Associate Architect - Salesforce Job

Experience

8-10 Years

Job Description

• Assist in design of technology solutions during bid-phase as part of Lead to Closure process.
• Participate and contribute to the development of design and specifications (PTG activities).
• Participate in the review and evaluation of existing systems and processes to identify areas for improvement.
• Participate in exploring the new and emerging technologies to check if it can adopt to the client needs.
• Collaborate with other teams, such as sales, account advisory group, and project management, to ensure that solutions are implemented effectively. 
• Communicate with clients and stakeholders to understand their needs and provide technical guidance and support.
• Assist in the preparation of technical documentation, such as solution architecture diagrams, system integration plans, and implementation guides.
• Ensuring that solutions meet performance, security, and compliance requirements of the client requirements.

Required Technical/ Functional Competencies

Emerging Technologies:

• Understands emerging technologies.
• Able to contribute to the development of emerging technology artifacts and research emerging technologies.

Proposal Defense:

• Basic understanding of the proposal's content, goals, and strategy.
• Participates in proposal defense meetings and presentations.
• Collaborates with team members to prepare responses to potential issues

Requirement Gathering and Analysis:

• Has basic concepts and terminology related to requirement gathering and analysis.
• Able to identify and describe requirements but require guidance and supervision to perform these tasks effectively.
• Have limited experience in creating and reviewing requirements and are not able to independently conduct analysis of requirements.

Solution Design:

• Understands solution design principles.
• Able to contribute to the development and implementation of solution design artifacts for solutions.

Architecture concepts and principles:

• Provides architectural design and documentation at an application or function capability level.
• Participate in establishing and maintaining architecture standards and processes.
• Implement architectural patterns in solution and engagements
• Produce architectural artefacts using industry standards tools.

Architecture tools and frameworks:

• Accreditation/certification in at least one relevant area of industry tools and frameworks.
• Working knowledge of top tools in Magic Quadrant like Aris from Software AG
• Ability to implement tools and frameworks in complex scenarios and conduct customization workshops.

Product/Technology Knowledge:

• Implement code or configure/customize products, drive adoption of industry standards and practices, and contribute to development of reusable assets and innovative solutions.
• Work on complex modules independently.
• Analyse various frameworks/tools and present recommendations, contribute to development of training and certification material, and demonstrate thought leadership through whitepapers and webinars.

Required Behavioral Competencies

Accountability:

• Takes responsibility for and ensures accuracy of results and deadlines of the function and/or team and in completing own work.

Collaboration:

• Reaches out to others in team to ensure connections are made and team members are working together.
• Looks for ways to integrate work with other teams, identifying similarities and opportunities, making necessary changes in work to ensure successful integration.

Agility:

• Demonstrates openness to the possibilities that change presents and begins to plan for how role may change.
• Works with others to prepare for change.

Customer Focus:

• Identifies trends and patterns emerging from customer preferences and works towards customizing/ refining existing services to exceed customer needs and expectations.

Communication:

• Communicates well-organized ideas, information, and data to broad and diverse audiences across the Organization (through formal and informal presentations).
• Helps others identify their appropriate audience.

Drives Results:

• Sets realistic stretch goals for self & others and perseveres to follow through with resilience and remains calm in a crisis or stressful situation to exceed organization/client expectation.

Resolves Conflict:

• Identifies and understands the source of conflict, addresses, and overcomes.

Certifications