Salesforce Technical Architect

Bridgenext is a digital consulting services leader that helps clients innovate with intention and realize their digital aspirations by creating digital products, experiences, and solutions around what real people need. Our global consulting and delivery teams facilitate highly strategic digital initiatives through digital product engineering, automation, data engineering, and infrastructure modernization services, while elevating brands through digital experience, creative content, and customer data analytics services.

Don't just work, thrive. At Bridgenext, you have an opportunity to make a real difference - driving tangible business value for clients, while simultaneously propelling your own career growth. Our flexible and inclusive work culture provides you with the autonomy, resources, and opportunities to succeed. 

Technical Architects are the champions of technical quality and experts when it comes to platform knowledge. You listen to and collaborate with a client on their vision, know how to achieve that vision with the right combination of people, process, and technology, and can execute your ideas with thoughtful purpose and leadership. You must love learning new things and assimilating new technologies into your solutions.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Stay current on technology changes and remain a subject matter expert on best practices for Salesforce development, including packaging strategies, AppExchange security review requirements, Salesforce DX, and OEM / Trialforce

• Part of your time will be spent keeping up to date on the latest Salesforce technologies like AgentForce, Data 360 (Data Cloud), Platform Events, LWC, CRM Analytics, Platform Cache, and Shield

• Design and develop software solutions to fulfill client needs, that are secure, scalable, and maintainable

• Collaborate with business users/clients to understand their business objectives and serve as a subject matter expert on the Salesforce platform and ISV ecosystem

• Lead all members of a project in implementing your design architecture, including review of development artifacts to ensure the solution adheres to best practices

• Design the object model adhering to business processes, sharing model, reporting needs, and integrations

• Make expert choices on architectural design, such as when to use person accounts vs. standard account-contact relationships and when to use master-detail vs. lookup relationships

• Provide a delivery framework that ensures quality and success. Review the code written by the developer and make sure that it follows best practices and scales well

• Assist the sales team to design and estimate solution costs for clients

• Provide "Level of Effort" (LOE) estimates including a project timeline and the right team role mix

• Analyze customer’s product or development process to identify problems and formulate software engineering solutions

• Utilize Apex enterprise patterns for maximum scalability and least risk of performance constraints of the Salesforce platform

• Configure OAuth and SSO integrations between Salesforce and customer products

• Review technical architecture designs from other Technical Architects and provide validation and feedback

• Practice good development life cycle, including solid coding patterns, use of source control, proper use of test methods, and self-testing work

• Be responsive to requests from project members and management

Workplace: Remote, East Coast USA or Canada

Must Have Skills:

• Expert with all major Salesforce technologies including Licensing models, Declarative configuration (flow, workflow), Platform security features, Enterprise Apex Patterns, SOQL & SOSL, all APIs and common integration patterns, Object modeling, SSO/OAuth technologies and flows, Reporting/Analytics Cloud, Integration with JavaScript frameworks, Experience Cloud, and mobile platforms and deployment patterns

• Fantastic listening, verbal, and written communication skills.

• 4+ years coding in LWC/Apex/VF/Aura, 5+ years with other OOP platforms (preference to cloud deployments)

• 7+ years Salesforce platform experience,5+ years in a lead design / architecture role

• Salesforce Certified Developer and Platform Developer 2 required (or Platform Developer 2 and 1 or more Designer certification required)

• Solid experience with JavaScript and CSS

• SQL experience on more than one major database platform

• Javascript toolkits: Angular, React, jQuery, etc

• Strong understanding of architectural design patterns including SOA, SOC, layering, DRY, object-oriented design patterns, common integration patterns, etc

• Expert use of VSCode, IntelliJ Illuminated Cloud or comparable IDE.

Preferred Skills:

• Salesforce Certified Technical Architect certification
• Salesforce Certified Application and System Architect certification
• While ISV / PDO experience is valued, SI / Enterprise architectural experience is acceptable
• Proficiency with Salesforce Data Cloud, including data ingestion, harmonization, and activation
• Familiarity with Einstein GPT and generative AI use cases in Salesforce
• Knowledge of Salesforce Well-Architected Framework and its pillars
• Experience with Event-Driven Architecture using Platform Events and CDC.

Professional Skills:

• Solid written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Strong team and individual player
• Maintains composure during all types of situations and is collaborative by nature
• High standards of professionalism, consistently producing high quality results
• Self-sufficient, independent requiring very little supervision or intervention
• Demonstrate flexibility and openness to bring creative solutions to address issues
   

Bridgenext is an Equal Opportunity Employer

US citizens and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply

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