Salesforce Solutions Architect - Financial Services Cloud

Responsibilities:

• Works with Clients to understand their functional and technical requirements to engineer solutions.
• Works with client's architecture and technical leads for validating proposed design.
• Prepare solution design, ERD, integration strategy, document design notes for stories and review options with technical architects and developers to validate.
• Review implementation and ensure quality of design.
• Provides technical guidance for the development of applications to support business and product strategies.
• Analyze high level project needs, draft solution, prepare roadmap and list use cases, assist in preparing estimates.
• Works closely with our Client’s internal team of Project Managers, Business Analysts and End Users to architect technology solutions that meet their current needs.
• Lead technical requirements gathering sessions, oversee and approve creation and maintenance of application and system documentation used in design, testing or programming efforts and manage integration.
• Assess current architecture; designing secure, high-performance technical solutions.
• Communicate technical solutions and design trade-offs effectively to business stakeholders; and providing a delivery framework that ensures quality and success.
• Enforce use of industry-accepted best practices and development standards to ensure quality delivery.
• Stay current with Salesforce.com best practices, support mechanisms, procedures and limitations.
• Support sales efforts on new business development pursuits, assisting with proposals, responses, architecture assessments and technical qualification

Qualifications:

• 3+ years Salesforce Solution Architecture experience including the design of technical solutions that span multiple platforms and include data and systems integration.
• Must have Insurance domain experience.
• Should have experience with Salesforce Industries - Financial Services Cloud.
• 3+ years involvement with the developing custom Salesforce applications.
• 2+ years articulating design considerations, trade-offs, benefits, and recommendations for a technical architecture.
• 5+ years business systems analysis experience.
• Significant experience providing technical guidance for the development of applications to support business and product strategies.
• Ability to lead technical requirements gathering sessions, oversee and approve creation and maintenance of application and system documentation used in design, testing or programming efforts and manage integration.
• Salesforce systems integration and implementation experience.
• Strong experience preparing documentation using tools such as Lucidchart, Visio, Word and Excel.
• Perform document grooming and size User Stories in Agile management platforms such as JIRA or Rally.

Education:

Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent work experience.