Salesforce Solution Architect

The Solution Architect is responsible for owning the overall design of the technical application as well as recommending best practice solutions based on client business needs., * Facilitates discovery workshops, in tandem with other team members, to gather customer requirements, understand customer personas and elicit user stories

• Assess client current architecture and architect solutions that meet client needs
• Create solution design and articulate design to client and team; articulate value and gain buy-off; ensure user story definition clarity and perform quality reviews
• Develop POCs and demos to articulate design concepts to client, including best practice recommendations; elicit feedback and adjust design to meet needs
• Provide technical guidance to the team and ensure standards are met or exceeded
• Assess and make recommendations on processes, designs, operations, and testing
• Understands the technical depth of the project and validates the correct resources for the project
• Recommend alternate approaches, analyze impacts, and provide sizing estimates
• Participates in design and code reviews
• Analyzes and mitigates bugs and issues
• Provides release planning, devops governance and deployment plans
• Conducts unit, integration, and performance testing and work closely with users for user acceptance testing
• Writes technical specifications (for custom development, system integration, etc.) jointly with the technical team members
• Documents build plans and delegates work to team members

• 5+ years consultant experience within Salesforce projects leading external, client-facing technical consulting services for complex system implementations
• 3+ years developing custom Salesforce applications
• 3+ years of Salesforce experience complex third-party solutions
• Experience managing project team relevant to the delivery of the technical solution
• Experience in enterprise-level projects using Agile software development methodologies throughout the whole life cycle
• Experience with third party solutions that support vertical objectives
• Ability to lead technical requirements gathering & solution design sessions with clients
• Superior Salesforce development and design skills including Apex, Lightning, SOQL, Flow and other standard and advanced Salesforce automation tools
• Deep familiarity with Salesforce products including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Experience Cloud
• Experience deploying web-based and enterprise systems using industry standard environments including REST, APIs, SQL, JavaScript, and HTML
• Understands testing and release processes
• Strong aptitude for prioritization and multitasking in a deadline-driven environment

This is an FTE hybrid/onsite role - and is based in Austin, TX. Candidates must be local/willing to travel in office 4 days/week.

The salary range for this role is $165,000-$195,000k & benefits / bonus.