Salesforce Solutions Architect

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Permanent
• Salary: $125,000

As a Salesforce Solutions Architect, you will play an integral role in the high satisfaction of Vantage Point's clients through the design and development of scalable, high-quality Salesforce services and solutions. The Solution Architect is responsible for owning the overall design of the technical application and recommending best practice solutions based on client business needs. This position is 100% remote. We are not accepting contractors, third-party candidates, or providing sponsorship.

Requirements

• 7+ years of consultant experience in a client-facing role
• 5+ years of Salesforce implementation experience
• Strong experience leading technical requirements gathering and solution design sessions with clients
• Superior experience identifying and documenting business processes and technical requirements
• Experience with process flow analysis, data modeling, and functional design
• Experience writing user stories to capture business requirements
• Experience managing a project team relevant to the delivery of the technical solution
• Strong experience in enterprise-level projects using Agile software development methodologies throughout the whole development lifecycle
• Strong experience designing or building Salesforce integrations with third-party systems
• Experience with data migrations from third-party systems to Salesforce
• Familiarity and first-hand experience with third-party solutions that support vertical objectives
• Strong Salesforce development and design skills including Apex, Lightning, SOQL, Process Builder, Flow, and other standard and advanced Salesforce automation tools
• Understands all aspects of Salesforce current and future release functionality including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Communities
• Understands the importance of scalability and maintainability
• Understands when to use a declarative solution versus a code solution
• Strong experience leading release planning and deployment
• Superior experience recommending alternative approaches, analyzing impacts, and facilitating sizing estimates
• Superior experience conducting unit, integration, and performance testing and participating with users for user acceptance testing to support a successful project outcome
• Superior experience analyzing and mitigating bugs and issues as needed to support a successful project outcome
• Strong experience leading design and code reviews

Responsibilities

• Participates in and facilitates customer requirements and solution design workshops
• Captures and maps business requirements to system/technical requirements and identifies gaps and risks
• Assesses and makes recommendations on processes, designs, operations, and testing
• Understands the technical depth of the project and validates the correct resources for the project
• Manages and participates in the entire software development lifecycle
• Recommends alternative approaches, analyzes impacts, and provides sizing estimates
• Leads design and code reviews
• Analyzes and mitigates bugs and issues
• Leads release planning and deployment
• Designs, develops, tests, and documents scalable, high-quality business solutions to be built on the Salesforce platform
• Conducts unit, integration, and performance testing and works closely with users for user acceptance testing
• Supports pre-sales engagements, estimates, and solution design and can articulate what requirements have changed
• Writes technical specifications (for custom development, system integration, etc.) jointly with the developer team
• Documents build plans and delegates work to developers and system administrators
• Works closely with our clients to assess their current architecture and architect solutions that meet their current needs
• Articulates the value of recommended solutions and approach to customer