at CDW LLC in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
As a Lead Salesforce Solution Architect, you will need a deep understanding of the Salesforce product and platform to provide strong technical leadership on solutions that enable CDW’s business transformation outcomes. Equally important, you would be collaborating with stakeholders within tech and in the business to understand business requirements, develop prototypes/POCs, and socialize your vision to evolve and gain buy-in for the final technical solutions.
Key Areas of Responsibility
Collaborate with business stakeholders to determine business-specific application needs
Demonstrate application prototypes and integrate user feedback to evolve final solutions
Work with EA to ensure implementation follows native platform best practices for maintaining scalability and performance within the platform ecosystem and with other CDW supporting apps/systems
Work with SI’s to ensure implementation of architectural guidelines and support the team with technical guidance and POC’s
Work with the portfolio management team to participate in SAFE planning and contribute to a program vision while advising and articulating a cohesive technology and business aligned roadmap
Incorporate industry trends and best practices in our software design and development frameworks
Enable large scale change by focusing on technical process improvement and operational excellence
Advise the business on ways to improve user adoption and opportunities to rationalize technology landscape and improve cost efficiencies. Work with Salesforce Product Architects to push critical features to future product releases of CPQ, PSA etc
Education and/or Experience Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science
10+ years of overall experience into Software Development Life Cycle as a leader
5+ years of experience as a Salesforce Solution Architect
Required Qualifications
7+ years of strong hands-on experience in LWC, Aura, Apex Programming, SOQL, VisualForce, RESTful Web Services
Working knowledge in all stages of the software development life cycle: requirements gathering, design, development, testing and implementation
Experience in solution designing on Order to Cash platforms like Salesforce CRM, Salesforce CPQ, Financial Force PSA, Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Order management
Experience integrating Salesforce with other products using Cloud middleware platforms like Azure Service Bus etc
Certification in Salesforce CPQ and Salesforce Administration
Understanding of complex legacy technology landscape needed to create optimal hybrid solution architecture
CDW is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
