Salesforce - Technical Architect

ZipRecruiter; Clackmannan; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Clackmannan seeks an experienced Salesforce Solutions Architect to drive tailored solutions on the Salesforce Cloud platform. You will manage a team of developers, ensuring best practices are followed. This hybrid role offers excellent perks including private healthcare and a generous pension plan. Join a team focused on innovative technology projects and help shape the future of our services.

Benefits

Sky Q and Sky Glass access

Generous pension

Private healthcare

Discounted mobile and broadband

Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Salesforce Digital Commerce platform.
• Strong design and development skills across Salesforce platform.
• Knowledge of industry CPQ offerings.

Responsibilities

• Deliver tailored solutions across the Salesforce Ecosystem.
• Drive adoption of best practices.
• Manage a team of Salesforce developers and architects.

Skills

Salesforce Digital Commerce

Comms Cloud

Apex

CI/CD

Object Oriented design

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Job description

Overview

Are you a motivated Salesforce Solutions Architect who is passionate about Cloud and application architecture? Do you have expert knowledge of Salesforce products and are you looking to get involved at the onset of a new platform and have the chance to really make an impact?

What you'll do

• Partner with product owners and solutions architecture to deliver tailored solutions across the Salesforce Ecosystem to support and realise business requirements (Sales, Service, Communications, Experience and Marketing Clouds).
• Drive adoption of best practices and support a community of Salesforce Technical Designers across a wide range of initiatives to support business growth, adoption and exploitation of the Salesforce platform.
• Employ robust engineering principles and practices across the design, development and delivery of changes to the Salesforce platform, working across Communities of Practice to foster continuous improvement and define best practices across the Salesforce ecosystem.
• Perform technical analysis, design and support the implementation of changes to the Salesforce platform, leveraging OOTB capabilities and customization where necessary.
• Contribute to improvement of DevOps processes, ways of working and tools including scrum, user support, platform security, quality, version control and CI/CD.
• Work with domain and cross-functional agile teams to support and enhance features in CPQ, EPC, CLM and OM to support Salesforce application offerings in iterative release cycles.
• Manage and train a team of Salesforce developers and architects to build solutions using Visualforce, Lightning, APEX, APIs and Comms Cloud components (OmniScripts, Data Raptors, Omnistudio Cards, Omnistudio Product Designer, Omnistudio Pricing Designer and Integration Procedures).

What you'll bring

• Extensive and in-depth experience of the Salesforce Digital Commerce platform and business processes including Comms Cloud (Vlocity, CPQ, EPC, OM, CLM), Sales, Service, Experience and Marketing Clouds, ideally in a Communications environment.
• Experience in design and development across the Salesforce platform including OmniScripts, Data Raptors, Omnistudio (Cards, Product Designer, Pricing Designer), Digital Commerce (including Cart based APIs), Lightning Web Component Framework, Apex, Triggers, SOQL/SOSL, Flows, Integration Procedures, Orchestration Plans and Event Driven integrations with external systems using SOAP, REST, BULK, Platform events and Streaming APIs.
• Experience of Salesforce core and Comms Cloud performance considerations and knowledge/techniques to avoid performance degradation.
• Good knowledge of industry CPQ offerings such as Assetization, Product lifecycle management, Digital Commerce/Cart based APIs and external APIs.
• Experience in building complex, scalable and high-performance software systems, including object modelling and OO design patterns; TOGAF principals would be advantageous.
• Experience with Version Control Systems and Continuous Integration/Delivery (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins) using Vlocity Build tool (CLI) or Vlocity IDX tool and SFDX. Knowledge of SonarQube or other static code analysis tools and ELK or Splunk for log analysis would be beneficial.

Team overview

UK&I Technology — Ground-breaking projects. Innovative tech. Top innovation. You’ll work across technology projects that drive Sky’s TV, broadband, mobile and Sky Connect services, delivering technology roadmaps that support UK and Ireland businesses and customer-focused Sky Glass initiatives.

The rewards

Perks include Sky Q and Sky Glass access, a generous pension, private healthcare, discounted mobile and broadband, and Sky VIP rewards and experiences.

How you'll work

Hybrid working with a mix of office and home-based arrangements. Details on hybrid working provided during recruitment.

Your office space

Livingston Watermark House; shuttle from Livingston South train station; onsite parking; subsidised canteen; onsite gym and recreation facilities.

We’d love to hear from you

Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. If you believe in better, we’ll back you all the way.

Note: If your application is successful, a criminal record check may be required. Depending on the role and nature of any convictions, an offer may be withdrawn.