A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We are seeking a seasoned Salesforce Technical Architect to lead the design and implementation of Salesforce solutions tailored for a Federal Agency. This role involves working within a cleared environment and leveraging Salesforce GovCloud Plus to meet the unique compliance and security requirements of federal operations. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of Salesforce architecture, extensive experience in federal IT systems, and a track record of delivering scalable and secure solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Technical Design and Architecture:
- Develop scalable, secure, and compliant Salesforce solutions using Salesforce GovCloud Plus.
- Translate business requirements into technical designs, ensuring alignment with federal standards and regulations.
- Design data models, process flows, and integration strategies that optimize system performance.
2. Implementation Leadership:
- Lead the implementation of Salesforce solutions working with other Architects to help drive custom development and configuration.
- Ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
- Oversee the development of prototypes, proofs of concept, and detailed technical documentation.
3. Collaboration:
- Collaborate with federal agency stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements.
- Work closely with project managers, developers, and business analysts to ensure successful project delivery.
- Provide thought leadership and technical guidance to project teams.
4. Compliance and Security:
- Ensure solutions meet federal security and compliance standards, including FedRAMP, IL 5/6 and air gapped environments.
- Work within the constraints of a cleared environment, adhering to all security protocols and procedures.
- Conduct security assessments and implement best practices to safeguard sensitive data.
5. Continuous Improvement and Innovation:
- Stay informed about Salesforce advancements and their applicability to federal use cases.
- Recommend and implement improvements to optimize system performance and user experience.
- Advocate for the adoption of new features and technologies that align with agency goals.
- 3-5+ years of application development experience, previous professional services or consulting experience, and experience managing a development team of 2-5+ resources.
- Extensive Salesforce custom development experience working in Lightning, Communities, Apex code, Process Builder, Visualforce, Workflows, CSS, HTML, Java, Templates and Web Services; experience with custom application development using Apex programming in Force.com, utilizing Visual Force and Lightning Components/Framework.
- Experience with object modeling in Salesforce and understanding of fundamental database concepts (including SQL), experience with integrating with the Salesforce platform (inbound/outbound) using the REST/SOAP APIs or Data Loader.