Salesforce Architect

at  IBM

Introduction
As a Salesforce Consultant you will serve as a client-facing practitioner who sells, leads and implements expert services utilizing the breadth of IBM’s offerings and technologies. A successful Consultant is regarded by clients as a trusted business advisor who collaborates to provide innovative solutions used to solve the most challenging business problems.
You will work on projects that help clients integrate strategy, process, technology, and information to increase effectiveness, reduce costs and improve profit and shareholder value. You can take advantage of opportunities to master new skills, work across different disciplines, move into new challenges and develop a robust understanding of different industries.

Innovative Salesforce CRM Solutions: Collaborate with clients and development team to design and implement creative solutions with Salesforce CRM Applications.
Strategic Consulting and Functional Leadership: Use your consulting skills and business knowledge to lead functional discussions to understand client’s business challenges and address them with solution architecture.
Architectural Best Practices Advocacy: Establish and promote with internal teams the design and architecture guidelines and best practice standards.
Your Role and Responsibilities
developer/configurator in Salesforce implementations, especially in the Telecommunications industry (Salesforce Industries), focused on best practices.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Required Professional and Technical Expertise**
Hands On experience with implementing enterprise CRM technical solution, including all aspects of configuration, customization, and integration out of which at least 6 years are on Salesforce
Hands on leading advanced technical and/or business consultative services to the client and building technical and integration specification documentation.
design and development utilizing the Salesforce Field Service
hands-on development utilizing the programmatic framework of the Force.com Platform including Mobile, SSO, API’s, web services, and integration to enterprise systems.
+ Exposure to Web Services, Soap & REST APIs, and integrations with various third-party tools
+ Able to custom build using JavaScript, AngularJS, JSON Scripting, HTML, CSS, Lightning, VisualForce, SOQL/SOSL, and Apex.
+ Professional experience in a test-driven and formal QA development environment
+ Familiarity in Salesforce Sharing Visibility and Access models
+ Excellent understanding of object-oriented design patterns especially those pertinent to Apex
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Knowledge of Agile development practices, particularly scrum and sprint-based delivery
+ Able to interact effectively with customers, and stay focused on customer objectives
+ Adaptable to changing requirements, changing schedules
+ Ability and desire to participate in project planning and scoping, both in a project kickoff role as well as a pre-sales role
+ Willingness to communicate project exceptions (e.g. slipping schedules) to project manager
+ Experience with Version Control Systems (especially Git-based) preferred
+ Familiarity with Jira and/or other Agile Lifecycle Management tools preferred
+ Familiarity with Salesforce DX a plus
+ Familiarity with AutoRABIT and/or other Continuous Integration tools a plus’
About Business UnitIBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
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