Salesforce Architect/Release Specialist (REMOTE)

Our team is a leading provider of Digital Transformation services for Federal agencies. Our services focus on enabling agency mission and business transformation using industry-leading low-code platforms, mobile applications, robotics process automation and data analytics platforms. We are partnered with some of the world’s leading and most innovative companies like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Appian, Microsoft and UiPath. We focus on offering a full range of architecture and planning, system implementation, integration, analytics, and O&M for our customers.  

We are seeking a Salesforce Architect to join a Salesforce Center of Excellence as a senior technical advisor, platform technical lead, and deployment specialist.  Support will span from pre-sales solution consultation, design/code reviews during implementation, management of the CI/CD process, and operational support activities.  The candidate will provide assistance in establishing new platform services, technology standards, security standards, change management process etc. for large federal agencies. 

The candidate must demonstrate progressive leadership in the full life cycle of the software development environment. We desire prior experience with establishing a salesforce.com Center of Excellence with emphasis on governance, setting of multi-Org rollout strategy, introduction of new platform services, and Release and Change Management Processes, including DevOps and CI/CD. Experience in providing program oversight and technical architecture for Salesforce applications. Excellent analytical, technology, communication, decision making and problem-solving skills.  Communications is key, for as Salesforce Subject Matter Expert (SME), you will help the client maximize their Salesforce investment.  

This is a client facing SME role where you will support the client in maximizing their Salesforce investment. 

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Lead the Architectural Review Board with responsibility for critical analysis of technical architecture designs, code & configuration, sharing models, integrations, and overall solution strategy, including Org strategy, org migration, and alignment with Salesforce best practices. 

• Execute Change and Release Management for the Salesforce applications using DevOps and CI/CD processes. 

• Assist the client in a pre-sales capacity by meeting with prospective end-user customers, conducting discovery, mapping functional requirements to Salesforce platform capabilities, identifying gaps requiring third party systems or utilities, and preparing & presenting solution recommendations. 

• Assist with onboarding new CoE customer project teams onto the platform to begin development initiatives. 

• Work with Client's enterprise architecture team to define technical development guidelines and security guidelines for Salesforce based applications. 

• Perform code reviews and ensure team deliverables are vetted against best practices. 

• Provide guidance on master data management associated with Salesforce, including data capture, indexing, warehousing, storing, cleansing and security. 

• Manage source code and associated repositories for salesforce applications. 

• Recommend Salesforce.com integration strategies with different business systems, including working use of leading integration tools. 

• Provide strong leadership and mentoring of junior resources.  

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Must be a US Citizen per Federal contract requirement. 

• Must have experience supporting US Federal and/or State customers. 

• 5+ years of experience as the lead Architect on large-scale Salesforce implementations, including Experience Cloud. 

• 5+ years of software development and system design experience. 

• 3+ years of strong hands-on experience creating/deploying Flows, Lightning components, VisualForce, Salesforce configurations, Apex classes, APEX Web services, APIs, sharing models, Reports and Dashboards, and AppExchange utilities. 

• 3+ years of hands-on Release Management experience. 

• 2+ years experience with OmniStudio and Salesforce Public Sector Solutions. 

PREFERRED: 

• Certified Application Architect OR Certified System Architect highly preferred. 

• Experience on Federal Salesforce projects preferred. 

• Experience with Salesforce Shield products. 

• Experience in Salesforce with end-to-end implementation in the following areas: 

• Understanding of key SFDC architectural concepts and how they influence design. 

• Data Migration, SSO, email relay, and web services experience involving the Salesforce platform. 

• Integrating Salesforce.com with 3rd party solutions like Docusign, eSignLive, Own Backup & Recovery, telephony systems, etc. 

• Experience with Mulesoft and APIs for systems integration with Salesforce.