Lead Architect

Lead Architect
Serves as key contributor working in partnership with Release Train and Delivery Teams to guide the strategy, design, implementation, and support for enterprise solutions. Works closely with the business and technology leadership to establish an architectural framework and the definition of technology strategy, standards, polices, and roadmaps. The ideal candidate is an experienced architectural leader with demonstrated experience defining, designing, and integrating with Salesforce based solutions and should be comfortable operating with direct and indirect influence. If no Salesforce experience, ability to quickly ramp up on Salesforce ecosystem.
Responsibilities
Architecture Vision and Direction

• Assists with the development of frameworks, standards, policies, principles, and procedures that guide technology decisions and maximize reuse of technology.
• Drive's quality in the solution architectures developed.
• Stays current on technologies and architectures to stay ahead of engineering to be able to provide technical Roadmaps
• Facilitates technical design reviews, ensuring adherence to architectural standards and consistency across organizational and design boundaries.
• Participates in the conceptual phases of identifying and solving business problems and initiatives.
• Creates a culture of knowledge sharing and failing forward, providing opportunities for engineers to learn from each other's successes and challenges.

Technical Architecture Development

• Evaluates performance, security, reliability, operations, technology, and interoperability requirements and produces high level design deliverables that enable development teams to produce products that are flexible, scalable, and secure.
• Communicates technical architectures, relevant technologies, practices, platforms, and products to delivery team and other stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science degree or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education.
• 7+ years of experience in full development life cycle and significant experience in delivering applications and architecture services in a production environment.
• 3+ years of experience in the implementation of structured design and architecture processes in a corporate environment.
• Software development background in modern server-side computing stacks with Java/Spring Boot preferred.
• Software development background in the Salesforce eco-system preferred
• Strong background in API design patterns including RESTful APIs, messaging-based APIs and other architectural integration patterns.
• A solid understanding of the solutions architecture, data model, and strategy of a Salesforce based platform and integrations.
• Ability to quickly evaluate and learn in new situations and apply to business initiatives and outcomes.
• Deep understanding of the architecture discipline, processes, and concepts.
• Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, including ability to effectively communicate architectural issues and concepts to multiple organization levels.

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