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Job Description
Lead the Salesforce team at Davis-Standard, where, reporting to the CIO, you will design platform architecture solutions; manage the development lifecycle; articulate design considerations, trade-offs, benefits, and recommendations for platform architecture across Manufacturing Sales and Service Cloud, Mulesoft and Tableau required, Data Cloud, B2B Commerce, CPQ and Experience Cloud a plus.

Job Description
Lead the Salesforce team at Davis-Standard, where, reporting to the CIO, you will design platform architecture solutions; manage the development lifecycle; articulate design considerations, trade-offs, benefits, and recommendations for platform architecture across Manufacturing Sales and Service Cloud, Mulesoft and Tableau required, Data Cloud, B2B Commerce, CPQ and Experience Cloud a plus.
You are a motivated Salesforce Platform Architect who is passionate about cloud and application architecture in Salesforce applications. You excel at executing the hands-on implementation of proposed solutions and providing technical guidance to teams during the solutions' development and deployment phases. You are a go-getter and love learning new technologies and thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can collaborate with architects and other cloud engineers to deliver infrastructure and design solutions to enable real business process improvement. You are an excellent communicator that can help bring to life business process through shared vision with global stakeholders.
This role is a strategic leader who on a day to day basis will:

• Create, implement, and manage a large, multi-tenant Salesforce environment
• Lead a team of Salesforce software developers and admins
• Contribute to all technical aspects of projects, integrations, and solutions developed on the Salesforce platform
• Work cross-functionally to maintain and improve upon Salesforce integrations & data integrity with different teams and systems to support overall business and data governance processes
• Provide day-to-day Salesforce platform support; lead troubleshooting of production issues related to applications including but not limited to Salesforce, micro-services, and infrastructure/DevOps
• Develop and maintain reporting and dashboard functions
• Work cross-functionally to review processes and identify inefficiencies and opportunities for automation
• Recommend systems solutions by comparing advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives
• Coordinate the rollout of enhancements to the production environment
• Participate in architectural and design discussions with strategic business partners to ensure technical success with Salesforce technologies
• Enforce agile development practices and ensure the quality delivery of enterprise solutions
• Recommend and document leading practices
• Participate in developing, and executing against, the strategic technology vision for the company as a member of the senior IT leadership team.
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience as a Salesforce Solution/Technical Architect in Salesforce
• Salesforce development experience, with multiple implementations with complex back-office scenarios
  

Top Candidates Will Also Have

• Excellent leadership skills with strong communications skills that direct technical resources and inspire confidence in business leaders and process owners
• Strong background in Cloud Computing solutions – cloud computing strategy, systems design, implementation, and management
• Experience converting accounts, opportunities, and assets from acquisitions into organization
• Exposure to CPQ and e-commerce solutions
• Familiarity with multiple implementation standards and methodologies
• Demonstrated knowledge of XML, SQL, HTTP/HTTPS, and EAI processes
• Programming Languages – APEX, Visual Force, Familiarity with ANT and Eclipse tools for working with the IDE
• Ability to achieve and maintain Salesforce Platform Developer I&II, Admin, Advanced Admin, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Technical Architect (Preferably)
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment
• Strong accountability, teamwork mindset
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Machinery Manufacturing

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