Technical Architect - Salesforce Sales Cloud Job

Experience

10-13 Years

Job Description

• Lead the design and development of technical solutions, ensuring they align with business objectives and 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.
• Establish standards and best practices, frameworks and methodologies and reference architectures and implementations for Technical, Business and Industry solutions.
• Groom and mentor Junior Technical Architects in the team.

Required Technical/ Functional Competencies

System Design:

• Has good understanding of system design principles.
• Can independently design moderately complex systems and can explain design decisions to stakeholders.

Technical Architecture Design:

• Has good knowledge and experience in implementing technical architectures.
• Can design technical architectures that meet basic business requirements.
• Able to work independently with some guidance and may require support in more complex scenarios.

Emerging Technologies:

• Manages emerging technology projects, ensures best practices are being followed.
• Develops and implements emerging technology strategies that support the organization's strategic objectives.

Architecture tools and frameworks:

• Has expert knowledge of architecture Industry tools & frameworks with accreditation/certification in the relevant areas.
• Ability to tailor architectural methods, tools selection & customization as per need.
• Can independently make decisions in tool selection process and provide future direction for tools and framework selection.

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:

• 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:

• Being a role model for taking initiative and ensuring others take initiative, removing obstacles for others, taking ownership for results and deadlines for self and others, and acting as a role model for being responsible.

Agility:

• Works with a diverse set of situations, people and groups and adapts and motivates self and team to thrive in changing environment.

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.

Customer Focus:

• Engages in executive customer discovery to predict future needs of customers and drives customer relationships with a long-term focus and takes actions to enhance customer loyalty.

Communication:

• Communicates and presents complex ideas, information, and data to multiple, broad, and demanding stakeholders internal and/or external to the Organization.
• Helps others communicate better with their audience. Demonstrates honest, direct, and transparent communication and facilitates conversations within the team and its close collaborators.

Drives Results:

• Proactively seeks challenging and differentiated opportunities and drives and motivates team members to take on more responsibility.

Resolves Conflict:

• Balances the business interests of all stakeholders and manages any conflicts offering mutually beneficial options.

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