.DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTIONSalesforce Professional Services - Global Delivery Centre (GDC) focuses on delivering strategic engagements that define transformational opportunities and execution of change programs. We are the trusted delivery partner for Salesforce Professional Services that ensures end to end multi-cloud delivery capabilities across all Salesforce technologies and scales with agility for successful customer outcomes! We at GDC strive to foster growth & innovation and enable Salesforce Professional Services with focus on performance, productivity & impact.OVERVIEW OF THE ROLESalesforce is currently seeking multiple Technical Architects to join our Global Delivery Centre (GDC) team. The Technical Architect is responsible for successfully designing and leading the successful delivery of complex Salesforce solutions for our customers. These technologies include—but are not necessarily limited to Salesforce.Com products and APIs, Apex/Visualforce, Lightning, mobile development technologies, and integration/ETL technologies.You are both a big picture thinker and an in-depth problem solver; your knowledge and skills are both broad and deep. You take pride in designing systems that stand up to high volumes and won't fail at critical points. You have a good mix of technical and enterprise skills when it comes to architecting a solution. The solutions you design are built for the long term and will scale with the customer's growth plans seamlessly. You have validated experience integrating systems via APIs as well as a strong development background.YOUR IMPACTCollaborate with client stakeholders to define requirements, deliverables, and set and handle expectations.Translate business requirements into well-architected solutions that best leverage the Salesforce platform.Lead technical design sessions; architect and document technical solutions aligned with client business objectives; identify gaps between client's current and desired end states.Provide oversight and governance of Salesforce projects.Follow and help define coding standards. Lead code reviews during projects to ensure quality and appropriate design patterns are followed.Handle the technical delivery of custom development, integrations, and data migration elements of a Salesforce implementation.Maintain a target billable utilization aligned to the role.Ability to understand a project and deep dive to debug issues.From time-to-time, the TA may be expected to partake in other pre-sales activities such as discovery and technical deep-dive sessions, Proof-Of-Concept (POC) development with prospects.Liaise with Salesforce product teams to support client implementations.Travels to client sites for projects, estimated 50-75%.REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS9 years of CRM experience with a minimum of 6 years on the Salesforce platform.Expert-level understanding of the Salesforce product suite, including Sales, Service, Community, Marketing, and Community Clouds