Salesforce Architect (REMOTE)

Salesforce Architect (REMOTE)
We are looking for a Salesforce Architect to lead the Architecture and Design strategies for our business line. Team is currently focused on multiple facets of evolving the Salesforce landscape: Building scalable architecture to support continuous sales & service initiatives across Salesforce core clouds.
Technical & deployment strategies that reduce incidents, errors, and facilitate the ability for more frequent delivery.
Create testing practices and strategy to gain efficiencies.
Simplify the back-end, core system architecture and rationalize, where applicable, redesigned architecture.

Salesforce Architect Key Responsibilities:
Analyzes the state of the current implementation and provides technical recommendations to improve service to stakeholders.
Leads the development of architectural roadmap for Salesforce.
Partners with the Salesforce Technical Owner, Business Process Owner, Offshore Lead and other architects to ensure teams are designing and delivering solutions in line with IT’s architectural vision.
Defines Integration framework guidelines that drive the data exchange between applications.
Develops non-functional high-level requirements and architectural documentation for major initiatives.
Creates and reviews the designs for back end (such as objects, apex classes, triggers), front end (such as lightning web components, visual force pages) and integrations; Promotes adherence of designs to policies and standards, architectural principles and guidelines.
Explores and recommends Out-Of-The-Box features before suggesting custom development.
Leads the technical team during critical system failures or major incidents to restore business continuity as fast as possible.
Analyses AppExchange and other products to recommend solutions that meet business needs; conducts prototyping and creates Proof of Concept to support recommendations based on facts;
Mentors Salesforce developers to create internal development standards and instill best practices to ensure they build secure and scalable solutions.
Assists with the development of engineering practices, coding standards, testing strategies, KPIs, and CI/CD pipelines which meet internal business needs and minimize defects prior to implementation.

Salesforce Architect Required Qualifications and Skills: Prior experience as Salesforce Architect.
At least 10 years overall software development experience, at least 5 years of experience in Salesforce development.
Ability to work collaboratively with offshore development teams.
Expertise in Salesforce declarative development in Sales & Service Cloud, both classic & lighting. Community Cloud experience is a plus.
Extensive experience in Salesforce development (including Apex, Aura / LWC and declarative programming tools), optimizing complex orgs, including improving of performance, getting rid of governor limits errors and reducing exceptions in a production environment;
Experience Building Salesforce integrations using Web Service (SOAP & REST API), Apex Programming, and Mulesoft (or similar technologies)
Ability to effectively Influence, negotiate and lead technology alternative evaluations and implementations within both Business and IT.
Experience with Salesforce deployments tools (GIT, Gearset/Copado/ClickDeploy/ANT Scripts) strongly preferred.
Ability to comfortably and credibly present to senior management. Be able to articulate the value proposition of getting solutions built using sound architecture principles.

Desired Qualifications: Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
Required Salesforce Certifications: Certified Admin, Platform Developer, App Builder.
Preferred Salesforce Certifications: Sharing and Visibility designer, Data Architecture and Management Designer, Integration Architecture Designer & Development Lifecycle & Deployment Designer.
Financial Services, payments processing and related technologies experience is a plus

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