Salesforce Technical Architect

Slalom Consulting - Boston, MA

Full-time - Senior

Boston, MA

251-500 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Salesforce Technical Architect at Slalom, LLC is responsible for designing and delivering Salesforce solutions for clients. This role involves collaborating with client partners, leading technical design sessions, and ensuring the successful implementation of Salesforce projects. The architect will also support recruiting efforts and contribute to the development of coding standards and best practices within the team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with client partners to define requirements, deliverables, and set expectations
• Translate business requirements into well architected solutions that best utilize the Salesforce platform
• Lead technical design sessions; architect and detail technical solutions aligned with client business objectives
• Identify gaps between client's current and desired end states
• Follow and help define coding standards; lead code reviews during projects
• Lead the technical delivery of configuration and/or custom development, integrations, and data migration elements of a Salesforce implementation
• Provide expert guidance and lead project/workstream estimation efforts
• Present project approach and solutions to clients during project delivery
• Support recruiting, selection, staffing and onboarding of consultants to projects
• Assist in qualifying opportunities and work with people managers and consultants to assess project fit

Requirements

• Hands-on experience architecting technical Salesforce solutions
• Understanding of Salesforce development frameworks and configuration limitations
• Knowledge of object-oriented analysis and design and database design
• Expert level understanding of the Salesforce core product suite, including Sales, Service, and Experience Cloud
• Familiarity with additional clouds and industry specializations (i.e. CPQ/RLM, Marketing Cloud, Public Sector Solutions)
• Understanding of systems architecture and ability to craft scalable solutions
• Understanding of key design patterns and large data volume limitations
• Understanding of platform security capabilities, including data sharing and transparency considerations
• Familiarity with identity & access protocols and frameworks (SAML SSO, OAuth)
• Knowledge of data integration tools and experience integrating Salesforce with different business systems

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