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General Summary:
The Salesforce Architect is responsible for developing, defining, and leading technical roadmaps to cover enterprise, solution, and system architecture needs to enable desired capabilities within the Salesforce platform. This role works in partnership with the IT team to support strategic initiatives by defining and building architecture and integration patterns, ensuring solutions are built with performance, scalability, and resiliency.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Establishes operational plans for the Business Applications team
- Develops and implements new products, processes, standards, and/or operational plans that will have an impact on the achievement of functional results
- Provides support to the IT team, with a high attention to detail
- May require communication with ConnectWise leadership
- Serves as the technical champion and advocate for all optimizing solutions required to meet business goals
- Leads the design of technical landscapes for sales cloud, service cloud, B2B, and other related technologies
- Performs fit-gap analysis of business requirements to system functionality and recommends customization and/or new technologies, factoring in cost, value, and adoption curves
- Works with stakeholders and technical resources to identify migration paths from current architecture to target architecture
- Documents current and future state processes and develops technical specifications for projects and enhancements
- Creates detailed technical and functional documentation by outlining the design and scope of solutions, including diagrams of proposed solutions, data models, integration patterns, and interface contracts
- Develops and maintains best practice policies regarding security, privacy, performance, license compliance, and governance of Salesforce data and applications
- Updates and maintains Salesforce architecture documentation
- Identifies and reports on performance and data trends and recommends solutions to prevent potential issues proactively
- Drives the adoption of architectural patterns, design policies, code quality, and performance requirements cross-functionally
- Stays current on the Salesforce platform and adjacent technologies to drive new, innovative, and valueadding feature sets
- Oversees technical specifications, ensuring adherence to the proposed platform architecture and technical design
- Designs seamless integration between back-office business application solutions
- Aids end user application support and release management as needed, including troubleshooting, managing support tickets, testing solutions, migration, refreshes, and version control and deployment
Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities Required:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Ability to manage large projects and processes independently with limited supervision
- Recognized expert in applicable work area
- Ability to situationally adapt and understand new technology/processes as per business requirement
- Strong ability to work constructively and independently under stress and pressure in a fast paced, multitasking environment
- Ability to manage competing priorities while producing high quality work
- Strong organization and time-management skills with the ability to meet reasonable deadlines
- Ability to interact positively and openly with colleagues and external business contacts, with strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong ability to influence, collaborate, and build relationships with key stakeholders, vendors, and crossfunctional teams
- Expert knowledge of Salesforce, best practices, and functionality
- Strong web development skills
- Advanced ability to successfully drive projects to completion
- Ability to understand, articulate, communicate complex requirements to technical and non-technical audiences
- Preferred: Strong skills in JSON, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript scripting languages, DHTML, SOAP, AJAX, or similar software
Educational/Vocational/Previous Experience Recommendations:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent business experience
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Experience supporting a complex environment within the Salesforce ecosystem
- Experience in digital experience management and cross-channel customer journeys in the context of Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, FinancialForce, and B2B commerce
- Salesforce Advanced Administrator, Advanced Developer, and Service Cloud Consultant certifications
- Preferred: Experience as Salesforce Architect or similar role
- Preferred: CPQ Specialist, Cloud Consultant, B2B Solution Architect, or related Salesforce certification
Working Conditions:
- Onsite/Hybrid/Remote depending on location
- 0-10% travel may be required
ConnectWise is an Equal Opportunity Employer, dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. ConnectWise provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military/veteran status, marital status, familial or parental status, or any other characteristic or status protected by applicable federal, state and local laws.
The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this job. Other duties may be assigned as needed. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please contact us at talentacquisition@connectwise.com or 1-800-671-6898.