Principal Architect - Salesforce

At Realtor.com®, we have among the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of real estate listings and the most engaged users across all the online real estate portals. Our mission is to make buying, selling, renting, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone.
Building your career? Build it better at Realtor.com®. Join us and help change the world of real estate, one home at a time.
Are you a Salesforce expert? Are you ready to implement, deliver and support application lifecycle projects utilizing commercial, open source and custom-developed software by partnering with Sales, Marketing, Service, Tech and Finance stakeholders ? If you want to pursue your professional goals as you help grow an innovative real estate tech company , this work is for you. Join us as our newest Principal Architect - Salesforce and help change the world of real estate, one home at a time.
What you'll do:

• Actively participate in the multi-year implementation and expansion of the SFDC platforms at Realtor.com .
• Gather, analyze and document technical requirements for new projects, enhancements to existing solutions and production issues reported by end users
• Serve as the applications architect for Salesforce and CRM-related applications; understand and communicate functionality, identify risks, manage change and design solutions that are efficient, scalable and cost-effective.
• Recommend build vs. buy when It comes to third party integrations for the SFDC stack
• Partner with ERP and CRM stakeholders to analyze, understand and improve finance/sales operations that increase employee productivity and end-user effectiveness
• Create business process models using best practice techniques, including current and future state solution design documents using requirements gathered
• Operate and leverage Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Ability to dive deep and research production system issues, resolve user problems and escalate when necessary
• Create and execute unit, integration and user acceptance test plans, including use cases and test data
• Support change control best practices, including the management of user requests/approvals and promoting changes to production
• Occasionally manage the delivery of projects, including project plans, status meetings, progress reports and initiation/closure activities
• Rollup sleeves and participate on a wide spectrum of skills when required

How we work
We balance accelerated creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration and flexibility, from inside and outside of our office walls. For most roles, our employees work three days of their choice in our offices and the remaining two days from home.
What you'll bring:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field
• Embrace new technology stack, solution stack and mix of multiple vendors on the SFDC stack
• Experience dealing with multiple vendors from the SFDC ecosystem such as Big Machines, Apptus, etc.
• Experience with heavy duty customizations on the SFDC stack
• 10+ years work experience in a application development and architecture role supporting Sales/Marketing and Service organization
• Must have experience with Salesforce including lead management, lead nurturing/scoring, marketing campaign management, opportunity management and sales pipeline/forecast management.
• Development of custom solutions on the Salesforce platform include working on Apex Triggers, Apex Classes, Visualforce, SOQL queries, components and Configurations
• Strong mix of experience with: Java, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, HTML5, AWS, MVC, API, and SQL
• Experience with data integration technologies that import/export data with Salesforce
• Experience developing reports and dashboards in Salesforce
• Strong and effective written, verbal and presentation skills with the ability to collaborate with team members and business stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Must be comfortable with juggling multiple priorities with the ability to manage time effectively
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical and investigative skills

Additional locations for this role are Santa Clara, CA; Westlake Village, CA; Austin, TX; Scottsdale, AZ and Vancouver, BC, Canada
At Realtor, we recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates.
The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect in the listed locations. We tailor our offers based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, location and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process. All ranges are location based, ranges for positions in other locations may vary based on the local market.
Salary Range for select office locations

• Santa Clara $224,700 to $325,700
• Westlake Village $204,400 to $296,400

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Accordingly, offers extended for this role will include an annual bonus target typically expressed as percentage of salary. Similarly to salary, annual incentive bonus targets are set based on a variety of factors including job level, competitive market practice, experience, tenure, and essential skills.
In addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.
Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com
Building your career? Build it better at Realtor.com®. Here, you'll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you'll find your way home too. People are our foundation-the core that drives us passionately forward. At Realtor.com, you'll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return we'll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.
Diversity is important to us, therefore, realtor.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, realtor.com will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.