Salesforce Architect

Summary

Join our team as a Salesforce Architect at Saxon Global Inc., where you'll establish enterprise technical direction for Salesforce.com and collaborate with internal and external partners to define, plan, and implement the technical platform strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or other related areas
• 6+ years of IT experience
• 3+ years of technical platform experience architecting high-performance, scalable solutions in Salesforce.com
• Experience in architecting and supporting enterprise scale Salesforce environments that span more than one production Salesforce Org (not including Sandboxes)
• Participated in the delivery of mobile capabilities via Salesforce1, 3rd Party Solutions, or custom built native applications
• Ability to creatively solve problems and provide timely and sound recommendations
• Experience leading and influencing peers, organization, and leaders directly and/or through a matrix organization
• Demonstrated ability to manage relationships with both internal and external customers
• Must have a proven track record of working independently and collaboratively

Responsibilities

• Establish enterprise technical direction for Salesforce.com
• Explore solutions via external research for existing and emerging solutions and trends
• Ensure delivery solutions are technically sound, resilient to failure, and operationally supportable
• Collaborate with internal and external partners for the definition, planning, modeling, governance, and implementation of the technical platform strategy
• Ensure strategies, standards, and reference architectures are consistent and well integrated
• Define, apply, and promote the use of patterns, optimized architectures, best practices, and processes
• Identify architectural risks and plans to mitigate
• Identify solution alternatives and facilitate tradeoff discussions, impact analysis, and solution estimation efforts
• Guidance on establishing a globally common approach to mobility and cloud-based solutions
• Strategy/roadmap development for future technical platform solutions areas appropriate for business need

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise scaled architectural initiatives
• Experience communicating complex, technical concepts to executive staff, business sponsors, and internal resources in clear, concise language that is tailored to the audience
• Experience in other non-Salesforce customer facing application used to deliver on marketing or e-commerce initiatives
• Experience deploying multi-tier cloud solutions through IaaS providers