Job Title: Salesforce Architect
Location: LISLE IL 60532 Medium
Duration: / Term: 6+ months Contract
Experience Desired: 10+ Years.
Responsibilities:
- Work location: Lisle, IL 60502Hybrid
- resource must be Local? no
- must-have" skills for this role: 1. Sales cloud 2. Service Cloud 3. Marketing cloud Architect
- Years of experience required for each skill. 7+ with 3 years architect experience
- nice-to-have" skills: 1. Agile 2. Cloud Azure 3. Siebel
- chances for extension? Yes
job description:
- Lead the Salesforce Development Team in the design and development of Salesforce custom solutions comprising of work in Apex, Visual Force, Salesforce APIs, Lightning, and data migration.
- Oversee the development work of junior developers and ensure the use of best practices in all development efforts.
- Communicate with project managers, clients and other developers to design cohesive project strategies and ensure effective collaboration throughout all phases of development, testing and deployment.
- Maintain a flexible and proactive work environment to facilitate a quick response to changing project requirements and customer objectives and innovate ways to meet mission goals successfully.
- Interact directly with clients, managers and end users as necessary to analyze project objectives and capability requirements, including specifications for user interfaces, customized applications and interactions with internal Salesforce instances.
- Assist the Support Team with escalated issues arising from support of internal and customer-facing Salesforce environment, especially related to customized applications, user permissions, security settings, custom objects and workflows
- Facilitate solution design sessions and code reviews, advocate Salesforce best practices, recommend alternate approaches and create architectural designs.
- Provide estimates of work effort for new projects and enhancements. Design, code, and test solutions. Analyze and mitigate issues identified during testing.
- Follow an iterative software development methodology and contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle and support.
- Facilitate and actively participate in meetings with representatives from business and/or IT units.
- Take accountability for quality of deliverables, provide status on development effort, and deliver on time and as per specifications.
Technical Skills:
- In-depth knowledge of Salesforce products and services, including Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Partner Communities, B2B Commerce and Service Cloud
- Expertise in various technical areas such as data modeling, integration, security and customization
- Proficient with Apex, Visual Force, Lightning, Java, and JavaScript
- Proficient with Object Oriented Programming methodology and Salesforce best practices
- Previous experience with Azure DevOps, DX, Tricentis Tosca, Oracle SOA a plus
Qualifications:
- Self-motivated and creative
- Highly detail oriented, accurate, and organized
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to handle complexity
- Proven ability to succeed in a cross-functional environment working with business users, project team members and IT development personnel
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Experience in an Agile development environment
- Strong customer service orientation; enjoys people and creates raving fans
- Preference given to candidates located within commuting distance of Lisle, IL and willing to work in a hybrid environment
- Required/Preferred Certifications: Salesforce Technical Architect certification or similar credential preferred