Salesforce Technical Architect

Overview

Design. Disrupt. Repeat.

Are you a leader? Energetic? Ever worked as part of a program that’s Agile? Know DevSecOps? Know who Simon Sinek is? Want to work with a great group of people in a growing company? If so…read on. Are you interested in being an agent of change on a team committed to achieving client-focused, mission-driven excellence?

 

Steampunk is seeking an accomplished and visionary Salesforce Technical Architect to oversee the technical design and strategy, delivery excellence, development, and implementation of Salesforce solutions for one of our application development teams. This role will provide technical leadership, governance, and architectural oversight to ensure alignment with business objectives and best practices. This role also combines technical expertise, strategic leadership, and business acumen to manage a team of project-level Salesforce Technical Leads (who oversee the Salesforce Development Team), ensure scalable and innovative solutions, and actively contribute to the expansion of our account through business development and new work opportunities.

 

The ideal candidate has extensive Salesforce expertise supporting federal government clients, a proven ability to manage complex technical landscapes, a strong track record of mentoring and guiding project-level Salesforce Tech Leads/Developers, and the ability to align client objectives with transformative Salesforce solutions while fostering account growth.

Contributions

As a Salesforce Technical Architect, you will be a technical servant leader to agile Salesforce product development teams, supporting technical delivery in a government client consulting environment via a COI orchestration framework. You will be responsible for the ongoing maturation and delivery improvements across these teams and in alignment with each team’s individual objectives. You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining client relationships, developing and documenting standards and guidelines, and performing DevOps and release engineering. Additionally, you will document processes, ensure communication, manage change control and governance, and collaborate with the application development team, Technical Architects, and Project Managers to support delivery success.

 

As a Steampunk Salesforce Technical Architect, you will generally be expected to work with Business Analysts to translate business requirements into well‐architected solutions that best leverage the Salesforce platform. You will oversee an application development team responsible for developing, testing, documenting, and maintaining solutions, integrations, and data migration elements of a Salesforce implementation. This involves utilizing Salesforce declarative or programmatic development resources, including triggers, flows, validations, approvals, Apex classes, and Lightning components (Aura and LWC). You will ensure the team executes test plans to ensure quality delivery using test code and unit tests. You will ensure the development team follows coding standards and participates in code reviews to ensure appropriate design patterns are observed.

 

Delivery Excellence and Governance

• Ensure all projects adhere to Salesforce and industry best practices, including security, scalability, and compliance requirements.
• Conduct regular architecture and design reviews and provide oversight to maintain consistency and alignment with project goals.
• Develop and oversee the adoption of modern DevSecOps and CI/CD practices across the project team for efficient and reliable deployments.
• Integrating open source build servers with GIT and Salesforce Orgs (Scratch Orgs, Sandboxes, and Production).
• Hands-on release engineering, including documenting and scripting of deployment steps via Salesforce APIs using CLI.
• Release orchestration and environment management, including refreshes, syncing, and back deployments.
• Anticipate risks related to scalability, performance, and integration, and provide proactive mitigation strategies.

Continuous Improvement and Innovation

• Stay abreast of Salesforce’s evolving ecosystem, including new products, features, and emerging technologies.
• Identify opportunities to leverage Salesforce innovations to drive business value and improve client outcomes.
• Enforce technical standards and governance models to ensure sustainable and high-quality delivery.

Application Development

• Design, develop, test, document, and deploy high-quality business solutions on the SFDC platform based on industry best practices as well as bu