Salesforce Technical Architect - B2B Commerce

Job Title: Salesforce Technical Architect - B2B Commerce

Location: USA - Remote

Contract Duration: 12 Months +

Position Overview:

We are seeking a motivated and experienced Salesforce B2B Commerce Cloud Architect who will be responsible for leading and supporting technical teams in architecting, building, and deploying customized eCommerce solutions for clients. This role involves understanding client requirements, facilitating workshops, and implementing best practices in Salesforce Commerce architecture. The architect will also communicate effectively with clients about platform capabilities and limitations, ensuring successful project delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with client stakeholders to define requirements, deliverables, and set and manage expectations
• Translate business requirements into well-architected solutions that best leverage the Salesforce platform
• Lead technical design sessions; architect and document technical solutions aligned with client business objectives; Identify gaps between client's current and desired end states
• Provide oversight and governance of Salesforce projects
• Follow and help define coding standards. Lead code reviews during projects to ensure quality and appropriate design patterns are followed
• Manage the technical delivery of custom development, integrations, and data migration elements of a Salesforce implementation
• Maintain a target billable utilization aligned to the role
• Ability to understand a project and deep dive to debug issues
• From time-to-time, the TA may be expected to partake in other pre-sales activities such as discovery and technical deep-dive sessions, Proof-Of-Concept (POC) development with prospects
• Liaise with Salesforce product teams to support client implementations

Requirements:

• Degree or equivalent proven experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core proficiencies for the
  role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
• 9-14 years CRM experience with a minimum of 6 years on the Salesforce platform
• Expert level understanding of the Salesforce product suite, including B2B commerce on core, Sales, Service, Community, Marketing, and Community Clouds
• Understanding of B2B sales processes, customer journeys, and e-commerce best practices.
• Knowledge of data integration tools and experience integrating Salesforce with different business systems (ETL, ESB, marketing automation, reporting, etc.)
• Understanding of B2B Commerce Einstein Features & Capabilities
• Understanding B2B Commerce Extensions framework
• Understanding on B2B Commerce APIs and Connect APIs
• Understanding of cross cloud use cases ( B2B, D2C, Loyalty, Revenue, Marketing)
• Understanding of Salesforce OMS
• Understanding of systems architecture and ability to design scalable performance-driven solutions
• Understanding of key design patterns and large data volume limitations and best practices
• Understanding of data sharing and visibility considerations and how these play into platform architecture
• Familiarity with platform authentication patterns (SAML, SSO, OAuth)
• Knowledge of data integration tools and experience integrating Salesforce with different business systems (ETL, CPQ, marketing automation, reporting, etc.)
• Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies
• Experience with platform security capabilities (TLS, SSL)
• Expert level experience defining the system architecture landscape, identifying gaps between current and desired end-states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will enable achievement of the desired business outcomes
• Strong background in design/development of large web-based systems, or complete software product lifecycle exposure
• Active Salesforce certifications or ability to achieve relevant certifications upon hire