Solutions Architect (Salesforce.com)
Solutions Architect (Salesforce.com)
Grainger, a $10 Billion global leading broad line supplier of facilities maintenance products serving businesses and institutions. Our 23,000 employees are driven to serve customers and the community in exceptional ways focusing on delivering the highest level of service. The Grainger team works closely with customers to better understand their challenges and provide cost-saving solutions. Grainger's employees serve customers more than 115,000 times every day through multiple channels. As part of a high-performing team, you’ll be able to develop your talents, and make a difference. Grainger is a Fortune 500company and a perennial member of Fortune magazine's Most Admired Companies list.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the organization to understand organization and departmental strategy and agree information systems solutions to meet needs.
- Investigate information systems that might benefit Grainger and its customers.
- Lead in designing, specifying and selecting information system solutions, considering functionality, data, security, integration, infrastructure and performance.
- Develop and maintain a model of Grainger’s current and future Application Architecture.
- Develop and maintain a model of Grainger’s current and future web architecture and design a structure that is stable, resilient and performant.
- Lead the organization in exploiting technology and use knowledge of IT solutions to drive organizational change and support business process design.
- Understand and support to software architecturedesign and support development team in developing solutions
- Estimate cost, and prepare business cases for IT solutions, considering infrastructure, licenses, development and support
- Work with the Business Integration Manager, Program Managers and Business Analysts to develop high level project schedule resource plans for implementation projects.
Required Skills:
- Minimum of 3 -5 years Solution Architecture experience
- Ability to Learn new technologies
- Ability to drive end to end solutions
- Experience with Large Enterprise implementations of Salesforce.com
- Exposure to working with highly integrated Salesforce implementations with Large Data Volumes.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- IT experience which includes advanced skills in Salesforce, Force.com, Business Analysis and Project Scoping
- Solid experience in Data Modeling concepts and tools
- Applied knowledge of Salesforce and the Sales, Services, Chatter and Marketing functions
- Ability to develop practical solutions and methodologies as related to Salesforce
- SA should provide technical guidance to the development of Salesforce.com applications to support business and product strategies.
- The Solutions Architect will also work with Business Partners across the organization to appropriately scope, size, and solution project proposals
- Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor development team members and peers around Salesforce.com best practices
- Salesforce certification (Admin, Dev, Advanced Admin, Advanced Dev) preferred
“Grainger is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or protected veteran status.”
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