for our customer engagements
• Be part of the entire development lifecycle of a product from the intake, architecture, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• Support and maintain current Salesforce instance(s), including the data model, coding best practices, user permissions, integrations with third party and internal applications, security settings
• Design and implement integrations between Salesforce and external systems, utilizing Salesforce APIs, middleware tools, and custom development. Identify integration patterns, recommend integration technologies, and ensure data integrity and security
• Possess in-depth knowledge and understanding of the Salesforce platform, including its declarative capabilities, data model, security model, and integration options. Stay up to date with the latest Salesforce releases, features, and functionalities, and provide guidance on leveraging new capabilities
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including solution design documents, technical specifications, data models, and architectural diagrams. Ensure that all technical documentation is accurate, up-to-date, and easily understandable by technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, providing guidance, recommendations, and explanations as needed
• Stay current with emerging Salesforce and industry trends, best practices, and technologies. Identify opportunities for process improvement, system optimization, and automation to enhance the overall efficiency, performance, and user experience of Salesforce solutions

Skills Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems or related field
• Salesforce Certified System Architect or Salesforce Certified Technical Architect certifications preferred
• 5+ years' experience in Salesforce Development including Custom Objects, Apex, Triggers, Web Services, Visualforce, REST APIs, SOAP Web Services and Migration Tools
• 4+ years' experience in building custom UI solutions using Salesforce Lightning design system (SLDS), Salesforce Lightning UI, LWC, web technologies (HTML 5, CSS3, XML, jQuery, JavaScript)
• Experience with Salesforce Platform events, Streaming API, Change data capture
• Experience with Salesforce APIs, Salesforce connectors, middleware solutions like Kafka, MuleSoft

Be apart of the SaltClick difference. Our expert teams collaborate to build solutions that help our customers thrive, not only in the end product we deliver, but in how we work. Enjoy the experience when you choose SaltClick. Technology is hard. We make people feel better about using technology.

We invest in our people and our people invest in us. We're constantly focused on our four Core Values

• Growth Mindset
• Relationship First
• Our Work Has Meaning
• Win Together.

We empower our people who then power our rocket ship. We're going places! Come join us!

Last updated on Oct 31, 2023