Salesforce Technical Architect

Company Description

Acumen Solutions is the trusted leader in Enterprise Cloud Transformation, helping organizations realize dramatic improvements in productivity and profitability through innovations in business and technology. Industry and government leaders including American Express, Comcast, McKesson, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission rely on our global consultants to deliver cloud solutions that yield exceptional results. We apply this same focus on results to our unparalleled social responsibility program, generating sustainable impact across our local communities.

Job Description

We currently have an opportunity for a Salesforce Technical Architect in our London, UK location (travel required).

Roles and Responsibilities
The candidate will be responsible for creating & delivering, in a timely and accurate fashion, CRMs and workflow solutions using Salesforce/Apex, Force, Visualforce and J2EE technologies. The candidate will be responsible for the application design, development and support of Salesforce related projects. The candidate must demonstrate progressive leadership in the full life cycle of the software development environment. 
Through the use of UML diagrams, design documentation and best-practice methodologies; you will be responsible for the detailed design of Salesforce related projects from inception through production support. You will be responsible for ensuring that the system accurately meets the defined expectations of the business unit, ensuring that proper testing is implemented and performance requirements are closely monitored by working with the development teams.

Qualifications

- Experience in designing and developing software components and having a very strong Service Oriented Architecture and integration background. 
- Experience in Salesforce (SFDC) CRM with end to end implementation experience. 
- Salesforce.com integration experience, including between different business systems as well as working with integration tools. 
- Proficiency in programming using Salesforce SFDC, Force.com, Java, JavaScript, and XML and their use in the development of CRM solutions. 
- Strong experience with configuration, customization, programming with APEX APIs, APEX Triggers, and implementing new instances of Salesforce.com from scratch. 
- Strong practical deployment knowledge of VisualForce, Flex, Salesforce configurations, Apex classes, APEX Web services, API, AppExchange deployment, and Salesforce.com s-controls. 
- Ability to define the system landscape, to identify gaps between current and desired end-states, and deliver a CRM solution. 
- Additional Salesforce.com experience includes Workflow Alerts and Actions, and Approval Workflow. 
- Programming experience with the following languages, J2EE, HTML XML, SQL, Oracle.

Requirements 

Additional Information

- Willingness to travel up to 50%