Expert Architect, Software Engineering (Salesforce)

Join a great place to work with MissionSquare, a financial services corporation with approximately $75 billion in assets under management and administration and over 600 employees.

Founded in 1972, MissionSquare is dedicated to the retirement needs of public sector employees.

We focus on delivering results-oriented retirement and retiree health savings plans, education, investment options, personalized guidance, and related services to public sector participants in more than 9,200 plans and nearly 1.3 million participant accounts.

We strive to make the administration of retirement programs as easy and cost-effective as possible.

We have an extraordinary talent base and invite you to consider joining MissionSquare's Technology team.

The Expert Architect, Software Engineering (Salesforce) is a member of MissionSquare Retirement’s Technology team creating MissionSquare’s next generation technology applications.

As part of an agile delivery team, the Architect works with the Salesforce Product Manager, business owners and technical delivery teams to design complex cloud-based solutions using Salesforce, Salesforce Financial Services Cloud and related technologies.

Essential Functions for this role include:


* Own the development and delivery of Salesforce features from inception through production implementation.


* Own the technical standards for the development and integration of the Salesforce solution including UI/UX standards.


* Collaborate with the Salesforce Product Manager to break themes and epics into features and document feature acceptance criteria.


* Estimate epic and feature sizes using agile relative sizing techniques.


* Lead high level feature design sessions and communicate high level designs to delivery teams.


* Identify implementation options for solutions and assess them for both technical and business suitability; determine nature and scope of changes to existing applications for enhancements and other changes.


* Work with technical team members to split features into user stories and provide guidance and oversight to delivery team members as they document story detail and acceptance criteria.


* Review and provide feedback on detailed technical design.


* Collaborate with Salesforce team members to ensure Salesforce development team follows best practices when architecting, programming and documenting solutions.

This includes creating standards and documentation and leveraging processes to ensure all development staff follow the same technical standards and guidelines.


* Work with feature delivery teams to ensure testing and documentation are created or updated in accordance with team standards.


* Conduct vendor analysis and proof-of-concepts/prototypes for new technologies/solutions.


* Act as knowledge integrator and translator between business users and technical team members; communicate effectively with developers, infrastructure architects and engineers, busin...