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Your Opportunity
About Our Salesforce Practice
Our newly formed Salesforce practice is quickly growing to serve our clients with their digital transformation journeys leveraging the full breadth of the Salesforce platform. We focus on delivering value to our clients and our people by anchoring on measurable outcomes throughout all stages of our engagements. We take a holistic approach to our engagements, collaborating with our broader practices, including Digital Strategy, UX Design, Change Management, Data Engineering, Cyber Security and App Dev to ensure our clients our well served across their people, process and technology needs. We are a team of passionate and experienced Salesforce leaders, architects and consultants looking to expand our team with likeminded practitioners.
BDO Digital is currently seeking an experienced Salesforce Technical Architect to join our growing Salesforce practice. The individual will own the following responsibilities :
- Architecting enterprise-level business solutions and leading team members in design, development, dev ops and quality assurance on Salesforce projects
- Designing and delivering large cross-cloud Salesforce implementations, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Industry Clouds (Data Cloud & Einstein experience is a plus)
- Managing the technical delivery of Salesforce data model design, declarative configuration, custom development, security design, dev ops, integrations, and data migration elements of a Salesforce implementation
- Developing & enforcing technical direction, standards and templates including architectural design blueprints, development best practices, dev ops and documentation standards
- Collaborating with other BDO practices and client technical counterparts to provide guidance on enterprise architecture discussions
- Managing key technical client relationships across delivery programs
- Mentoring and coaching team members to grow their technical skills on the Salesforce platform
- Collaborating with clients and functional teams to understand business requirements and translate to technical designs
- Supporting pre-sales activities and working with prospects to understand business requirements, creating high level designs, driving effort estimations and supporting proposals and client presentations
- Staying informed of the latest Salesforce product releases leading the practice learning & development strategies
How do we define success for your role?
You demonstrate BDO's core values through all aspect of your work : Integrity, Respect and CollaborationYou are people focused with a people-first approach to internal team and client interactionsYou understand your client’s industry, challenges, and opportunities; clients describe you as positive, professional, and delivering high-quality workYou identify, recommend, and are focused on effective service delivery to your clientsYou share in an inclusive and engaging work environment that develops, retains & attracts talentYou actively participate in the adoption of digital tools and strategies to drive an innovative workplaceYou grow your expertise through learning and professional development.Your skills and experience
Minimum 8 years of hands-on Salesforce design and development across core clouds (Sales, Service, Experience and Industry Clouds)Expert in Salesforce configuration and development across declarative configurations, APEX, Visualforce and Lightning Web ComponentsExpert in Salesforce data model design and key design trade-offs (i.e., performance, security etc.)Expert in Salesforce development standards, best practices, dev ops, testing and release strategiesExpert in Salesforce integration patterns, integration to third party systems, data management strategies and data migration processesExpert in Salesforce security design and configurationsExpert in leading complex multi-cloud Salesforce engagementsExperience supporting enterprise architecture discussions beyond Salesforce including security, integration patterns, analytics, data governance and AI enablementExcel at bridging between business and technical audiences and translating business requirements to technical details and vice-versaExperience supporting technical pre-salesPrevious people management experience with strong leadership and mentorship skillsExceptional communication and presentation skills for internal / external purposesAble to adapt quickly to changing client requirementsAbility to build strong relationships with clients, partners and team membersEducation and certifications
Post-secondary education in a relevant discipline (Computer Science, Engineering etc.) preferredSalesforce System and Application Architect certifications preferred