Robert W Baird & Company - Milwaukee, WI

posted 3 months ago

Full-time - Senior
Milwaukee, WI
1,001-5,000 employees
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

The Salesforce Architect position at Robert W. Baird is a unique opportunity to create a vision and strategy for platform architecture, and to define best practices for Baird's platform and integration strategy. This role will include a heavy leadership component, which encompasses mentoring and coaching team members, having a broad impact on multiple teams, and influencing at the enterprise level. The position is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days a week onsite, with associates from Chicago or Madison expected to travel to the Milwaukee office once a week. As a Salesforce Architect, you will be responsible for strategizing, designing, and collaborating with various teams to ensure the successful implementation of Salesforce solutions. You will influence and drive the direction of platform development architecture, assist in advising the IT vision and strategy, and help develop policies and standards that empower teams to implement quality solutions. Your role will also involve delivering highly technical concepts, designing technology-based solutions, and ensuring that project deliverables meet the overall architecture direction. In addition to technical responsibilities, you will be expected to mentor and develop other Salesforce professionals, communicate effectively with senior IT leadership and cross-functional teams, and demonstrate strong decision-making skills in architecture and design. You will also seek out and apply new technologies and skills, develop relationships with the business, and continuously improve processes within the organization. This position is critical to Baird's business strategy, emphasizing collaboration, diversity, and a strong sense of partnership.

Responsibilities

  • Influence and drive the direction of platform development architecture, versions, and toolsets.
  • Assist in advising the IT vision, strategy, technology innovations, licensing, and architecture services.
  • Develop policies, standards, best practices, and guidelines, and communicate to teams.
  • Help deliver highly technical concepts by researching and building POCs to assess viability within the Salesforce environment.
  • Design, prototype, document and implement the strategic roadmap ensuring its feasibility.
  • Conceptualize and design technology-based solutions within the business unit application domain.
  • Drive Salesforce Well-Architected tenants within the organization and aligned teams.
  • Help platform teams develop solutions that enable businesses to capitalize on business insights.
  • Strive to understand the platform needs of the business community and the problems faced by business users.
  • Work with teams on high level project direction and creation of technical requirements.
  • Translate business requirements and product vision into platform architecture.
  • Communicate requirements, architecture, and test plans to platform team members.
  • Ensure project deliverables meet overall architecture direction, including providing and owning trade-off choices.
  • Review system design to assure that applications will exhibit expected levels of performance, scalability, security, and appropriate reusability upon release.
  • Articulate pros and cons of architectural design options and provide clear recommendations on preferred-path solution design.
  • Perform system and risk analysis of project features and solutions.
  • Provide production problem diagnosis and technical support.
  • Use the mentoring and pairing model to build knowledge and skills to help create solid platform solutions.
  • Proactively work with other members of the platform team to complete high-value deliverables.
  • Partner with architecture and technical teams to provide direction during POC of solutions.
  • Act as the platform technical subject matter expert.
  • Consult with project technical leaders on trade-off decisions as required.
  • Lead architectural design and strategy discussions.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated expertise in object-oriented analysis and design.
  • Experience with iterative development methodologies (Agile/SCRUM/TDD).
  • Strong communication skills to mentor and develop other Salesforce professionals.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with technical teams and senior IT leadership.
  • Effective decision-making skills on architecture and design, utilizing strong requirements analysis skills.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with cloud and mobile strategies.
  • Familiarity with complex application integration.
  • Participation in organizations and user groups related to Salesforce.

Benefits

  • 401K Plan
  • Health Insurance
  • Vacation & Paid Time Off
  • Profit sharing
  • Flexible work environment
  • Professional development opportunities
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