Description
My client a global media organisation based in West London are looking for a Salesforce Architect to provide the discipline of technical architecture for the Salesforce platform, including the delivery of technical designs and working with integration and technical teams to implement functionality to cost, quality and schedule.
Ideal candidate profile:
- 5 years' experience in a Technical Architect role and 10 years' experience in a development role. Experience of working with development teams in both on and offshore environments.
- 5+ years' experience of Salesforce.com including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, General configuration)
- Strong hands-on experience with APEX and Visualforce
- Experience of Salesforce managed packages
- At least 3 full life cycle implementations on the Salesforce platform
- Experience of integrating Salesforce with Marketing Automation platforms, ideally Eloqua
- Excellent interpersonal, communication (both written and oral) and presentation skills to explain complex terminology and initiatives in straightforward terms to various audiences.
Key responsibilities:
- Delivering various technical designs and related artefacts to development teams, including application designs, data models and solution models, to facilitate the development of an appropriate system to meet captured business requirements.
- Designing, applying and enforcing architecture principles, standards, patterns and practices for technical design and development teams, and ensuring that these principles support the needs of other IT work-streams.
- Providing expert knowledge in systems integration to ensure disparate systems function as a whole, as well as designing SOA-based systems and architecting building blocks, which can be used (and re-used) to construct an end-to-end solution.
- Leading impact analysis and leveraging his/her own expert knowledge of system behaviour to determine the effect of a business requirement, or technical change, on current systems and processes.
- Leading the design of appropriate architecture views and view points, including UML diagrams (eg sequence, use case, class, activity and state diagrams), to help convey architectural or technical information to different audiences.