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This is a definite contract to hire for a major financial firm
Manager Notes:
Candidate will be utilized in multiple areas:
- Agency Services: We sourced for this area earlier this year they work on a lot of solutioning and coding in Apex.
- AgentSync Implementation
- Integrations Focus:
- MuleSoft
- Kafka
- Integrating with Data Clouds; Snowflake
- Life & Annuity Experience - PLUS
Soft Skills: This candidate will be a mentor to the Development Team; guiding on best practices in Salesforce, SecOps processes, and coding practices.
Communication: Candidate will be collaborating with resources at different levels so they must have great communications skills, a calm demeanor, and the ability to hold good professional composure.
We are seeking a talented Solution Architect to join our Enterprise Applications team, with a primary focus on our Life and Annuity Agent-related systems including the recently implemented AgentSync solution within our core Salesforce instance. This role is central to driving technical strategy, integration, and long-term architecture supporting agent onboarding, customer service, and the broader agent ecosystem.
Day to Day:
- Provide end-to-end solution architecture leadership for Life and Annuity Agent systems, with a special emphasis on Salesforce (including AgentSync, AgentForce, Data Cloud and related integrations).
- Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Managers, and Principal Architects to advance the product line from current to target state in alignment with business and technology strategy.
- Design and document sustainable integration patterns, leveraging modern, event-driven architecture and robust data strategies.
- Mentor and guide Systems Architects and Analysts, promoting architectural best practices and technical excellence.
- Lead architectural decisions for major initiatives such as system integrations, platform enhancements, and agent onboarding modernization.
- Collaborate on cost-benefit analyses, technical documentation, and project plans.
- Maintain solution quality and integrity through proactive review, testing, and adherence to security standards.
Technical Skills:
- Salesforce Platform Expertise
- Proven record in Salesforce development and administration, with deep understanding of the Salesforce object model, configuration vs. code focus, Platform Events, Change Data Capture (CDC), and agent-centric tools (e.g., AgentForce, AgentSync).
- Strong focus on Salesforce integration architecture, including use of APIs, middleware, and Salesforce Data Cloud is a plus.
- Integration Patterns & Event Driven Design
- Hands-on experience designing and deploying event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka, Confluent Platform, Managed Connectors).
- Expertise in integrating enterprise systems using streaming/event-based architectures.
- Data Integration & Transformation
- Strong grasp of data integration strategies, tooling, and security (SQL, MuleSoft, CDC; streaming ingestion into Data Lake platforms like Snowflake or Azure).
- Knowledge of data quality, data transformation, and API management at scale.
- Understanding of Data Lake concepts and analytics platforms (Snowflake, Azure, etc.) and their role in enterprise architecture.
- REST API
- Architectural experience with secure RESTful API design, implementation, and consumption.
- DevSecOps & Cloud
- Familiar with DevSecOps practices in Azure DevOps (CI/CD pipelines), automated testing, and modern deployment tooling (AWS, Azure).
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- 12+ years IT architecture and software engineering experience, including delivery of complex, multi-system solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive technical decisions in a matrixed environment.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- Experience implementing or supporting AgentSync.
- Certifications in Salesforce architecture or integration platforms- Insurance industry credentials.