Duration: 1 year
Travel: local and commute 5 days a week onsite to McLean, VA
Role Description:
We are looking for a Financial Services Solution Architect to help us support our continued growth. The Solution Architect is responsible for owning the overall design of the technical solution as well as recommending best practice solutions based on client needs. They provide technical guidance to the development of Salesforce.com and other SaaS applications to support business and product strategies. A Solution Architect facilitates discovery sessions to understand client processes and challenges and translates findings into technical requirements supported by a documented solution design. They provide thoughtful leadership and communication to project and client team members in order to build the foundation as a trusted partner.
Role Responsibilities:
- Responsible for designing a solution to leverage Salesforce product, features, and best practices extended with custom components to meet customer needs
- Delivers technical and non-technical documentation for assigned projects, with relevant architecture diagrams (data models, high-level architecture, integration architecture, etc.)
- Responsible for overall solution design, build task development, estimating effort to complete build tasks and oversight of reporting/dashboard creation and UAT.
- Familiarity with the difference between declarative and programmatic development, partner applications (i.e. Conga, DocuSign, AccountingSeed, etc), and general AppExchange products and when it is appropriate to use each in relation to customer requirements.
- Demonstrates the ability to perform Salesforce.com administration/configuration/data migration duties as needed
- Works effectively individually and with Coastal Cloud team members and client members toward customer satisfaction and success
- Act as a solution SME, working with Delivery leadership and Account Executives to accurately scope sales proposals
- Partner with Project Managers to encourage a collaborative environment with delivery and customer project teams.
- Seeks opportunities to develop professional and technical skills, while also providing guidance and support to Coastal Cloud team members for technical and professional growth
- Achieves and maintains necessary Salesforce technical certifications and Salesforce partner certifications