Salesforce Technical Architect - Senior Manager

Huron•Chicago, IL

2d•$198,000 - $228,000

About The Position

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future. Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. The Salesforce Technical Architect will be responsible for designing project solutions with different clouds on the Salesforce platform (e.g. Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, App Cloud, Agentforce) in relevant Industries: Education, Healthcare, Construction or Manufacturing and Industrials. In this capacity the Technical Solution Architect will have an expert understanding of Salesforce.com standard applications, web application development, Salesforce integration, and tools such as the Salesforce APIs, Apex, Lightning, the AppExchange and relevant Industry AI solutions that are used to extend the standard product set. Candidate must be able to lead technical requirements gathering sessions, write requirements, technical architecture documents and manage integration tasks. They also must have a solid business understanding and be able to translate business process flows into technical use cases.

Requirements

5- 7 years of consulting experience
5-7 years’ experience with Salesforce.com
5-7 years' experience in analyzing requirements, writing functional specifications, conducting tests, troubleshooting issues and interfacing with business users
Huron requires a Bachelor’s Degree in a field related to this position or equivalent work experience
Prior team management experience, experience managing people (mentoring, delegating, reviewing work, and coaching staff)
Experience in pre-sales activities, proposal development, presentations, and Demo's
Willingness to attend and present at orals
5 or more years of experience managing external client projects in positions
Familiarity with Force.com platform technical limitations and common technical design patterns, integration patterns and business application development patterns
Proven ability to design and optimize business processes and to integrate business processes across disparate systems
Experience with Enterprise Integration tools.
Demonstrated deployments of enterprise software systems using industry standard environments including XML, HTTP/HTTPS, Java, C++, and ASP.

Nice To Haves

Salesforce.com Application Architect, Certified Systems Architect or Technical Architect
Sales Cloud or Service Cloud certifications are a plus
Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related IT discipline

Responsibilities

Design and document an end-to-end Salesforce solution to include: leading technical architecture workshops with Enterprise Architects, Information Security Architects, Integration Architects, Data Architects from client teams, and leading technical requirements gathering sessions and writing technical requirements documents.
Leading technical design sessions and writing technical design documents
Managing the technical delivery of integrations and custom extensions
Managing technical scope and client expectation
Designing and managing the execution of test plans and ensuring a quality solution is delivered.
Ability to work with developers US-Based and Offshore
Effectively work with Project Managers, Customers, Development Leads and the Account Managers
Educate Customer as a Salesforce.com Evangelist