Salesforce Technical Architect

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Ready to solve complex problems Advance your skills Deliver next-generation Salesforce solutions

Now is the perfect time for you to join the Accenture Salesforce team, where you’ll:

– Expand your experience with over 200 intelligent tools across all 12 Salesforce-recognized industries

– Lead in the development and implementation of new Salesforce-based solutions

– Benefit from our long-standing partnership with Salesforce to access the coolest Salesforce technologies, like Lightning, Einstein and Bolt, so you can put them to meaningful applications at scale

– Join more than 11,800 skilled Salesforce professionals, collaborating across multiple areas to drive enterprise-wide transformational projects on a global scale

– Build new skills and strengthen your expertise with unparalleled training and support—whether youre taking the more than 4,200 unique Salesforce certifications or working towards your Certified Technical Architect (CTA) certification

Join Accenture and be empowered with innovative tools, continuous learning and a global community.

Job Description

The successful candidate will be able to design technical architecture solutions that span multiple platforms and include integration and authentication across systems; manage the development lifecycle to ensure the delivery of highly secure solutions that are optimized for performance and built to scale; articulate design considerations, trade-offs, benefits, and recommendations for a technical architecture.  The Technical Architect will have support from the Global Delivery Group as well as from local support resources provided by the global team.  

For now, all Accenture business travel, international and domestic, is currently restricted to client-essential sales/delivery activity only.

When/if travel resumes, travel for this role is expected to be 25% or less.

Please note: The safety and well-being of our people continues to be the top priority, and our decisions around travel are informed by government COVID-19 response directives, recommendations from leading health authorities and guidance from several infectious disease experts. 

Typical Day Snapshot – Technical Architect

– Collaborate with Functional team to determine how best to implement solution (decisions around declarative vs programmatic vs AppExchange, etc)

– Escalation Point for technical issues

– Solution components that are outside of the Salesforce platform

– Expert platform knowledge

– Security

– Integration (including a technology/not just) and data Migration

– End to End Technical Solutions

– Play TA role on projects: typically, part-time on more than 1 project at a time

– People Manager have regular 1-on-1s, perform annual reviews, etc 

– Sales Support: Help scope, solution, and estimate sales opportunities alongside a delivery lead.

Assist in SOW creation, etc

– Practice Development: Mentor resources, take on leadership roles to expand overall practice capabilities, etc

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

– A minimum of 2 years of experience developing Salesforce customizations (Apex/VF), integrations, and developing and executing data migrations

– A minimum of 2 years of experience creating the technical architecture for complex Salesforce implementations

– A minimum of 5 years of experience in technology implementation for full lifecycle enterprise software projects

Education Requirement

– Bachelors degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.

If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience

Preferred Skills

– Strong background in Cloud Computing solutions – cloud computing strategy, systems design, implementation and management

– Consulting experience with medium to large consulting firms focusing on cloud computing related consulting (storage, SaaS, multi-tenant computing, large scale computing environments, etc)

– Demonstrated knowledge of XML, SQL, and EAI processes

– Familiarity with multiple implementation standards and methodologies

– Programming Languages – APEX, VisualForce, Familiarity with ANT and Eclipse tools for working with the IDE

– Salesforce.com and other certifications, required

– Very strong work ethic with a customer service focus (high intensity)

– 15+ years of consulting experience preferred; executive level sales support experience in consulting/professional services.

As required by Colorado law under the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, Accenture provides a reasonable range of minimum compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado.

Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location.

For the state of Colorado only, the range of starting pay for this role is 132,700 – 263,400

What We Believe

We have an unwavering commitment to diversity with the aim that every one of our people has a full sense of belonging within our organization.

As a business imperative, every person at Accenture has the responsibility to create and sustain an inclusive environment.

Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values.

Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion or sexual orientation.

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.

Requesting An Accommodation

Accenture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed.

If you are hired by Accenture and require accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our reasonable accommodation process.

Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired.

Other Employment Statements

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.

The Company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

Additionally, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Companys legal duty to furnish information.

COVID-19 update: 

The safety and well-being of our candidates, our people and their families continues to be a top priority.

Until travel restrictions change, interviews will continue to be conducted virtually. 

Please be aware that Accenture requires all employees to be fully vaccinated as a condition of employment.

Accenture will consider requests for medical or religious accommodation to this vaccination requirement during the recruiting process.