Description:

• Drive business and IT alignment to leverage reusable architecture capabilities
• Collaborate with IT management to define and develop technology strategy, technology standards, roadmaps, and practices
• Act as a technical expert addressing problems relating to systems integration, compatibility, and multiple platform integration
• Interact and consult with appropriate business analysts, project managers and developers to understand application/project requirements and define architectural solutions to meet those requirements
• Work with the application solutions delivery teams in the development of services, components, standards, and frameworks required to support  business strategy (e.g. design patterns, reusable components)
• Ensure that projects follow the prescribed development life cycle and meets quality standards
• Assist with analyzing and recommending software acquisitions and alternative solutions/methodologies/strategies and tools
• Identify risks associated with component or application implementation

Academic/Experience/Competency

BA/BS in Information Technology, Computer Science, MIS or related field or equivalent work experience.

• Demonstrates a deep technical aptitude of multitier and crossplatform architectures across the enterprise
• Indepth knowledge of design requirements
• Advanced ability to define systems and integration models
• Advanced ability to act as a technical expert addressing problems relating to systems integration, compatibility, and multiple platform integration
• Advanced understanding in the information technology landscape stretching from infrastructure, network, client, server, emerging technology standards and trends
• Advanced understanding and working knowledge of software engineering, software development, solution architecture and implementation of medium to large scale systems across multiple platforms

Business Experience

• 10 plus years experience designing or configuring systems and/or applications
• 6 years Relational Database Design and Maintenance

Daily Tasks Performed

The Solution Architect will serve as a technical bridge between business and technical stakeholders to develop a solution and architectural approach that supports business initiatives. The Solution Architect will translate complex functional, technical, and business requirements into architectural designs in the Salesforce Ecosystem

Design fault-tolerant, scalable and decoupled software solutions.

Lead technology decision making with a strong emphasis on the reasoning behind those decisions.

Ability to perform GAP analysis on the Business requirements and design custom solutions / workarounds for the identified GAPs.

Identify areas of improvement between the existing systems.

The Solution Architect will work closely with other Technical Architects, Developers, Product, Program and Operations team members and provide input on design and technical direction.

Drives technical designs to consensus and approval. Designs solutions for specific use cases that provide frameworks, interfaces and services that can be extended and reused for future requirements.

Continually strives to deliver operational excellence by leveraging deep understanding of end to end use cases to assist partner teams with test automation, creation of synthetic tests and production support.

Assist in the continual evolution of the Consumer Solutions group's processes and metrics to make the team more efficient, and increase value added to partner teams.

Build standards and best practices for cross-cutting software development concerns.

Teach and mentor engineers to expand their knowledge of software development and standards.

Wants

BS/MS degree in Computer Science or other technical field, or equivalent.

Understand the enterprise systems environment around Salesforce: 4+ years of architecture, data model, and platform integration driving solution architecture around multi-tier applications, SaaS, PaaS. Proficiency and experience with the most common Salesforce integration patterns: batch data synchronization, event bus integration, remote process invocation, remote call-in, data virtualization and custom Lightning Web Components. Must have experience working with integration features such as callouts, future methods, batch and scheduled apex, Platform Events, REST and SOAP APIs 12+ years experience in requirements analysis, design, development, unit testing and operation of distributed, fault-tolerant applications with particular attention to security, scalability and high performance. Proven experience in large enterprise systems design interfacing with multiple applications, and implementing pragmatic designs

Excellent communication and relationship skills, especially the ability to articulate advanced technical topics to both technical and non-technical staff; ability to articulate business issues/concerns with staff, peers, superiors, and partners.

Ability to multi-task and prioritize work according to needs.

Ability to quickly learn new concepts and technologies through self-study.

Experience integrating SaaS solutions.