Salesforce Architect

Job Summary:

Connected is a multi-year strategic program to digitally transform Sales, Recruiting, and Marketing capabilities for Allegis Group and its operating companies.  The Domain Architect (DA) – Salesforce role is a core member of the Connected team responsible for designing innovative solutions on the Salesforce platform, developing project and platform standards, guiding development teams throughout execution, and delivering high-quality solutions.

You must possess a unique combination of business acumen and analytical focus with a strong, deep technical background in Salesforce technologies.

The DA is responsible for:


* Providing big-picture thinking and in-depth problem-solving expertise to guide analysis, architecture, & design of solutions on the Salesforce platform


* Assessing business requirements; creating, evolving, & approving technical designs; creating technical and solution design diagrams and documentation; partnering with Architecture, Product, and UX team members to design experiments and potential solutions


* Estimating initial effort and technical feasibility given very broad and/or limited statements to enable business prioritization and planning


* Presenting solution designs to broader Architecture teams and the Architecture Review Board for feedback and approval prior to implementation


* Creating durable, scalable technology solutions, guiding execution from design to production.


* Ensuring quality and integrity of a solution, including viability in the Production environment.


* Managing technology lifecycles and applications within the Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) system

The DA must be able to communicate effectively by:


* Speaking the language of business – understanding business problems and translating needs into viable technical solutions with measurable outcomes.


* Speaking the language of architecture – capabilities, frameworks, APIs, patterns, maturity models, roadmaps, physical, logical, functional diagrams, use cases, etc.


* Speaking the language of technology - new technologies and trends, data, modeling, POCs, non-functional requirements, SLAs, comparing/constrasting products in a given technology space, etc.

The DA will:


* Guide a solution from concept to delivery - envision and create solutions; model the solution components and integration points; prove feasibility of a design; and ultimately implement and support a solution in the Production environment.


* Provide hands-on, expert-level technical assistance to developers


* Adhere to team and Enterprise Architecture (EA) standards, and assist in defining new standards, methodologies, and frameworks


* Ensure that new technology solutions are designed for optimal access and usefulness, rationalizing technical debt and leveraging existing technologies whenever possible.


* Create near/mid-term roadmaps – evaluating technologies to address gaps, reduce technic...