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IMPORTANT REQUIREMENT: Title: Salesforce Architect | REMOTE | Client: University of WI | USC & GC ONLY

Title: Salesforce Architect

Location: Remote

Visa:  USC/GC Only

MOI: Skype

Client: University of WI

Key Responsibilities:

•              Design and develop scalable and efficient architecture solutions for Salesforce and other affiliated solutions for Sales, Service, and platform needs.

•              Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their vision, strategy, and requirements.

•              Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, including user story writing, defining success criteria, and documenting testing steps.

•              Troubleshoot issues and provide timely resolutions.

•              Supervise the configuration, quality assurance, testing, and deployment of Salesforce solutions.

•              Conduct regular reviews of existing systems and make recommendations for improvements.

•              Document architectural designs and standards for future reference.

•              Plan and collaborate on projects and workstreams.

•              Work closely with development teams to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain the Java platform.

•              Provide technical leadership for application architecture, technical design, programming, and software development methodology.

•              Collaborate with web developers to develop internal tools and platforms for the build process.

•              Ensure application security, performance, and scalability.

•              Lead the continuous integration and continuous delivery process.

•              Develop and document best practices for team collaboration, estimating, productivity, software architecture, technical design, and documentation.

Required Qualifications:

•              At least 5-8 years of experience as a Salesforce developer, preferably in Salesforce CRM.

•              Proven experience as a Salesforce IT Architect with expertise in Salesforce development and architecture.

•              Proficiency in Java and related technologies

•              Experience in the financial products and services industry.

•              Familiarity with DevOps practices and working with GitHub pipelines.

•              Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

•              Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically.

•              Ability to work collaboratively with various teams and stakeholders.

•              Experience working in a fast-paced environment.

•              Salesforce solution design experience.

•              Skilled in Core Salesforce cloud configuration and customization (Sales, Service, Marketing, Experience), declarative and programmatic Salesforce tooling, and integrating with 3rd party systems.

•              Experience with various architecture patterns (e.g., Monolithic, Microservices, SOA, Data Driven, Event Driven, Onion/Clean/Hexagonal).

•              Proficient in integration patterns using REST API, SFTP, Kafka/Solace.

•              Exposure in Microservices tech stack like including Java, Spring Boot, Spring frameworks, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift

•              Knowledge of cloud products/services, Kubernetes, and preferably Google Cloud Platform.

•              Familiarity in other technologies like JSON/REST API

Preferred Qualifications:

•              Advanced certifications in Salesforce.

•              Design experience.

•              Familiarity with messaging tools such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.

•              Familiarity with Java / OpenShift.

•              Experience with test automation tools like Selenium or Playwright

•              Experience with other relevant technologies and platforms.

•              Master’s degree in a related field.

•              Prior experience an IT architect

Salesforce certifications such as:

•              Administrator

•              Sales Cloud Consultant

•              Service Cloud Consultant

•              Platform App Builder

Typical portfolio or solutions architect certifications such as:

•              TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework)

•              AWS Certified Solutions Architect

•              Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

•              Google Professional Cloud Architect