Overview
Zennify is looking for a qualified candidate to join their team as a Certified Technical Architect (CTA)! This individual will play an integral role in the high satisfaction of Zennify’s clients through the design and development of scalable, high-quality Salesforce services and solutions. Other than being the designated extrovert of our project teams, the CTA is responsible for owning the overall governance and design of the technical application as well as recommending best practice solutions based on client business needs.  Our projects are with clients ranging from local, small and mid-sized companies to multi-national enterprise corporations, non-profit organizations and state and federal governments. Since we have such a wide range of clientele, all people with the gift of the gab are welcome here!
This position is remote with travel.   This is a permanent position and we are not accepting contractors at this time.

Primary Responsibilities 

• Responsible for designing and implementing the most technically complex components of a solution
• Responsible for functionality, performance, resilience, reuse, comprehensibility, scalability, security, technology constraints and tradeoffs of the solution being built
• Provide technical leadership and governance for Functional Architects, Solution Architects, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Developers and client stakeholders
• Meet with clients to capture technical requirements
• Accurately estimate the time required to implement the technical solution
• Identify and mitigate risks across the entire technical architecture
• Deliver detailed architectural blueprints to client stakeholders
• Write code examples, build proofs of concepts and prototypes to serve as a blueprint for developers
• Set quality standards and ensure adherence to them
• Manage any change that may have negative effects on speed, performance, security and ability to handle a particular workload
• Participate in selection and strategy of quality assurance processes and tools
• Advise, setup and maintain release management strategies to ensure optimal deployment of new technologies, including continuous integration and continuation deployment models
• Contribute to the growth of the technical team through thought leadership, development of solution accelerators, creation of technology standards, coaching and mentoring engineers and participation in other operational areas (recruiting, training etc.)
• Participate in the sales cycle (solution definition, pre-sales, estimating and project planning)
• Research, create adoption strategies and enable new technologies

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Salesforce software development
• 6+ years of experience leading external, client facing  technical consulting services for complex system implementations; minimum 3+ years hands-on technical experience with multiple Salesforce clouds
• Strong knowledge and understanding of data strategy, data integration design, data migration and data architecture
• Strong experience with web applications, databases and a variety of programming languages
• Strong experience with object oriented development
• Deep understanding of Salesforce platform and related technologies, data model, concepts, limitations and practices
• Strong experience leading technical requirements gathering and solution design sessions with clients
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills; executive level presence and experience facilitating meetings
• Ability to communicate complex technical solutions to non-technical business users from various backgrounds including sales, support and marketing
• Multiple Salesforce certifications
• Strong Salesforce development and design skills including: Apex, LWC, SOQL, Flow and other standard and advanced Salesforce automation tools
• Superior experience conducting unit, integration, and performance testing and participating with users for user acceptance testing to support a successful project outcome
• Superior experience analyzing and mitigating bugs and issues as needed to support a successful project outcome
• Strong experience leading design and code reviews  
• Superior experience leading release planning and deployment  
• Superior technical writing skills
• Ability to meet travel requirements, when applicable (up to 50% travel projected)
• Is comfortable with the overuse of GIFs on Slack (no, seriously, we send a lot of GIFs)

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce Certified Technical Architect
• Salesforce Application Architect and System Architect Certifications
• Experience with Salesforce Financial Services Cloud
• Experience with integration platforms such as Mulesoft, Boomi or Informatica
• Experience in cloud technologies other than Salesforce such as Amazon Web Service, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
• Business acumen with Wealth and Financial Services industry
• Qualities of the Ideal Candidate
• Thrives in a team-based, high energy and fast-paced environment
• Service-oriented and innately driven to produce outstanding customer satisfaction and results
• Enjoys discovering, learning about and implementing new technologies
• Analytical and able to logically and methodically work through problems
• Strong aptitude for prioritization and multitasking in a deadline-driven environment
• Possess a sense of urgency with strong organizational and follow-up skills
• Demonstrates the following leadership skills:
• Sets deadlines for project team members
• Assigns responsibilities and directs the work of project team members
• Mentor, train and guide team members
• Monitors progress
• Coaches and mentors
• Escalates when necessary
• Analyzes/Identifies areas of risk and develops plans to minimize risk
• The ability to work productively as a remote team member and willingness to travel as needed up to approximately 30% of the time.
• Be a nerd. No, seriously, we are all a little nerdy here. If nerding out can both excite you and put you at ease, you’re in good company.