Salesforce Architect - Govt Project

Position: Salesforce Architect

Duration: Multi-Year ( 12+ months )

• Must be able to obtain a US Government Secret Clearance
• Must sit in Ashburn, VA 1x / week

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled Salesforce Architect to join our team supporting the Custom Border Patrol. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Service Cloud, enterprise architecture, and Salesforce implementation. You will be responsible for leading the conceptual and logical architectures, implementing and managing Salesforce solutions, and effectively designing solutions using both custom and out-of-the-box (OOB) features in Salesforce.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the enterprise architecture for conceptual and logical architectures to support Salesforce implementations.
• Design, implement, and manage Salesforce solutions, ensuring they meet business requirements and are scalable.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements, and translate them into technical solutions.
• Design solutions using both custom development and out-of-the-box (OOB) features in Salesforce.
• Expert level experience using Salesforce to configure, code, and support integrations using any of the following: Salesforce process automation and workflow rules, Apex programming, batch jobs, sharing and security, Lightning component framework, reports/dashboards, Salesforce CI/CD capabilities, SSO, OAuth, and OIDC
• Experience working in an automated development environment, using CI/CD tools such as GitLab / GitHub, Bamboo, Jenkins, SonarQube
• Experience developing against relational databases (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL) as well as SOQL in Salesforce
• Comfortable with command line and scripting (Bash preferred)
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring best practices and standards are followed.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure the quality of the delivered solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to Salesforce implementations.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest Salesforce features and updates, and recommend improvements to existing solutions.
• Responsible for overall design, architecture, and end-to-end of the implementation of Salesforce applications
• Hands-on coding experience, with a willingness to work with developers to resolve problems and provide mentorship
• Design solutions with Client-Side Scripting such as JavaScript
• Ability to implement and manage Salesforce implementations with a public domain/certificate management/single sign on/SP & IDP implementation experience

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Salesforce Solution Architect, with a focus on Service Cloud.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles and best practices.
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing Salesforce solutions.
• Proficiency in using both custom development and out-of-the-box (OOB) features in Salesforce.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with government agencies or in a similar environment.
• Knowledge of security and compliance requirements for government agencies.
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies.
• Experience with data migration to include integration, data cleansing, and import/export of large volumes of data

Nice to haves:

• Design/Architecture of other programming languages such as Java/J2EE is preferred.

Salesforce Experience Cloud (Site/Communities) experience

• Experience with Salesforce DX and Visualforce
• Experience developing Java-based services
• Experience utilizing ConnectedApps for security integration with other enterprise components.
• Experience with NamedCredentials, REST APIs, API security, and FFLIB libraries