Salesforce Solution Architect
As a Salesforce Solution Architect within EPAM Salesforce Practice, you will work with business teams, collect business requirements, identify essential business needs, design and communicate solutions, break down features and estimate efforts.
Your responsibilities include documenting the architectural design, leading the development process, and tracking evolving requirements.
Our Salesforce team operates in multiple locations, using Agile methodologies to deliver innovative solutions based on industry and technology best practices.
We serve a range of industries, providing Salesforce solutions for retail, media, healthcare, finance and information services, among others.
Responsibilities
- Design technical solutions that meet both functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring quality and adherence to timelines
- Engage with business partners to understand business requirements and deliver innovative and efficient solutions
- Collaborate with technology teams (Development, Infrastructure, PMO, etc.) to conceptualize and implement scalable and sustainable technical solutions using Salesforce technologies
- Lead a development team to create and implement innovative solutions while following standards, best practices, and code quality techniques
- Establish and improve development standards and processes
- Maintain expertise in functionality and solution architecture
- Manage the detailed design of technical solutions, Proof-of-Concept (POC), prototyping, and documentation of technical design throughout the SDLC process
- Build effective working relationships with key technology team members
- Create prototypes to support solution architecture activities
- Partner with architects, vendors, partners, and business and technical teams to translate business needs into capability/platform roadmaps and work towards realizing these roadmaps
- Assist in triaging and resolving defects for scheduled releases and production
- Support Salesforce platform management tasks like app evaluations, profiles/org hierarchy design, system integration, capacity planning, and defining SLA measurements
- Promote best practices, governance measures, and patterns for custom and configured solutions on the Salesforce platform
Requirements
- 5+ years combined IT experience
- 2+ years architecture experience across Salesforce clouds (Sales, Marketing, Service, Platform clouds, etc.) and lightning components
- 3+ years development experience on the Salesforce platform (Apex, Visualforce, etc.)
- Understanding of Salesforce technologies (clouds, offerings, custom development, integration, etc.)
- Solid background in Salesforce CPQ
- Certification in SFDC Architect, Advanced Developer, and/or Developer is highly preferred
- Background in web development skills (HTML CSS/JavaScript)
- Qualifications in JavaScript frameworks (AngularJS, jQuery) preferred
- Proficiency in Agile development methods and practices
- Capability to foster new ideas and concepts
- Strong communication skills with the ability to navigate strong opinions and constraints to reach a commonly agreed solution design
- Capacity to mentor and coach other team members
- Upper-Intermediate (B2) level of English or higher
