About the position
The Technical Application Architect is responsible for evaluating an organization's business needs and determining how IT can support those needs leveraging software like Azure, and Salesforce. Aligning IT strategies with business goals has become paramount, and a Solutions Architect can help determine, develop, and improve technical solutions in support of business goals. The Technical Application Architect also bridges communication between IT and business operations to ensure everyone is aligned in developing and implementing technical solutions for business problems. The process requires regular feedback, adjustments, and problem solving in order to properly design and implement potential solutions. To be successful as a Technical Application Architect, you should have excellent technical, analytical, and project management skills.
Responsibilities
- Meet with clients to understand their needs and determine gaps between those needs and technical functionality.
- Communicate with key stakeholders across different stages of the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Work on creating the high-level design and lead architectural decisions.
- Interact with clients to create end-to-end specifications for Azure & Salesforce cloud solutions.
- Provide clarification and answer any questions regarding the solution architecture.
- Lead the development of custom enterprise solutions.
- Responsible for application architecture, ensuring high performance, scalability, and availability for those applications.
- Responsible for overall data architecture, modeling, and related standards enforced throughout the enterprise ecosystem including data, master data, and metadata, processes, governance, and change control.
- Unify the data architecture used within all applications and identify appropriate systems of record, reference, and management.
- Share engagement experience with the internal audiences and enrich collective IP.
- Conduct architecture workshops and other enablement sessions.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in software or solution architecture disciplines
- Minimum of 5 years of experience with public cloud computing ecosystems such as Azure, Google Cloud, or Amazon Web Services
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Azure Data platforms (Logic apps, Service bus, Databricks, Data Factory, Azure integration services)
- CI/CD, version-controlling experience using Azure Devops
- Python Programming
- Knowledge of both traditional and modern data architecture and processing concepts, including relational databases, data warehousing, and business analytics (e.g., NoSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Hadoop, Spark, Knime)
- Proficiency in both high-level and low-level designing to build an architect using customization or configuration on Salesforce Service cloud, Field Service lightning, APEX, Visual Force, Lightning, Community
- Expertise in designing and building real-time/batch integrations between Salesforce and other systems
- Design Apex and Lightning framework including Lightning Pattern, Error logging framework etc.
Benefits
- Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience.
