We are looking for a seasoned Salesforce architect who is passionate and experienced at building ISV or OEM products on the Salesforce platform. An ideal candidate will be a trusted advisor with deep technical expertise in Salesforce Architecture and a leader with vision who will provide overall technical direction, guidance and definition of Salesforce architecture to deliver products that effectively support our business strategy. The candidate should have exceptional communication skills, the ability to work remotely as part of a team, and experience guiding software and quality engineer’s analysts in implementing production quality solutions.

This is a position for a hardworking and creative software architect offering tremendous ability to make an impact. Ability to work from home as part of a distributed team. East Coast time zone preferred.

Essential Responsibilities

Strongly serving and supporting the Product Owner and Development team in their quest to do everything possible to delight customers and ship a release.

Providing support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example. This person should personify Agile and Scrum more philosophically, than just a process

Guiding and coaching the development team in design and architecture of the product

Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem solving

Coaching to assist other team members in growing their careers

Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information

Staying hands on to comprehend the what, the why, the where, the when and on a high level of the release being shipped

Required Skills/Experience

10+ years of software development experience

Salesforce development experience with a strong focus on Apex and Visualforce development

Experience with Lightning and Aura, Lightning Web Components development is a plus

Experience in managing a development team and delivering products or projects

Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency

Experience with Agile development practices

Experience working with modern Web technologies (JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, AJAX)

Preferred Skills/Experience (Any of these are a plus)

B.S. degree in computer science

Experience with the Salesforce ISV or OEM model, including development of managed packages

Experience being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)

Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Automated Testing, Story timing

Excellent communication and mentoring skills

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