Salesforce Solution Architect

As a SFDC Solution Architect, you will be part of a successful and fast growing network of technology delivery experts which presents both great professional growth opportunities as well as space for excelling in your personal area of expertise.  You will be responsible for designing and delivering world-class platforms for our customers, producing enterprise standard solutions and for leading delivery teams to build and deliver successfully on Salesforce/Force.com.  Leveraging cloud and on premise technologies as appropriate; this role will deliver advanced custom solutions on Force.com heavily integrated with other systems.

As a suitable candidate you should be a certified subject matter expert in Salesforce.com, and specialise in advanced solution engineering, providing technical leadership to delivery team and mentoring and also for providing the strong technical insight of our clients that a strong relationship needs. You will be able to fully utilise OOB features of Salesforce.com, designing solutions using the Salesforce.com API, APEX, visualforce and other tools to extend the product to meet client needs.

For this role, you need to demonstrate that you are able to communicate clearly and confidently, leading both technical briefings, business development presentations and business requirement gathering sessions. You should be able to produce designs that are clear and concise, author technical artefacts and bring quality assurance to deliveries.

You should be highly experienced in using Agile (SCRUM) delivery approach and understand the importance of SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle Principles) and SFDC development best practice principles.

Responsibilities:

• Mapping out technical architecture for large scale implementations
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise in Cloud and on premise architecture
• Provide insight and experience of SFDC solutions across various industries
• Liaise closely with the functional and technical teams
• Lead requirement gathering sessions
• Manage code reviews and provide quality assurance
• Provide leadership in code release/deployment best practices
• Lead technical design sessions
• Author technical design documents
• Managing the delivery of integration and custom extensions
• Managing technical scope and client expectation
• Ensuring team quality is assured through rigor of process
• Lead Solution Engineering and technical meetings with the customer
• Participate in authoring and review of technical solutions
• Participate in design, documentation and delivery efforts in concert with other team members
• Participate in internal projects and initiatives
• Participate in business development work as required
• Authoring and review of project artefacts before release
• Leverage business knowledge and cloud expertise to drive business process improvements

Must Have:

• ADM201 (Admin) certification
• DEV401 (Developer) certification
• Sales Cloud / Service Cloud Certification
• Deep real-world Force.com integration deliveries of enterprise software systems using industry standard environments such as XML, HTTP/HTTPS, Java, C++, and ASP
• SOA and batch integration experience
• Proven solution engineering and real-world delivery experience
• Clear & confident technical communication skills
• Team leading and colleague mentoring skills

Desirable:

• ADM211 (Adv. Admin) Certification
• DEV501 (Adv. Developer) certification
• TA certification
• Middleware ESB
• Agile / SCRUM certified