Salesforce Technical Architect - IT

MindGen Solutions is a recruitment firm and specializes in hiring managerial and leadership talents across technologies and domains.

We have an opportunity for a Salesforce Technical Architect for one of our MNC client, which provides IT Services and is one of the world's largest consulting, outsourcing and professional services company.

Job Description:

Position: Salesforce Technical Architect

Experience Level 3-4 years relevant salesforce experience

Roles & Responsibilities Roles: Client Facing Role with multiple facets.

- Technical Design and Delivery of Salesforce.com applications

- Technical thought leader for the salesforce practice

- In collaboration with the functional team, blueprint the technical design for the salesforce application considering all the functional, technical, non functional and integration needs of the application

- Lead responsibility in code development and integration of the application.

- During the build phase, lead the development team in writing application code.

- Responsible for code reviews, performance tuning, and troubleshooting during the project process.

- At the end of the test phase, responsible for delivering a fully working technical solution to the project manager and client.

In addition to the project roles, technical architect is expected to multi task and actively contribute towards:

- Practice and Competency development.

- Support Pursuits by owning the technical pieces of the response.

- Actively participate and contribute towards branding in various forums such as cloudforce, dreamforce by exhibiting strong technical thought leadership

- Create re-usable components to drive down development timelines and improve efficiency, productivity.

Details Skills & Experience (List Primary / Optional / good-to-have skills)

Primary Skill & Experience:

- At least 3 of years of experience in performing the above technical architect role on salesforce.com platform.

- Must have handled a minimum of 10-12 implementations around sales, service cloud for large enterprises that involved significant customizations using the force.com platform.

- Deep and extensive knowledge, experience of force.com technical platform including apex, triggers, batch Apex, Visualforce etc. Knowledge of advanced visualforce components, Chatter API etc.

- Good knowledge of salesforce recommended best practice around design and development.

- Must possess at least Dev 501 certification.

- Extensive experience working in an onsite/offshore model.

- Solid understanding of Object Oriented development and design, experience in using design patterns and ability to right clean, well-refactored maintainable code.

- Deployment using complex enterprise Force.com release management and knowledge of Force.com Metadata API.

- Build integration and interfaces using SFDC Web Services API

Optional:

- SFDC Technical Architect certification.

- Thought leadership activities and participation in the salesforce community - PoVs, Papers, presentation, blogs

- Delivering projects based on Agile/XP methodologies.