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Salesforce Technical Architect

Employer
Cognizant
Location
Singapore, Singapore
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Oct 21, 2024
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Job Function
Other
Industry Sector
Finance - General
Employment Type
Full Time
Education
Bachelors
Job Summary

The Lead Salesforce Architect role will be responsible for building and mentorship of a multi-skilled Salesforce team as well as design and implementing Salesforce solutions for our customers that follow best practices in both IT and Salesforce projects.

Responsibilities
  • Manage robust teams of Salesforce.com delivery team members, including BAs, Tech Leads, Architects, Developers & QA
  • Perform project and program management activities, including project financials.
  • Liaise and manage collaboration between horizontals to bring in synergies and ensure successful delivery
  • Take accountability of delivery of work packages to customer facing project teams, ensuring packages are delivered on time and with quality
  • Ensure for all projects, each Apex method developed has an equivalent test method with at least one valid unit test (using an assertion)
  • Ensure total test coverage within QA and higher environments is at least 85%
  • Ensure all code is peer-reviewed against Cognizant development standards prior to deployment to QA
  • Maintain and publish Salesforce development standards to broader technical teams on a quarterly basis
  • Ensure developers are incorporating code review feedback prior to deployment to QA. Enforce the practice with regular training & project audits.
  • Ensure version control has been correctly setup at the beginning of the project
  • Ensure all developers are using version control as the source of truth for development
  • Be an active part of the COE, owing technical & solution reviews for all projects on a regular basis
  • Reporting to internal senior management or Leadership teams on the overall engagement (across different dimensions like delivery, bid management, staffing, financials etc.
  • Ability to understand pain areas of business and present workable solutions
  • Acts as the escalation point when issues arise and understand what to do and who to work with to resolve them.
  • Ability to stay focused in a fast-paced, high-energy, challenging environment where there are multiple competing priorities on a daily basis.
  • Work closely with business analysts, architects, developers, testers and a variety of IT and business stakeholders.
  • Keeping up to date with Salesforce releases and new functionality.
  • Adhere to company and project standards and guidelines.
  • Accurate time management and reporting of own work.
  • Quality, on time delivery of agreed deliverables.
  • Ability to work on multiple applications/ projects/ BAU enhancement simultaneously and must have a "can do" attitude.
  • Grow the maturity of our practice by leading internal initiatives to further develop methodology, tooling, and skillsets. This includes owning our Architect & CTA Academy, enable CICD & version control for all projects
  • Define & enable development plan for TL's to make them into strong TA's
  • Help drive bootcamp for developers and enforce best practices in all our developers
Requirements
  • Extensive years of experience in handling large delivery engagements with a strong experience in managing SFDC programs
  • Deep knowledge and expertise across the Salesforce.com platform (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, etc.), including experience delivering complex SFDC solutions
  • Has delivered multiple full end-to-end Salesforce.com implementations/projects, especially including highly integrated/complex ecosystems. Understands how to deliver capabilities on Salesforce AppExchange products
  • Strong program management and problem-solving skills
  • Should have excellent presentation and written communications skills
  • Strong Exposure to SDLC and Agile methodologies
  • Exceptionally strong in scope management
  • Has ownership for key projects' timelines, deliverables, budget and metrics
  • Proven ability to efficiently manage a portfolio and drive operational improvements
  • Should be flexible in time and attitude
  • Works independently to manage the whole program and respective stakeholders/ and projects
  • Hands on experience with setting up branching strategy, version control & CICD
Qualifications
  • Platform Developer I (mandatory)
  • Platform Developer II (desirable)
  • Salesforce Application Architect (mandatory)
  • Salesforce System Architect (desirable)
  • Integration Architecture certified (desirable)
  • TOGAF Certified (desirable)
  • Project Management or Delivery focused certification (mandatory)

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