Salesforce Solution Architect

Jobs via Dice; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech solutions firm located in Chicago is seeking an experienced architect to lead Salesforce projects. The ideal candidate should have at least 7 years in IT and a strong background in delivering complex projects using Salesforce products. Responsibilities include contributing to strategic business initiatives, developing architecture solutions, and guiding delivery teams. Ideal candidates will possess certifications and demonstrate strategic thinking, technical expertise, and effective communication skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years delivering Salesforce projects in leading roles.
• 7+ years in IT roles, with experience in architecture.
• Salesforce certifications: Admin, Advanced Admin, Platform Builder.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to strategic technology projects.
• Develop architecture solutions based on business needs.
• Guide delivery teams through implementation.

Skills

Salesforce project delivery

Communication of technical concepts

Mentorship and coaching

Critical thinking

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Salesforce Sales/Service Cloud

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Salesforce Experience Cloud

AWS

Job description

Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, Lorvin Technologies, is seeking the following. Apply via Dice today!

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Contribute to the success of business initiatives and significantly influence the strategic direction of technology projects
• Enhance overall business efficiency and effectiveness
• Ensure consistency and coherence across the Bank's technology landscape

What You Can Expect

• Business Domain Needs Analysis: Develop an understanding of relevant business functions and associated challenges, translate complex business requirements into technical solutions.
• Solution Development: Propose architecture solutions to solve business needs, considering factors like cost, performance, scalability and reuse, operational efficiency and security in alignment with enterprise technology strategy and architectures, and documented patterns and standards.
• Proof of Concept Development: Build prototypes and proof‑of‑concepts to validate solution feasibility.
• Technology Selection: Work with business and technology stakeholders, technology vendors and implementation partners to ensure that technologies are selected, designed and implemented in alignment with Bank policies, standards, and enterprise architectures.
• Documentation and Knowledge Transfer: Create architecture documentation that successfully describes a proposed solution, effectively communicate the solution to all stakeholders.
• Technology Governance: Participate in technology governance processes, present proposed solutions to and gain approval by the Architecture Review Board (ARB). Act as technical approver as part of the Change Approval Board (CAB).
• Solution Implementation Oversight: Guide delivery teams during implementation, ensuring alignment with the approved architecture.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to communicate technical concepts and address concerns.
• Mentorship and Coaching: Provide mentoring and guidance to delivery team members and Architecture teammates on business domain knowledge as well as technical topics.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
• 5+ years of experience in a leading role delivering Salesforce projects using Sales/Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Experience Cloud
• 7+ years of experience in information technology roles, with 1-3 years experience in architecture roles (enterprise or solution architecture)
• Demonstrated ability to communicate the complexities of technical programs
• Experience modeling system diagrams, functional processes and interfaces between systems
• Experience working in a financial institution is desirable
• Experience working in a regulated industry is desirable
• Salesforce certifications: Admin, Advanced Admin, Platform Builder
• AWS certifications are a plus
• TOGAF certification is desirable
• Communication: Excellent oral and written communication, can effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences
• Leadership: Guide technical teams and facilitate decision‑making
• Influencing: Effectively build consensus, successfully motivate others to move forward with a proposed architecture solution
• Technical Expertise: Deep understanding of relevant technologies (cloud computing, databases, networking, software development methodologies, domain driven design, event driven architecture)
• Critical Thinking: Demonstrate strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities, analyzing available facts, evidence, observations and arguments to make sound conclusions and informed choices
• Business Acumen: Thorough knowledge of supported business domains and processes
• Innovation: Generate creative solutions that incorporate emerging technologies and business trends
• Teaming: Work well with teammates across the organization, manage conflict and constructively resolve issues, adapt to and rally personnel around change
• Interpersonal: Strength in rapport‑building, listening and questioning
• Self‑Direction: Highly self‑motivated, adept at managing own time and workloads, effectively prioritizes and executes on work, sets appropriate boundaries around role, actively negotiates with multiple stakeholders to adjust workload, works independently with minimal supervision, takes ownership of tasks and responsibilities