Enterprise Salesforce Architect
Kin + Carta is a digital transformation organization. As one of the key strategic pillars, Kin + Carta Connect is a full-service digital agency that strategizes, designs, builds, implements, tests, and optimizes world-class, global, and multi-channel experiences.
The ideal Enterprise Salesforce Architect for Kin + Carta is innovative, passionate about designing, building and integrating enterprise-scale software systems, looks to continually learn, and enjoys sharing expertise in a collaborative environment. Strong verbal and written communication are a must. Experience working in an Agile Scrum development environment, or in a consulting capacity is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Creating high-impact software experiences and driving digital product innovation
- Applying your technical vision and experience with software design patterns to create elegant, scalable, and resilient systems and solution architectures
- Bringing your experience and expertise in architecting and delivering enterprise-scale solutions on challenging projects working with cross-disciplinary teams
- Defining the standards of excellence for technical delivery on client projects so that the team has a framework for success
- Being the technical voice for your team, advocating technical direction, and encouraging innovation among your client stakeholders
- Defining and implementing controls to ensure your solution will stand tall against real-world conditions
- Navigating complex data footprints, introducing modern data management and integration technologies, models, pipelines, and governance
- Ensuring platform security and stability and designing monitoring to enable your DevOps team to quickly pinpoint and respond to outages and slowdowns
- Improving your customer’s speed-to-market by implementing CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and containerized deployments
- Getting hands-on to solve the hardest problems or evaluate new frameworks
- Working with your team to develop and present technology solutions strategies to stakeholders
- Being a servant leader, mentoring engineers, and setting the bar of quality
- Contributing to the evolution of our architecture practice, applying and contributing to development standards and best practices
We want all new hires to succeed in their roles at Kin + Carta. That's why we've outlined the job requirements below. To be considered for this role, it's important that you meet all Minimum Qualifications. If you do not meet all of the Preferred Qualifications, we still encourage you to apply.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, computer science or related discipline
- Experience in evaluating, selecting and proposing the best approach and technologies to address client needs
- Experience architecting cloud-based solutions (Azure preferred)
- Experience in the strategy and implementation of application integrations
- Understanding and working within the Salesforce ecosystem, including Salescloud, and building systems that interact with CRM APIs and data
- Experience defining analytics strategy for CRMs and applications powered by CRMs including but not limited:
- Data strategy and reporting
- Governance and security
- Application tagging strategy
- Understanding and planning data models as well as hands-on experience executing the data model for enterprise clients
- Ability to create conceptual architecture and data model diagrams
- Understanding of data pipelines required for a CRM including multiple data domains. Ability to architect data pipelines for CRMs
- Understanding, defining and implementing enterprise data security and governance best practices
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate complex technology solutions to senior leadership, gain alignment, and drive progress
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience in a technical consulting or product innovation environment is ideal.
- Knowledgeable (or highly curious) about working with product and user experience experts.
- Familiar with and can work within various Agile frameworks.
- A seasoned technologist at the core, curious and excited about the impact of leveraging technology at scale.
- A lifelong learner with a knack for picking up new technologies quickly; able to apply core concepts across different technologies and frameworks.
- Natural communicator who can adjust their style to match the audience.
Kin + Carta exists to make the world work better by delivering transformative digital growth for our clients. As a digital transformation firm, we apply creativity, data, and technology to help clients invent, market, and operate new digital products and services that turn prospects into customers, and customers into advocates. Kin + Carta seamlessly integrates the strategic consulting, software engineering, and marketing technology needed to help businesses 'Make It Happen'.
Consultants at Kin + Carta have the opportunity to: engage with the most cutting-edge emerging technologies, solve difficult problems for some of the world’s biggest companies, and work within a breadth of industries.
Kin + Carta is headquartered in Chicago and London with offices across four continents. Our culture and shared ways of working unite us globally, but it’s our diverse specialisms, our connections, and our courage that makes our firm a recognized best place to work.
We welcome our Kin to show up as their full selves every day. Because this is so important to us, Kin + Carta is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. If you need accommodations at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.