Salesforce Architect

JOB DESCRIPTION

- Lead the Salesforce Development Team in the design and development of Salesforce custom solutions comprising of work in Apex, Visual Force, Salesforce APIs, Lightning, and data migration.
- Oversee the development work of junior developers and ensure the use of best practices in all development efforts.
- Communicate with project managers, clients and other developers to design cohesive project strategies and ensure effective collaboration throughout all phases of development, testing and deployment.
- Maintain a flexible and proactive work environment to facilitate a quick response to changing project requirements and customer objectives, and innovate ways to meet mission goals successfully.
- Interact directly with clients, managers and end users as necessary to analyze project objectives and capability requirements, including specifications for user interfaces, customized applications and interactions with internal Salesforce instances.
- Assist the Support Team with escalated issues arising from support of internal and customer-facing Salesforce environment, especially related to customized applications, user permissions, security settings, custom objects and workflows
- Facilitate solution design sessions and code reviews, advocate Salesforce best practices, recommend alternate approaches and create architectural designs.
- Provide estimates of work effort for new projects and enhancements. Design, code, and test solutions. Analyze and mitigate issues identified during testing.
- Follow an iterative software development methodology and contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle and support.
- Facilitate and actively participate in meetings with representatives from business and/or IT units
- Take accountability for quality of deliverables, provide status on development effort, and deliver on time and as per specifications.