Salesforce Technical Architect

GCS; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS is seeking a Salesforce Technical Architect to lead architecture across Salesforce products and cloud offerings. You will design and implement robust solutions, mentor developers, and drive best practices across multiple Salesforce Clouds like Sales, Service, Marketing and CPQ.

The role involves guiding platform engineering, managing DevOps workflows, and collaborating with cross-functional teams in a hybrid setup with 2 days in the office in the UK.

Qualifications

• Extensive Salesforce platform knowledge across Sales, Service, Marketing Clouds.
• Experience with OmniScripts, Data Raptors, Omnistudio components and Integration Procedures.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD processes and platform security.
• Ability to mentor and lead a team of Salesforce developers and architects.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product owners and solutions architecture to deliver Salesforce solutions across Clouds.
• Drive adoption of best practices and support a community of Salesforce Technical Designers.
• Apply engineering principles to design, develop and deliver changes to the Salesforce platform.
• Contribute to DevOps improvements, including version control, security and quality tooling.
• Collaborate with agile teams to enhance features in CPQ, EPC, CLM and OM.

Skills

Salesforce Architecture

Cloud & Enterprise Architecture

Agile & DevOps

Team Leadership

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Vlocity Build

SFDX

Omnistudio

Job description

Are you a motivated Salesforce Technical 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?

Note: This role is based out in Livingston, Leeds OR London (2days/week in office)

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 a number of Communities of Practice to foster a culture of continuous improvement, working to define and implement best practices across the Salesforce ecosystem.
• Perform technical analysis, design and support implementation of changes to Salesforce platform following best practices, leveraging OOTB capabilities and customisation when 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 advise 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 that have been successfully delivered to customers. Knowledge of TOGAF principals would be advantageous.
• Experience with Version Control Systems and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery CI/CD workflows (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins) using Vlocity Build tool (CLI) or Vlocity IDX tool and SFDX. Knowledge of using SonarQube or other static code analysis tools and ELK or Splunk for log analysis would also be beneficial for this role.

GCS is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy