Associate Technical Architect - Salesforce Development Job

Experience

8-10 Years

Job Description

• Lead with business stakeholders, project managers, and development teams to design and deliver technical solutions that meet business requirements.
• Define technical standards and best practices, frameworks and methodologies and reference architecture and design patterns for the development and implementation of the technical solution.
• Work closely with Engineering Manager to establish guidelines for software engineering practices including code organization, branching strategies, code coverage & quality,CI/CD pipelines, security/performance guidelines.
• Create and maintain technical documents, such as architectural diagrams, system documentation, and standard operating procedures.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring adherence to defined best practices and standards.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews to identify and address technical risks and issues early in the development lifecycle.
• Identify and mitigate technical debt and other technical issues that impact the performance and maintainability of software systems.
• Conduct research on emerging technologies and making recommendations on how to leverage them to improve existing systems and processes.

Required Technical/ Functional Competencies

System Design:

• Has basic understanding of system design principles.
• Able to contribute to small-scale design discussions.

Technical Architecture Design:

• Understands basic technical architecture concepts and principles.
• Able to follow instructions to implement a design.
• Limited experience in designing technical architectures.

Emerging Technologies:

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

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.

Design Principles and Implementation:

• Good understanding of design principles and implementation techniques.
• Can work independently on simple design tasks but may require support for complex projects.
• Demonstrates the ability to apply standard design practices effectively.

Product/ Technology Knowledge:

• Expert knowledge of the customer's product and technology specification.
• 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.
• Analyze various frameworks/tools and present recommendations, contribute to development of training and certification material, and demonstrate thought leadership through whitepapers and webinars.

Estimation and Resource Planning:

• Good Understanding of estimation and resource planning techniques, such as the WBS model.
• Identify the resources required to complete a task and use appropriate estimation models for low to medium complexity scenarios.

S/w Engineering Principles & Best Practices:

• Good understanding of software design patterns and principles.
• Knowledge of version control systems and basic DevOps concepts with awareness of testing methodologies and tools.
• Able to develops and maintains medium-complexity software components.
• Writes clean, maintainable code and follows best practices.
• Participates in code reviews and offers constructive feedback.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams and can work independently on projects.

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