Salesforce Architect / Release Specialist

Kforce - Fairfax, VA

Full-time

Fairfax, VA

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Salesforce Architect/Release Specialist will play a pivotal role in leading the Architectural Review Board, focusing on the critical analysis of technical architecture designs and overall solution strategy for Salesforce applications. This position involves pre-sales activities, onboarding project teams, defining technical guidelines, executing change and release management, and providing guidance on master data management. The role also includes managing source code and repositories, recommending integration strategies, performing code reviews, and mentoring junior resources.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Architectural Review Board with responsibility for critical analysis of technical architecture designs, code & configuration, sharing models, integrations, and overall solution strategy.
• Assist the client in a pre-sales capacity by meeting with prospective end-user customers, conducting discovery, mapping functional requirements to Salesforce platform capabilities, identifying gaps requiring third party systems or utilities, and preparing & presenting solution recommendations.
• Assist with onboarding new CoE customer project teams onto the platform to begin development initiatives.
• Work with Client's enterprise architecture team to define technical development guidelines and security guidelines for Salesforce based applications.
• Execute Change and Release Management for the Salesforce applications using DevOps and CI/CD processes.
• Provide guidance on master data management associated with Salesforce, including data capture, indexing, warehousing, storing, cleansing and security.
• Manage source code and associated repositories for Salesforce applications.
• Recommend Salesforce.com integration strategies with different business systems, including working use of leading integration tools.
• Perform code reviews and ensure team deliverables are vetted against best practices.
• Provide strong leadership and mentoring of junior resources.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development and system design experience.
• 3+ years of experience as a Salesforce technical architect supporting Salesforce application design and implementation, including Experience Cloud.
• 3+ years of practical deployment knowledge of Flows, Lightning components, VisualForce, Salesforce configurations, Apex classes, APEX Web services, API, sharing models, Reports and Dashboard and AppExchange utilities.
• 2+ years of experience with OmniStudio and Salesforce Public Sector Solutions.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical/dental/vision insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• 401(k) plan
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Accidental Death and Dismemberment (ADD) insurance
• Paid time off for salaried personnel
• Paid sick leave for hourly employees on Service Contract Act projects