Senior Salesforce Solution Architect Full Time

Morson International (IT)

Senior Salesforce Solution Architect

£102.87p/h INSIDE IR35

Mainly remote, however some site visits will be required (Leeds, Guildford, or London)

6 months initital contract

Role Description

The role holder designs, describes, and manages the Salesforce solution engineering in relation to specific business development problems. The lead solution architect is also in charge of leading the practice and introducing the overall technical vision for Salesforce.
The role holder also leads the work with stakeholders, both leadership and subject matter experts, to build a holistic view of the Salesforce strategy and architectural roadmap and ensures that the business and IT are in alignment.
The role holder also translates software requirements into workable programming code and maintain and develop programs for use in business. Involves writing specifications and designing, building, testing, implementing and supporting applications using programming languages and development tools.

Core Duties

• Finding the best tech solution among all possible to solve the existing business development or commercial problems
• Describing the structure, characteristics, behaviour, of Salesforce to project stakeholders
• Defining features, phases, and Salesforce solution requirements
• Providing Salesforce specifications according to which the solution is defined, managed, and delivered
• Managing maintenance, data and security risks related to Salesforce and tributary systems.
• Building employee skills and knowledge in Salesforce
• Teaming up with business analysts to ensure Salesforce solutions meet the BD requirements
• Reviewing Salesforce and presenting ideas for system improvements
• Producing detailed specifications and writing the programme codes
• Testing Salesforce in controlled, real situations before go live
• Maintaining the system and code once it is up and running

Key Accountabilities

• Leads the development of Salesforce solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Leads the preparation of technical plans and ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available. Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development.
• Provides technical guidance and governance on Salesforce solution development and integration. Evaluates requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommends actions.
• Ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly.
• Manages the Salesforce innovation pipeline and executes innovation processes.
• Develops and adapts innovation tools, processes and infrastructures to drive the process of innovation. Identifies resources and capabilities needed to support innovation.
• Encourages and motivates innovation communities, teams and individuals to share creative ideas and learn from failures.
• Manages and facilitates the communication and open flow of creative ideas between interested parties and the set-up of innovation networks and communities.
• Plans and leads the identification and assessment of emerging technologies and the evaluation of potential impacts, threats and opportunities.
• Creates Salesforce technology roadmaps that align organisational Business Development plans with emerging technology solutions. Engages with, and influences, relevant stakeholders to obtain organisational commitment to technology roadmaps.
• Develops organisational guidelines for monitoring emerging technologies.
• Collaborates with internal and external parties to facilitate intelligence gathering.
• Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services.
• Contributes to the selection of the software development methods, tools and techniques.
• Applies agreed standards and tools to achieve well-engineered outcomes.
• Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for systems testing.
• Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress. Defines complex/new integration builds. Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured.
• Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build. Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system.
• Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders and to handle functional and non-functional requirements.
• Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed system components to enable approval by stakeholders.
• Produces detailed Salesforce design specifications to form the basis for the construction of systems. Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.
• Collaborates with those responsible for ongoing systems and software life cycle management to select, adopt and adapt working practices.
• Supports deployment of the working environment for systems and software life cycle working practices.
• Provides effective feedback to encourage development of the individuals and teams responsible for systems and software life cycle working practices. Provides guidance and makes suggestions to support continual improvement and learning approach.
• Contributes to identifying new domains within the organisation where systems and software life cycle working practices can be deployed.
• Plans and drives Salesforce user experience design activities, providing expert advice and guidance to support the adoption of agreed approaches.
• Determines the approaches to be used to design Salesforce user experiences.
• Uses iterative approaches to incorporate user feedback or evaluation rapidly into Salesforce designs.
• Integrates required visual design and branding into the user experience design activities.