Job Title: Salesforce Technical Architect
Location: Canada
Exp: 9-16 Years exp.
Comp: 160K-190K
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
• Conducts business with the utmost professionalism including:
• Fulfills commitments consistently on-time and proactively escalates commitments that are in jeopardy.
• Responds promptly to requests and never allows queries to fall into a "black hole."
• Attends meetings on time, always.
• Judges the tradeoffs with technology and feasibility and makes choices that fit the constraints of the project.
• Familiar with project management fundamentals and fulfilling the project management role on projects.
• Designs and implements business technology solutions focused on cloud-based business applications, specifically, Salesforce, and other custom solutions.
• Direct involvement and/or oversight of developing business requirements, specifications, process flows, application design, application configuration, testing and deployment.
• Works directly with clients to lead projects, facilitates business process analysis sessions, develops and delivers key components of technology solution.
• Provides mentoring and guidance to other team members, including offshore team members.
• Serves as subject matter expert.
• Confident and willing to challenge a customer and guide the customer towards the appropriate solution for their needs and push back if a customer is asking for solutions that aren't in their best interest.
• Ability to guide customer towards creative uses of standard cloud software functionality to meet business requirements instead of simply relying on custom code solutions
• Functioning as leader within the organization and industry. Examples may include subject matter expert, Community leader, Silver Lining lead, speaker at industry events.
• Participates actively in Discussions, building a reputation as a go-to resource for the toughest problems. Contributes to the Asset Libraries, Cloud Management Center, sponsors new employees, and presents Cool Code at Lunch and/or Continuing Ed sessions.
• Provides pre-sales support as requested.
• Achieve published company utilization targets.
• Oversee technical decisions and activities of Appirio project teams including dividing up work, assigning to team members, and monitoring for quality.
• Understand platform limitations and design alternatives to work around limitations
• Identify when business requirements conflict with technical capabilities
• Provide constructive feedback to project teams
• Monitor technical deliverables for consistent quality as well as compliance with Appirio standards
• Partner with project managers to monitor project status and risk areas
• Demonstrate knowledge to design and build high-performance technical solutions on the Salesforce platform
Education and Required Experience:
• Requires Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, and/or a related field plus five years of experience with Salesforce development or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 8+ years project experience in a hands-on technical leadership position
• 5+ years of experience with Salesforce in a development or configuration capacity, 8+ years of experience highly preferred
• One or more current Salesforce certifications (Administrator/Advanced Administrator, Platform Developer 1 or 2, App Builder, Sales/Service Cloud), multiple certifications highly preferred
• Knowledge of Salesforce Best Practices using Apex and Visualforce
• Knowledge of Salesforce Integration Patterns
• Multiple Salesforce Project deployments including release and environment management
• Located and able to work in the U.S. from a home office and able to travel up to 50-70%
• Title and compensation will be based on several reasons including experience
• Not eligible for Visa Sponsorship
Benefits
- Fully remote!
- Clear career progression
- Dental, health insurance
- PTO + sick days!