Salesforce Technology Architect

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About the Salesforce Business Group

Accenture's Salesforce Business Group is the part of Accenture Technology devoted to selling, delivering, and supporting Salesforce technology-based projects across Australia & New Zealand. Part of our global practice, our local and international ability is recognised unanimously as number 1 by Industry Analysts in their annual ratings on Salesforce consulting partners. We think we're unique among our peers with our ability to understand Salesforce, its ecosystem and the career goals of those working in the Ohana. We also bring our collective Accenture capability to our Salesforce work. We work with our industry, consulting, strategy, service design and digital consultants to transform our clients.

Beyond doing the most exciting and most significant projects with the best team, we are at the foundation an Ohana (meaning family). We believe we offer individuals a supportive home to grow your career no matter what your level of experience, speciality, gender, family situation, heritage, or life goals. And if you're working from the kitchen bench or have an upset child in the background, we want to let you know that we get it. You'll feel our team's difference from the moment you speak with us. We're proud of the culture that shines through.

What’s on offer

• A leadership team whose Managing Directors have a collective 50 years of experience in Salesforce delivery.

• Over 300 of your Salesforce specialist peers, including 7 Certified Technical Architects, will aid your career growth whilst working with some of Australia's biggest brands on complex and groundbreaking projects.

• Access to unlimited Salesforce certification vouchers across the entire Salesforce product catalogue

• Attend formal and informal training, such as our Khumbu sessions, Ohana Meetings, My trailhead courses or our Delivery Lead, Technical Architect and Solution Architect certifications.

• A merit-based structured career program - Take on responsibilities in one of our communities of practice and build a career that could last your entire professional life.

• Use in-house tools like our project management, estimators, security, code quality and DevOps tools.

• Support for work from home, from overseas or transfer to other countries (Depending on client needs, circumstances and your own performance)

Your role

We are looking for a passionate individual who will collaborate, manage the team to perform and act as the Subject Matter Expert. You will be responsible for team decisions and will collaborate with various teams for input into these key decisions. As a Technology Architect, you will provide solutions to problems that apply to other areas of the business.

Requirements

• Deep knowledge of Salesforce technical capabilities with a proven track record in this type of role is a must.

• Experience with various integration patterns and approaches using Salesforce and other technologies.

• Describe technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

• Provide guidance and leadership to onshore & offshore team members in areas of design and delivery.

• Work with other project teams to coordinate, design and deliver an end-to-end solution.

• Build strong relationships with client stakeholders.

• Estimate work for themselves and the team.

• Work to an agreed schedule and escalate appropriately during the course of the delivery phase.

• Determine the technical approach, direction, and implementation for a work request to ensure proper design

• Plan and develop technical standards for service or product development teams

• Work with application architects to define software and hardware requirements for planning and delivering architecture

• Conduct impact analyses of technical requirements on the system

• Lead, direct, and participate in new technology adoption

• Communicate and resolve application interface issues

• Run technical and design workshops to understand their business goals and challenges and technical environment.

• Manage the development lifecycle to ensure the delivery of highly secure solutions that are optimized for performance and built to scale.

• Articulate design considerations, trade-offs, benefits, and recommendations for a technical architecture in a variety of forums, including Architectural Governance meetings, Internal Quality Assurance reviews and interactions with Salesforce Professional Services and other Salesforce partners.

• Collaborate with the Functional team to determine how best to implement scalable and maintainable solution on/off platform.

• Generate and review designs and ensure they follow best practices and meet business goals.

• Design and build scalable and reusable frameworks.

• Be the key escalation point for technical and architecture issues.

• Provide knowledge and guidance to the project team on Salesforce security best practices, integration patterns and best practices, development and coding standards.

What we need from you

• Innovate, coming up with creative, robust and quality solutions to customer problems.

• Communicate to a wide range of people through email, showcases, presentations, meetings and workshops.

• A relentless passion for client success.

• Commercial acumen, both about the client's business goals and Accenture's obligations.

• Robust analysis and design skills equal to your speciality

• A collaborative spirit.

• A passion for Salesforce, its ecosystem, technology and ethos.

• Ethical behaviour, on every level, with an equal commitment to equality and diversity.

• Relevant experience (see below) and relevant Salesforce certifications or Trailhead badges.

• Those with Master proficiency in Technology Architecture / Expert proficiency in Application Architecture will be high regarded.

Important Note:

Preference will go to candidates based in Australia that have current working rights. We are unable to provide Visa Sponsorship for this role.

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