Salesforce Technical Architect

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.

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:

• 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
• Salesforce CTA (Certified Technical Architect), Solution Architect, and Application Architect credentials are highly valuable.

Job Type: Contract

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Salesforce Security Best Practices: 7 years (Preferred)
• Custom Development (e.g., Flows, Apex, APIs): 8 years (Preferred)
• Integration with ERP, CRM, and Data Warehouses: 8 years (Preferred)
• Salesforce Architecture & Multi-Cloud Expertise: 10 years (Preferred)
• Salesforce Data Model (Service Cloud, Manufacturing Cloud): 8 years (Preferred)
• Apex Programming, Lightning Web Components (LWC): 8 years (Preferred)
• Salesforce API Integrations: 8 years (Preferred)
• Middleware tools (e.g., MuleSoft): 8 years (Preferred)
• Salesforce CI/CD and Release Management: 9 years (Preferred)
• Identity and Access Management (SSO, OAuth): 9 years (Preferred)
• Data Architecture & Data Modeling: 7 years (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) (Preferred)
• Salesforce Solution Architect (Preferred)
• Salesforce Application Architect (Preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Peoria, IL 61629