Salesforce Solutions Architect
Minimum requirements:
- Bcom (Information Technology) or Equivalent NQF 7 qualification
- Salesforce Platform Developer I certification
- Working towards a Salesforce Application Architect certification
- 5+ years of Banking Platform experience of which 1 years 6 months is working on Salesforce platforms as a minimum
- Direct experience working on CRM projects for middle market and enterprise size companies.
- Software engineering skills with Force.com Platform (Apex, LWC, SOQL, Unit Testing)
- Demonstrated experience and knowledge of relational databases, data modelling, and ETL tools ๏ปฟ
Responsibilities:
- Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front
- End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions
- Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process
- Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and
- proposed solutions
- Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment
- Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
- Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
- Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
- Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / Azure Devops or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
- Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage e.g.
- aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc.
- Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
- Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
- Work with guilds and other technical SMEs to improve and evolve technical products and services
- Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock,
- hoverfly etc.)
- Apply version control and related concepts and techniques
- Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines
- Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing,
- integration etc.
- Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
- Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.
- Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization
- Coach & mentor other engineers
- Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
- Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization
- Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team
- Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)
- Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
- Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
- Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals)
- Participate in incident manag