Salesforce Architect 🔥
We are hiring a Salesforce Marketing Cloud Architect who will be responsible for delivering high quality technical work, including setup, code, configuration, and validation, to enable a large-scale, complex implementation of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud. The person in this role MUST have extensive Marketing Cloud development and implementation experience, and be able to confidently design & enable complexities beyond a simple CRM connection - for example, multi-org connections, conflicting visibility requirements when connecting to a Salesforce CRM system, roles, sharing & visibility in CRM and their effects on marketing, migration from other marketing systems, etc.
Responsibilities:
- The role is comprised of two main elements: technical design & development, in collaboration with the lead technical architect and functional/business team members, and completion of configuration and development efforts in a timely and effective manner, while working with other US-based and offshore development team members.
- This implementation of the Marketing Cloud will be completed in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with multiple stakeholders, an international virtual team, and a tight series of deadlines; this role must be collaborative, a self-starter and team player, who can help drive the team to succeed and who is willing to pitch in wherever necessary to help the team get to done.
- Attend daily Agile standups and provide concise updates regarding completed effort and any blockers or concerns
- Quickly come up to speed on a large and complex multinational Salesforce CRM implementation, to best advise on Marketing Cloud design & setup needs
- Complete setup of environment, connection to CRM, configuration of business units & other critical Marketing Cloud functionality, development **in both the CRM and the Marketing systems** to enable required business outcome
- Join selected meetings with business users to understand requirements
- Interface with other technical teams, information security, to clearly and articulately present technical designs for review and approval
- Interface with US-based and offshore team members, with clean handoffs of code & other responsibilities, to ensure effective development
- Document architectural designs
- Salesforce enterprise-scale architectural design and application delivery;
- Established SDLC methodologies including agile, scrum;
- Robust analytical thinking skills with the ability to identify, debug and resolve technical issues;
- Architectural domain knowledge including cloud application architecture and container-based deployment;
- Business acumen that can interpret and translate goals into technical specifications, delivering thought leadership of specific technologies and driving technology change;
- Business knowledge and interpersonal skills to build, maintain and influence relationships with key stakeholders.
- Collaborating with other Architects and Developers to provide technical design guidance to align with firm strategy and applicable technical standards;
- Working independently to evaluate and make strategic decisions that will address specific technology design needs;
- Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams in resolving complex technical issues; providing design guidance that follows the enterprise architecture vision and adheres to applicable application technology guidelines; and mitigating the impact of technical design to security, performance and data privacy;
- Participating in application solutions including assisting with planning and architectural design, hands-on development, resolution of technical issues
- 5+ years’ experience in software development life cycle
- 5+ year experience in Salesforce development and implementing Marketing systems
- 3+ years’ experience with Exact Target/Salesforce Marketing Cloud
- Salesforce Administrator certification, Salesforce Developer Certification, and Marketing Cloud Consultant certification
- Ability to work with a large project (experience required) and excellent communication skills are required in order to work well with the business and team.
- Knowledge of Salesforce execution flow, governor limits, design limitations;
- Experience with design & hands-on coding of Cloud Pages and AMPscipt;
- Knowledge or exposure to Marketing Cloud Connect Integration;
- Experience working with Multiple Business Units in Marketing Cloud;
- Deep understanding of Salesforce security;
- Experience with Salesforce REST APIs and Postman;
- Expert level understanding of the Salesforce Sales and Marketing Cloud solutions, as well as the Force.com Platform;
- Experience with Salesforce Development and general salesforce components such as objects, fields, workflow rules, field updates, process builder, apex classes, triggers, test classes, etc;
- Must be strong in various Marketing Cloud areas - Email Studio, Automation Studio, Mobile Studio, Journey Builder, MC Connect, Audience Builder, Data Extensions, etc.;
- Familiarity with integrations using Marketing Cloud API
Interested applicants may click the apply button or you may call us at (248) 936-0627 for faster processing. Thank you.