Salesforce Technical Architect, Sales Engineering
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas quickly have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. The sales engineering teams focus is on design, and they lead the technical delivery for Apple's Sales Business. The position will provide architecture, design, development, and project management leadership across multiple projects. This technical architect role serves as hands-on advisors, using functional and/or technical knowledge, as well as Salesforce product knowledge of their client's business.
Description
We are looking for a dedicated Salesforce Technical Architect to design elite Salesforce applications for our evolving CRM requirements. You will be responsible for successfully designing and leading the successful delivery of complex Salesforce solutions for our customers. These technologies include-but are not limited to Salesforce products and APIs, Apex/LWC, mobile development technologies, and integration/ETL technologies. You are both a big picture thinker and in-depth problem solver, your knowledge and skills are both broad and deep. You take pride in designing systems that stand up to high volumes and won't fail at critical points. You have a good mix of technical and enterprise skills when it comes to architecting a solution. The solutions you design are built for the long-term and will scale with the customer's growth plans seamlessly. You have experience integrating systems via API's as well as a strong development background.","responsibilities":"Provide oversight for Salesforce projects and design solutions based on best practices, focusing on point-and-click configurations.
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Lead technical design sessions; architect and document technical solutions aligned with client business objectives; identify gaps between client's current and desired end states
Work with the development team to customize solutions and decide when custom development is necessary.
Create prototypes and proof of concepts to clarify business needs.
Design Data Models, Sharing and Visibility, and Business Process Automation.
Define coding standards and conduct code reviews to ensure quality. Manage technical delivery for custom development, integrations, and data migrations in Salesforce.
Occasionally participate in pre-sales activities, including discovery sessions and POC development.
Collaborate with business stakeholders to define requirements and manage expectations.
Translate these requirements into effective Salesforce solutions. Lead technical design sessions, document solutions, and identify gaps between current and desired states.
Liaise with Salesforce product teams to support client implementations.
Preferred Qualifications
Proven experience designing complex, large-scale Salesforce architectures across multiple Salesforce Clouds (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, etc.).
Understanding of systems architecture and ability to design scalable performance-driven solutions.
Understanding of key design patterns and large data volume limitations and best practices.
Understanding of data sharing and visibility considerations and how these play into platform architecture.
Familiarity with platform authentication patterns (SAML, SSO, OAuth).
Knowledge of data integration tools and experience integrating Salesforce with different business systems (ETL, CPQ, MuleSoft, marketing automation, reporting, etc.).
Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies.
Experience with platform security capabilities (TLS, SSL).
Familiarity with any other CRM application (except Salesforce) will be a big plus.
Familiarity with Java and related frameworks.
Knowledge of data integration tools and experience integrating Salesforce with different business systems (ETL, CPQ, marketing automation, reporting, etc.).
Familiarity with Javascript and front end technologies.
Minimum Qualifications
10+ years experience as a software engineer.
8+ years on the Salesforce platform.
4+ years experience as a Salesforce System Architect, Application Architect, or have a Technical Architect Certification.
4+ years of Salesforce technologies including Apex, Aura, Lightning Web Components (LWC), and Salesforce integrations.
BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
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