Architect, Salesforce (Sales & Service Clouds)

Work Model: Hybrid - 3 days in office and any key meetings

Locations: Primary = Addison, TX | Additional office sites = Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, NYC, San Francisco and Seattle

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Credera is a global boutique consulting firm that accelerates business transformation and builds valuable customer experiences. Credera works with the best companies in the world, from strategy through execution, to serve clients through our 18 offices across six countries.

Our vision is to be a global boutique consulting firm that is passionately dedicated to people and value by continuing to hire superstars who may feel lost or marginalized within their current organizations.

If you feel:

• there are too many layers between you and decision makers
• that your current organization will not make the right decision even after you identify problems and recommend viable solutions
• you are ready for a bigger voice, larger platform or place for a stronger impact

…then you should consider Credera. Ready to achieve your vision?    

Description:

The Architect, Salesforce works directly with clients and stakeholders to design highly usable, scalable, extensible, and maintainable Salesforce solutions. They are hands-on from proposal to development to deployment and responsible for first level escalations.

Architects are expected to maintain an ongoing comprehensive understanding of the cloud computing ecosystem. They are passionate about their work, self-motivated, detail oriented, team-oriented, excellent communicator and have excellent problem-solving abilities. They will deal with highly ambiguous problems, take responsibility for finding solutions, and will drive towards simple solutions to such complex problems.

They possess a strong knowledge of implementation technologies including but not limited to Salesforce.com products and APIs, Lightning, Mobile Applications, Amazon Web Services, Integration / ETL technologies and more.

The Architect is an integral part of the Credera Solutions team who participates in growing the Salesforce Practice with strategy formulation, team building, project management, mentoring and recruitment.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Participate in the sales cycle as needed (solution definition, pre-sales, estimating and project planning). 
• Meet with clients to determine business, functional and technical requirements to design the technical roadmap to deliver secure, compliant Salesforce solutions based on best practices. 
• Translate business requirements into component-based framework solutions while working with the development team to implement enhancements and new functionality. 
• Perform analysis, design, customization and configuration for data migration and integrations. 
• Participate in and/or lead efforts of full lifecycle development in a mixed environment to support / make new enhancements and automation of existing applications. 
• Ability to define the system landscape, to identify gaps between current and desired end-states. 
• Troubleshoot key implementation issues and drive to successful resolution. 
• Establish client relationships as a trusted advisor while providing first level escalation for client concerns and share key milestone celebrations with the team. 
• Communicate effectively within a globally distributed team. 
• Document best practices and operational procedures.

Requirements:

• Bachelor / Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience required
  • 1+ Current Salesforce Architect Certification is/are required. (Application, Development Lifecycle & Deployment, Data, Integration, Technical…etc.) 
  • 1+ Current Salesforce Developer Certifications is/are required (Platform App Builder, Platform Developer I, Platform Developer II…ect.)

• 8+ years of industry experience in the Salesforce ecosystem | Experience with Sales & Service Cloud are required; Marketing / Community / Commerce / App Clouds…etc are all a strong bonus.
• 5+ years of development in any combination of core competencies: APEX, VisualForce, SOQL, Triggers, Workflows, Unit Testing, Java SE & EE, Java, JSF…etc.
• 3+ years of Architecture Design Solutions within the Salesforce ecosystem
• 3+ years of experience and knowledge of relational databases, data modeling, and ETL tools
• 2+ years of development in Lightning framework (Aura / LWC)
• 2+ years of experience using relational databases and understanding of queries (SQL, T-SQL and/or PL/SQL)
• Solid understanding of and detailed experience with Salesforce architecture and APIs