Remote Salesforce Solution Architect

Summary

The job is for a Salesforce Solution Architect at Saasinct, a woman-owned business that provides consulting and education services to financial services companies and nonprofits. The role involves using technical knowledge, business analysis skills, and business acumen to design and deliver Salesforce solutions. The candidate should have at least 5 years of experience on the Salesforce platform, required certifications, excellent communication skills, and preferably experience in agile development practices and working in the Financial Services or Not-For-Profit verticals.

Requirements

• A minimum 5 years of experience working on the Salesforce platform across multiple clients/companies
• Salesforce Administrator and Platform App Builder certifications are required, Sales, Service, and/or Financial Services Cloud Consultant certifications are preferred
• Familiarity with Salesforce best practices, support mechanisms, procedures, and limitations, as well as experience with all key areas of Salesforce enterprise architecture including integration technologies and master data management is required
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required for this position. Strong client-facing communication and presentation skills with the ability to accurately assess and constructively communicate project risk and manage client expectations is a must for this role

Responsibilities

• Act as an expert guide to our clients, growing Saasinct’s brand through the creative use of technology
• Provide guidance and support to stakeholders to help them determine the most efficient and cost-effective solutions to their business problems
• Articulate design considerations, trade-offs, benefits, and recommendations for technical architecture
• Identify risks or issues that may impact data quality, performance and scalability or usefulness
• Lead and participate in discovery and consulting sessions with customers to capture and analyze business problems and ideal future state
• Conduct business analysis and requirements gathering sessions
• Run grooming sessions to facilitate the negotiation and prioritization of requirements between multiple client stakeholders and teams
• Study business problems, functions, current and future state business processes, and perform business process engineering to design and document solutions
• Summarize business objectives for stakeholders, architect solutions, and lead solution design
• Provide detailed requirements for developers in the form of requirements documents, user stories and functional design documents (FDD)
• Create process flows / diagrams and collaborate with the team to refine elements of design, business and data migration rules
• Lead implementations, providing both oversight and hands-on contributions as required to design and implement data models, build custom Objects, flows, validation rules, reports and dashboards, security controls, and 3rd-party integrations
• Collaborate with Saasinct team members to refine current processes and best practices and make recommendations for more efficient future-state processes and system designs
• Actively participate in Salesforce Community Groups as a subject matter expert and representative of Saasinct
• Assist in marketing and promotional activities; write thought-leadership materials including case studies, blog posts, and articles to help grow Saasinct’s presence, visibility and reputation in the market
• Ensure positive project outcomes by establishing and promoting strong client partnerships, setting and meeting client expectations, and acting as the client’s advocate to accelerate development and ensure project success
• Participate in multiple projects simultaneously, ensure all work tasks are up to date, and provide management reporting to internal team and client stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field preferred but not required
• Knowledge of and experience with agile development practices, prioritization, and sprint planning is strongly preferred
• Experience working in the Financial Services and/or Not-For-Profit verticals is a plus

Benefits

• People-centric and caring company culture committed to giving back
• Career development, training & certification opportunities
• Comprehensive health insurance package including medical, dental and vision
• Employer-paid short term disability insurance
• Base salary and performance-based bonus
• 401(k) with employer match
• Reimbursement for the cost of approved Salesforce certifications upon successful completion
• Personal laptop subsidy