The ideal Technical Architect candidate has extensive experience as a consultant and comprehensive knowledge of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform. The candidate must be able to lead requirement gathering sessions, design solutions and then develop those within the Salesforce platform. The candidate must also be able to manage customer expectations and scope by working closely with stakeholders and other internal parties as appropriate.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Assists various stakeholders and teams with understanding capabilities of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform.
• Works closely with various stakeholders to elicit, define and refine requirements for the Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform.
• Works closely with various stakeholders to design solutions involving the Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform.
• Documents design solutions within the appropriate documents as dictated by the established development processes.
• Develops the documented solutions through hands on implementation or through directing other developers as necessary.
• Establishes and evolves best practices for the development efforts within the Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform.
• Provides leadership and guidance on all technical aspects of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform.
• Stays current on Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform features and capabilities.
• Identifies risks to the platform or individual initiatives that they are engaged with and helps develop risk mitigations.

What you will need:

• 4+ years' experience in an architect role.
• 4+ years' experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
• 4+ years' experience with developing SQL with a RDBMS such as MySQL, Oracle, or MS SQL Server
• 1+ years' experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• 1+ years' experience with SOAP APIs, REST APIs and integration techniques.
• 4+ years' experience documenting business problems\requirements, designing solutions and authoring technical documentation.
• Certifications (two of): SFMC Email Specialist, SFMC Developer, SFMC Consultant
• Experience delivering solutions within waterfall and agile methodologies.

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