Salesforce Architect

Job Summary : Connected is a multi-year strategic program to digitally transform Sales, Recruiting, and Marketing capabilities for Allegis Group and its operating companies.  The Domain Architect (DA) – Salesforce role is a core member of the Connected team responsible for designing innovative solutions on the Salesforce platform, developing project and platform standards, guiding development teams throughout execution, and delivering high-quality solutions.

You must possess a unique combination of business acumen and analytical focus with a strong, deep technical background in Salesforce technologies. The DA is responsible for :

• Providing big-picture thinking and in-depth problem-solving expertise to guide analysis, architecture, & design of solutions on the Salesforce platform
• Assessing business requirements; creating, evolving, & approving technical designs; creating technical and solution design diagrams and documentation; partnering with Architecture, Product, and UX team members to design experiments and potential solutions
• Estimating initial effort and technical feasibility given very broad and / or limited statements to enable business prioritization and planning
• Presenting solution designs to broader Architecture teams and the Architecture Review Board for feedback and approval prior to implementation
• Creating durable, scalable technology solutions, guiding execution from design to production.
• Ensuring quality and integrity of a solution, including viability in the Production environment.
• Managing technology lifecycles and applications within the Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) system The DA must be able to communicate effectively by :
• Speaking the language of business – understanding business problems and translating needs into viable technical solutions with measurable outcomes.
• Speaking the language of architecture – capabilities, frameworks, APIs, patterns, maturity models, roadmaps, physical, logical, functional diagrams, use cases, etc.
• Speaking the language of technology - new technologies and trends, data, modeling, POCs, non-functional requirements, SLAs, comparing / constrasting products in a given technology space, etc. The DA will :
• Guide a solution from concept to delivery - envision and create solutions; model the solution components and integration points; prove feasibility of a design; and ultimately implement and support a solution in the Production environment.
• Provide hands-on, expert-level technical assistance to developers
• Adhere to team and Enterprise Architecture (EA) standards, and assist in defining new standards, methodologies, and frameworks
• Ensure that new technology solutions are designed for optimal access and usefulness, rationalizing technical debt and leveraging existing technologies whenever possible.
• Create near / mid-term roadmaps – evaluating technologies to address gaps, reduce technical debt, and evolve their domain toward the future state architecture, to support business growth and innovation. Responsibilities Essential Functions :
• Establish new domain specific standards, near / mid-term strategy, and roadmaps (0-18 months), in compliance with Enterprise standards, strategy, and roadmaps.
• Define future state technologies and architecture and help evolve Enterprise standards and mid / long-term strategy / roadmaps (18-60 months), providing domain specific expertise.
• Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design a solution meeting operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability, and manageability.
• Translate business strategy and requirements into well-architected solutions that best leverage the Salesforce.com platform, using standard or declarative capabilities when feasible
• Participate and lead research and development efforts (proof of concept, prototypes), as subject matter experts, when introducing new technologies, in conjunction with UX and Product Management teams
• Provide technical expertise to estimate effort, complexity, work breakdown structures, and technical resource planning to support Agile Product and Demand Management processes.
• Ability to gain buy-in on proposed solutions.
• Lead and define solution architecture to deliver high-impact products in a fast-paced environment
• Assist managers in developing the service level agreements (SLAs) and deploying key performance measures.
• Participate throughout the SDLC to perform architectural review functions, and to ensure adherence to Enterprise Architecture (EA) technology standards and project specific solutions architecture (i.e., design and code reviews).
• Keep current with Salesforce and domain-related technologies and best practices
• Serve as technical owner and point of contact for domain specific solutions.
• Coach and mentor team members in the areas of technical skills and competency. Qualifications Minimum Education and / or Experience
• B.S.

in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related major or equivalent IS / business experience.

SOA, Master Data Management, Mobile). Skills / Abiliies :

Salary : $119,000 - $174,800