Lead Salesforce Solutions Architect

Job Description:

• Designing and putting in place secure, robust and scalable technical architectures and Salesforce solutions while working with multiple stakeholders. Leading design workshops to understand business process, recommend and design a Salesforce solution that suits the client needs.
• Create and manage the breakdown of Salesforce solutions into user stories and requirements, estimate each requirement, map dependencies and work with a project manager to build project plans.
• Ensure technical quality and good Salesforce solution design principles are followed by leveraging your deep technical expertise to advise on architectural and technical development. 
• Lead a delivery team and work with a project manager to ensure the implementation of agreed Salesforce solution and infrastructure.
• Allocation of project tasks to the development team, ensuring tickets provide the sufficient technical detail required for developers to follow.
• Support project managers with the relevant information to create documentation for projects including Project Plan, Gantt Chart, Status Reports, Risk Logs etc
• Monitor and assist delivery of development tasks.
• Performing code review to ensure quality and best practice standards are met
• Managing pipelines for CI/CD
• Managing the testing of the Salesforce solution, provide input to test scripts and triage bugs found on the platform.
• Management of change from a technical perspective to support project delivery, within budget, scope, quality and time.
• Documenting best practices and operational procedures
• Acting as a role model and advising customers on architectural and technical development best practices during workshops and during the project.
• Manage the handover of the project with customers and other internal teams.
• Collaborating with clients and project teams from a Technical perspective for Salesforce solutions across a range of industries.
• Line management of a technical team including Technical Leads and Developers, providing coaching, feedback and support to help them achieve their career goals and grow within the organisation. 
• Foster a positive, collaborative and high-performance team culture, focusing on continuous improvement and professional development.   

Desired Skills:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience leading and designing Salesforce Solutions on multiple Salesforce projects.
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
• Strong background in Salesforce platforms, including Salesforce Cloud solutions (Sales, Service, Marketing, etc.), with in-depth knowledge of Salesforce project delivery methodologies.
• Significant experience leading project teams to deliver Salesforce projects using various project and program management methodologies in a variety of environments.
• Experience designing custom functionality using LWC, Aura, triggers, different custom jobs, flows, data migrations and good understanding of Salesforce best practices.
• Experience designing different types of integrations between Salesforce and other systems for example integrations using Salesforce APIs, outgoing integrations, web services, Salesforce Connect, Mulesoft and middleware solutions.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of working with Salesforce.com using out of the box Salesforce functionality.
• Leading development team throughout the software development lifecycle, managing setting up deployment processes and tools.
• Excellent leadership and management skills with hands-on experience of managing and coaching technical teams in a leadership role.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Multiple Salesforce certifications preferred.

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Location:

Dublin

Brand:

Merkle

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent