Salesforce Solution Architect 1

Salesforce Solution Architect 1 Req ID #:  100719 Location: 

Wilmington, MA, US, 01887 MADRID, M, ES, 28029 Norwich, CT, US, 06360 Paris, FR Tranent, GB, EH33 2NE Hatfield, GB, AL10 9SN Port Seton, GB, EH32 0TD Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, BE, 1030 Amsterdam, NL, 1077 ZX MILANO, Milan, IT, 20122 Harlow, GB, CM19 5TR Warsaw, PL, 00-124 Cologne, NW, DE, 51105 Cambridge, GB, CB23 6DP US Budapest, HU Dublin, IE, D09 Sant Cugat del Vallès, B, ES, 08174 At Charles River, we are passionate about improving the quality of people’s lives. When you join our global family, you will help create healthier lives for millions of patients and their families. 

Charles River employees are innovative thinkers, who are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. We will empower you with the resources you need to grow and develop in your career. 

As a Charles River employee, you will be part of an industry-leading, customer-focused company at the forefront of drug development. Your skills will play a key role in bringing life-saving therapies to market faster through simpler, quicker, and more digitalized processes. Whether you are in lab operations, finance, IT, sales, or another area, when you work at Charles River, you will be the difference every day for patients across the globe.

  Job Summary

The Salesforce.com Technical Architect is responsible for working on full lifecycle engineering efforts using Agile methodologies, object-oriented design, and accepted design practices and patterns. This role will work closely with other technical engineers, collaborating with technology and business stakeholders to develop, support, and enhance our Salesforce instance. Candidates will help establish a Salesforce architecture vision and strategy that is scalable and enables business objectives. This includes working collaboratively with product owners to drive design choices and recommend, develop and implement technical solutions as well as providing technical expertise to other development teams. He/She will provide technical thought leadership for the Salesforce platform, and collaborate across teams to solve complex design issues, avoid technical debt, drive agile practices, and implement architecture best practices.

ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Defines architectural practices and guidelines for the Salesforce ecosystem, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Apttus Conga CPQ and CLM, Einstein, Pardot, etc.

• Delivers technical designs that meet project requirements, while maintaining consistency with the Enterprise Architecture guidelines

• Utilize best practices to perform operational support, enhancements, bug fixes as needed to the Salesforce.com platform

• Perform configuration and customization of the Salesforce.com platform.

• Participate in efforts to develop and execute testing, training and documentation

• Collaborates with product owners as a Salesforce expert, present options, and helps build full solutions to meet business needs

• Has an expert understanding of Salesforce.com standard applications, web application development, Salesforce integration, and tools such as the Salesforce APIs, Apex, Lightning and the AppExchange that are used to extend the standard product set

• Integration knowledge with SAP

• Knowledge in the Analytics space – example Microsoft Azure tool set, Power BI…

• Leads technical discovery sessions, writes technical architecture documents, and leads integration design

• Has a solid business understanding and is able to translate business process flows into technical use cases

• Perform technical solution reviews and provide recommendations to improve adoption and usage

• Identifies and mitigates technical risks across the architecture

• Works with Data Management Org to incorporate data standards, data mastering and management processes, and other data related requirements into architecture planning and solution design

• Helps set product vision and lead road mapping activities

• Documents design decisions, process and data flows for the development team

• Acts as a mentor/advisor to SFDC Platform team Developers, Admins, and Analysts

• Ensure adherence to CRL standards and compliance with regulatory bodies are maintained (FDA, ISO, PCI, SOX, HIPPA, US, EU)

• Contribute to building a high-performance team

• Perform all other related duties as assigned Job Qualifications Education: Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Certifications: Salesforce Application/Developer, and Architect certifications preferred

Experience: Minimum of 3 years working as a Salesforce Solution Architect. 10+ years of experience working with the Salesforce platform

Other:

• Salesforce.com Certified Developer Certification desired

• Have experience with multiple salesforce implementations

• Working knowledge and experience with complex business systems integration as well as object-oriented design patterns and development

• Experience and expertise in core web technologies including HTML5, Javascript and jQuery

• Software engineering skills with Force.com Platform (Apex, VisualForce, SOQL, Unit Testing)

• Software engineering skills with Java SE & EE (Java, JSF, SQL) preferred

• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of relational databases, data modeling, data mastering and ETL tools.

• Experience with Agile development methodologies such as XP/SCRUM

• Experience with web services (REST & SOAP, JSON & XML, etc.)

• A desire to work with the latest tools, technologies, and methodologies (Force.com Platform,, Visual Studio, object relational (O/R) mapping, Azure Integrations, MuleSoft)

• Experience with test automation and continuous integration technologies, the Salesforce.com deployment process, and source control

• Demonstrated leadership and influencing skills at all levels

• Effectively communicate and make technical information consumable to large, multi-national audiences

• Excellent business acumen and communication skills

• Have proven emotional intelligence (EQ) and relationship building skills

• Be able to conceptualize and develop impartial alternative solution approaches, articulating the benefits and tradeoffs of each.

• Experience building Technology roadmaps

• Experience working in an Agile/ product and platform centric operating model

About Corporate Functions 

The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.

About Charles River

Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.

With over 17,000 employees within 90 facilities in 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world. And in 2019, revenue increased to $2.62 billion.

At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly supported the development of ~85% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2019.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - M/F/Disabled/Vet.

If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

For more information, please visit www.criver.com.

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