Description
Summary:- This senior technology position is responsible for defining the functional, technical roadmap for the Force.com platform.
Responsibilities:
- Drive platform roadmap and adoption of product releases by engaging with business and IT leaders within in the organization and with SalesForce and vendor product teams
- Provide consultative support, define technical solutions and evangelize functional and technical capabilities of the platform.
- Identify potential risks and impact on operations associated with new solutions
- Facilitate and review the definition and implementation of standards, methodologies, and best practices that guide the design of technology solutions.
- Develop and maintain best practices and standards supporting the platform and drive adoption.
- Facilitate and Develop Innovative POCs/POTs (proof of concept/proof of technology) exercises to demonstrate feasibility in order to refine and also showcase new capabilities of the platform.
- Act as expert point of escalation for issues related to the platform
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and 15+ years of experience in IT architecture working for or consulting to large, F500 companies.
- Healthcare and Pharmaceutical R&D experience preferred.
- MBA or Masters in Information Technology desired
- 10+ years of experience in increasing levels of responsibility developing solutions and applications with at least 5+ years on Force.com
- 5+ years of implementation experience, including development, across the full software development life cycle
- 3+ year of experience in an Architect Role
- Experience with sales cloud, service cloud, chatter, communities etc.
- Possess detailed knowledge and awareness of emerging trends and technologies within the Force.com Platform
- Outstanding leadership and motivational skills to ensure that technology solutions continuously meet the evolving needs of the business.
- Certified on one or more of the following: Force.com - Architect, Developer, Admin
- Custom development experience in Force.com (Apex, visualforce, data loader, Heroku, AWS), integration with other enterprise applications and SalesForce.com ecosystem applications
- Experience with multiple, complex and at least one large Force.com implementation project involving multiple releases, change management process and/or multi location deployment
- Understanding of best practices and design trade-offs, with the ability to communicate design choices
- Awareness of mobile solutions and considerations
- Awareness of common third-party solution providers for Force.com
- Knowledge of Internet and cloud architecture paradigms
- Experience in designing/developing Web Services/Rest API to interface with other systems
- Experience with Enterprise Integration and ETL tools
- Experience with JavaScript, Triggers, .net, Java, HTML5, CSS and Batch Apex
- Understanding of data, network and single sign on technologies
- Evangelist, committed to ensuring complex ideas are explained and reach the audience in a simple and easily understood format.
- Experience in providing guidance on technology solutions both verbally and through the preparation of written materials in order to build relationships, influence and negotiate.
- Motivated by the long term.
- Results driven, ensuring short-term goals are achieved that support long-term initiatives with an appropriate sense of urgency.