Salesforce Technical Architect

Job Title: SALESFORCE TECHNICAL ARCHITECT
Location: Lisle, IL
Duration: 12+ Months
Visa: USC, GC, H1B and EAD
Contract Type: W2

Job Description:

Salesforce Technical Architect will serve as the technical lead on Salesforce projects delivering enterprise cloud technology solutions.

Responsibilities:

1. Lead the Salesforce Development Team in the design and development of Salesforce custom solutions comprising of work in Apex, Visual Force, Salesforce APIs, Lightning, and data migration.
2. Oversee the development work of junior developers and ensure the use of best practices in all development efforts.
3. Communicate with project managers, clients and other developers to design cohesive project strategies and ensure effective collaboration throughout all phases of development, testing and deployment.
4. Maintain a flexible and proactive work environment to facilitate a quick response to changing project requirements and customer objectives, and innovate ways to meet mission goals successfully.
5. Interact directly with clients, managers and end users as necessary to analyze project objectives and capability requirements, including specifications for user interfaces, customized applications and interactions with internal Salesforce instances.
6. Assist the Support Team with escalated issues arising from support of internal and customer-facing Salesforce environment, especially related to customized applications, user permissions, security settings, custom objects and workflows
7. Facilitate solution design sessions and code reviews, advocate Salesforce best practices, recommend alternate approaches and create architectural designs.
8. Provide estimates of work effort for new projects and enhancements. Design, code, and test solutions. Analyze and mitigate issues identified during testing.
9. Follow an iterative software development methodology and contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle and support.
10. Facilitate and actively participate in meetings with representatives from business and/or IT units.
11. Take accountability for quality of deliverables, provide status on development effort, and deliver on time and as per specifications.

Technical Skills

1. In-depth knowledge of Salesforce products and services, including Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Partner Communities, B2B Commerce and Service Cloud
2. Expertise in various technical areas such as data modeling, integration, security and customization
3. Proficient with Apex, VisualForce, Lightning, Java, and JavaScript
4. Proficient with Object Oriented Programming methodology and Salesforce best practices
5. Previous experience with Azure DevOps, DX, Tricentis Tosca, Oracle SOA a plus

Qualifications

1. Self-motivated and creative
2. Highly detail oriented, accurate, and organized
3. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
4. Proven ability to handle complexity
5. Proven ability to succeed in a cross-functional environment working with business users, project team members and IT development personnel
6. Excellent written and oral communication skills
7. Experience in an Agile development environment
8. Strong customer service orientation; enjoys people and creates raving fans
9. Preference given to candidates located within commuting distance of Lisle, IL and willing to work in a hybrid environment

Education requirement:

1. MS in Computer Science and 6 years as a Salesforce architect, OR
2. BS in Computer Science and 8 years as a Salesforce architect
3. Required/Preferred Certifications: Salesforce Technical Architect certification or similar credential preferred