Job Description

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Job Category

Products and Technology

Job Details

Salesforce has various Software Architect/Principal Architect opportunities throughout the company. These positions require excellent technical skills and outstanding analytical and influencing skills paired with great business insight. It is a cross-functional role that requires alignment building and communication within a large engineering organization.
See some of the current openings at the bottom of the job description. Your application will be considered for all open Architect opportunities.

Responsibilities/Duties
Oversees and drives the end-to-end architecture of the product
Determines overall architectural principles, frameworks, and standards
Designs solutions that are enterprise scalable and maintainable
Drive strategic technology initiatives, working with Product Managers, other Architects,, Engineers,, SME's and the broader Salesforce organization
Works in a consultative fashion to improve communication, collaboration and alignment amongst teams inside and outside of the organization.
Analyzes and provides feedback on product strategy
Provides input into long-range product requirements, best practices, and operational guidelines, with focus on continuous improvement of platform reliability and serviceability
Drives research, case studies, and prototypes on leading edge technologies and how they can be leveraged
Ensures that we are continuously raising our standard of engineering excellence

Skills and Experience:
Mastery in multiple programming languages and platforms
More than 15 years of software development experience
Ability to independently design and deliver large complex projects
Ability to provide (informal) coaching to team members to support their understanding of the architecture and aid in their technical development
Experience with Agile development methodology (e.g., Scrum)
Ability to work with other architects, principal architects, and Chief Technology Officers to shape the architectural vision and roadmap for the organization.
Develops technical performance architecture that solves most complex performance issues.
Ability to drive long-term design strategies that span multiple complex projects, deliver technical reports and performance presentations to customers and at industry events
Ability to create an environment for honest and open discussion of all issues. You involve the right people, from your team and others, to resolve critical issues.
Experience in short release cycles, the full software lifecycle. Some roles require experience on a product that was released for public consumption across multiple releases
BS in related field and at least 15 years experience in the Information Technology arena, at least 3 years management or leadership experience in this field

Preferred Skills:
Familiarity with Salesforce platform can be a plus
AVAILABLE OPPORTUNITIES:

Software Architect - Health Cloud

Salesforce Health Cloud is looking for a Principal Software engineer/Architect to join our team in San Francisco. You will be working with a group of world-class engineers, architects and product managers to build the breakthrough features salesforce.coms industry customers will love, adopt and use while keeping the application stable and scalable. You have a solid understanding of the MVC pattern, an obsession with commenting your code, a natural tendency to self-test your code before calling it done and a knack for building quality user experience. Youll be a part of a modern, lean, self-governing engineering team where you have the ability to switch hats between coding to features, to testing for quality, performance to writing release management automation.
Software Architect -Einstein

Salesforce Einstein is seeking a Machine Learning Engineering Architect to help us deliver on our next generation AI/ML Platform for Salesforce. You will work on designing and bringing world-class ML to production on products used by used by millions of people every day. You will be working with a team of fellow data scientists, machine learning engineers, software developers, product managers and designers and will be part of an awesome team that will driving the future of next generation data-platform for AI applications
For Colorado-based roles: Minimum annual salary of $158,000. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.getsalesforcebenefits.com/

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