What are the responsibilities and job description for the Salesforce Architect/Lead position at Vectorsoft?
Location- Hybrid work schedule (3x days in office) / Peoria IL
Position’s Contributions to Work Group :
This role requires strong expertise in Salesforce to provide innovative solutions that will match business partners goals and will also require excellent analytical skills.
Daily work will include gathering and documenting business requirements, being SPOC of our business partners, helping on testing, training, and documentation. She / he will be part of a large team working on simultaneous projects (including Executive Office initiative).
As Salesforce Senior IT Analyst, you will interface with product owners, IT architects, stakeholders, senior leadership, technical or non-technical teams, and Program Managers to design and support innovative Salesforce solutions for some of our modernization projects to meet the future needs of our business partners.
Typical task breakdown :
Develop Scalable Solutions : Design end-to-end Salesforce solutions that are scalable, flexible, and secure.
Integrate Salesforce with other systems like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, and third-party tools.
Prepare solution design documentation and rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimates on time and cost for projects and enhancements.
Develop strategies for integrating Salesforce with other enterprise systems like ERP, CRM, or data warehouses.
Define data architecture, including objects, relationships, and data flows across systems.
Guide developers and technical teams on Salesforce best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns.
Conduct regular code reviews to ensure high performance, security, and maintainability.
Define and enforce governance frameworks for Salesforce usage, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
Improve business processes by leveraging Salesforce automation tools like Flows and Apex
Ensure that solutions comply with Salesforce security best practices, such as role hierarchies, sharing settings, and field-level security.
Implement Single Sign-On (SSO), OAuth, and identity solutions for authentication and user access control.
Oversee and participate in custom development using Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components, and APIs.
Oversee Salesforce release cycles, sandbox strategies, and deployment practices using CI / CD tools.
Communicate effectively with Business Partners teams to understand their requirements and / or to improve current solutions.
Conduct technical analysis of new requests from internal customers to gather requirements, analyze, and convert into technical requirements that will be communicated to Development team.
Develop prototypes and proof-of-concept solutions to validate new ideas and architectures
Perform Salesforce deployment testing and help our business partners to perform UAT.
Evaluate new releases of Salesforce to determine functionality requirements and provide detailed information on how changes will apply to all affected Salesforce solutions.
Optimize system performance, data loads, and platform scalability.
Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, lead technical discussions, and influence decision-making.
Adapt to diverse business climates.
Participate on 2-3 projects concurrently.
Interaction with team :
Team consists of 4 in Peoria they will be working with. 65 developers and 10 others in various roles.
Work environment :
Hybrid work model
Education & Experience Required :
Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
4 years of experience in SFDC Architecture and experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components, Salesforce API integrations, and middleware tools like MuleSoft
Technical Skills
Required)
Strong knowledge of the SFDC Data Model across various clouds / products, proficient in multi-cloud architecture, and significant data modeling experience.
Experience in architecting solutions on Service Cloud, Manufacturing Cloud
Proven track record of successful large enterprise Salesforce project deliveries.
Adherence to Salesforce best practices.
Good effective communications skills being able to explain conclusions to our business partners.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Knowledge of agile methodologies and the agile development lifecycle; ability to utilize formal agile methodologies, disciplines, practices and techniques for the delivery of new and enhanced applications
Desired)
Salesforce CTA (Certified Technical Architect), Solution Architect, and Application Architect credentials are highly valuable.
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