Salesforce Technical Architect - Global Salesforce

$110,000 - $203,000/Yr

Slalom Consulting - Atlanta, GA

Full-time - Senior

Atlanta, GA

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As a Salesforce Technical Architect at Slalom, you will be responsible for setting the overall direction of technical solutions for Salesforce implementations. This role requires a deep understanding of the Salesforce platform and involves designing and delivering complex projects from discovery to deployment. You will collaborate with client stakeholders, manage expectations, and ensure the technical delivery of custom development, integrations, and data migration elements. Your expertise will guide the team in creating scalable, performance-driven solutions that align with client business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with client stakeholders to define requirements, deliverables, and set and manage expectations.
• Shape solutions that deliver business outcomes and provide designs for engineers on how to deliver programmatic elements of the implementation.
• Translate business requirements into well architected solutions that best leverage the Salesforce platform and features.
• Lead technical design sessions; architect and document technical solutions aligned with client business objectives; identify gaps between client's current and desired end states.
• Provide oversight and governance of Salesforce projects.
• Follow and define coding standards; lead code reviews during projects to ensure quality and appropriate design patterns are followed.
• Manage the technical delivery of custom development, integrations, and data migration elements of a Salesforce implementation.
• Manage client expectations and collaborate on viable solutions to complex problems.
• Provide expertise during sales efforts to determine design, feasibility and estimations.
• Coach and mentor junior technical and functional team members.
• Interview candidates.

Requirements

• 8+ years CRM experience, the majority specifically with Salesforce.
• Expertise in one or multiple Salesforce Clouds including Sales, Service, Experience, Marketing, Data, Financial, etc.
• Understand core technical principles of Salesforce for integration, networking, infrastructure, security, data modeling and DevOps.
• Strong knowledge and experience of Salesforce development and configuration.
• Understanding of systems architecture and ability to design scalable performance-driven solutions.
• Understanding of key design patterns, data modeling, and large data volume limitations and best practices.
• Understanding of data sharing and visibility considerations and how these play into platform architecture.
• Familiarity with platform authentication patterns (SAML, SSO, OAuth).
• Knowledge of data integration tools and experience integrating Salesforce with different business systems (ETL, ESB, CPQ, marketing automation, reporting, etc.).
• Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies.
• Experience with platform security capabilities (Named Credentials, TLS, SSL).
• Expert level experience defining the system architecture landscape, identifying gaps between current and desired end-states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will enable achievement of the desired business outcomes.
• Advanced knowledge of Apex, Trigger and Lightning Flow Design Patterns and development experience.
• Extensive LWC, JavaScript, Web components, HTML design and development experience.
• Exposure and experience in Einstein and AI product capabilities.
• Strong background in design/development of large web-based or client server systems, or complete software product lifecycle exposure.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented analysis and design and database design.
• Up-to-date knowledge and training on latest Salesforce release, features and developments.
• Active Salesforce certifications or ability to achieve relevant certifications upon hire.

Benefits

• Meaningful time off and paid holidays
• Parental leave
• 401(k) with a match
• Highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage
• Adoption and fertility assistance
• Short/long-term disability
• Yearly $350 reimbursement account for well-being-related expenses
• Discounted home, auto, and pet insurance