The Salesforce Solutions Architect is responsible for supporting client's wide initiatives with an emphasis on infrastructure architecture, security, and application architecture. Play a critical role in designing and overseeing the implementation of integrated technology solutions that support the organization's long-term goals and will be deeply involved in daily work across all business units, regularly interacting with both stakeholders and subject matter experts with a primary focus on the Local Public Health (LPH) project.
Role:
Design Salesforce architecture solutions spanning business processes, hardware, operating systems, applications, networking environments, and platforms.
Develop Salesforce technical frameworks and components that address common needs and can potentially be leveraged enterprise wide.
Lead and collaborate with a solution integrator to design, develop, and implement a Salesforce solution, using Salesforce components, including Public Sector Solutions, experience Cloud, Service Cloud, ensuring they align with client requirement and Salesforce best practices.
Responsible for providing Salesforce technical architecture leadership.
Work closely with the Enterprise Applications Support team to architect Salesforce solutions across the current Salesforce implementation, legacy platforms, and net new development.
Review of all current implementations to identify gaps, risks and recommend improvements and optimization areas includes custom code and integrations.
Integrate Salesforce with external systems using APIs, middleware, and ETL tools.
Collaborate with enterprise architects and middleware engineers to define scalable, extensible, cost-effective, and standards-based solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
Define and document Salesforce functional and nonfunctional details, technical architecture, and design specifications for end-to-end infrastructure with a focus on architectural standards, growth, performance, flexibility, reliability, scalability, and security.
Build out a cost-effective infrastructure architecture based on the Salesforce platform.
Present facts and recommendations effectively in both oral and written form.
Consult with business leadership to develop and maintain an architecture design in alignment with business strategy and objectives.
Consult with infrastructure teams, applications teams, data architects, security architects, and strategic partners to create an architecture accommodating the business strategy.
Conduct vendor code reviews, enforce coding standards, and mentor junior developers to maintain high- quality code.
Review and lead technical design and provide architecture insight/recommendations on proposed feature additions.
Review technical team deliverables for compliance with architecture standards, guidelines and leverages best practices.
Articulate and present point of views on Salesforce product releases, roadmap features and their fit to LPH implementations.
Guide developers on client's in Salesforce best practices and principles.
Provide reviews of technical deliverables and identify gaps/areas for improvement.
Map proposed functional requirements to Salesforce features and functionality.
Provide governance and best practices/standards supporting the platform adoption and full application lifecycle (design, development, change control, UAT, deployment and support).
Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
Participate in technical audits, design reviews, and recommend improvements.
Review current SDLC process and identify gaps, risks and recommend improvements and optimization areas.
Qualifications:
5 - 10+ years Salesforce architecture experience.
Experience with Agile methodologies.
ETL experience.
Git version control.
CI/CD pipelines.
Knowledge of the Salesforce SOAP API, REST API, and BULK API.
Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to mentor team members.