Salesforce Solution Architect

Company: Brown Advisory
Location: Baltimore
Posted on: March 19, 2023

Job Description:

Company Overview

Every firm has a culture - the values, beliefs, methodology, attitudes and standards that reflect an organization's DNA. But the truly inspiring firms - the game-changers, the industry leaders and the disruptors - have cultures that propel them to innovate and stand out. At Brown Advisory, we aim to be one of those inspired firms. Over the years, we have purposefully built and nurtured our client-first culture.

Brown Advisory is an independent investment management and strategic advisory firm committed to delivering a combination of first-class performance, strategic advice and the highest level of client service with offices in Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Delaware, Frankfurt, London, New York, North Carolina, San Francisco, Singapore, Southern California, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The firm's institutional and private clients are based in 50 states and more than 44 countries and territories and are served by over 800 colleagues worldwide, all of whom are equity owners of the firm.

Job Description

Brown Advisory's Information Technology group is seeking a proactive and professional individual to serve as a Salesforce Solution Architect. The Solution Architect is responsible for managing, designing, and building world-class products and experiences into Salesforce. This includes aligning technology and business team's strategies, systems analysis, requirements definition, systems integration, testing, and support of new and existing Salesforce capabilities in alignment with key business objectives.

As the Salesforce Solution Architect your duties and responsibilities will include:

* Lead in the requirements gathering, prioritization, development and implementation of new Salesforce-based solutions.
* Manage the full solution delivery lifecycle including documenting features, collaborating with IT developers, supporting testing efforts, facilitating business testing, and managing deployment efforts.
* Build and maintain effective relationships with business and IT leaders to understand current and emerging business needs.
* Understand business process and business requirements of the customers and translating them to requirements artifacts such as BRD/Functional spec/Use stories.
* Ability to jump in quickly to understand the requirement and find out dependencies and/or creating proof of concepts (POC)
* Provide ongoing support activities for existing solutions, including regular business interaction and facilitating delivery of enhancements and bug fixes as required.
* Write Technical Specifications for development team
* Lead small teams of SMEs in support of multiple product life cycles and backlog prioritizations.
* Apply people management skills to coach, mentor and develop salesforce administrators.
* Focus on active development working groups while overseeing post-launch maintenance of Salesforce platform.
* Serve as point of contact for technology issue escalation and communication
* Management and logging of user feedback in Agile, JIRA, Confluence and/or other appropriate systems
* Experience in documenting requirements on large end to end initiatives that include multiple technology teams across the enterprise (Digital, CRM, BPM, Middleware, Backend)
* Effectively partner with a wide range of teams, including business leaders, delivery teams and external partners, to drive business success.
* Provide thought-leadership across business and technical project dimensions solving complex business requirements.
* Evangelize re-usable components that can be enterprise assets.
* Continuously identify opportunities and executes process improvements.

Job Requirements

* 6 + years of experience in hands-on experience in designing and implementation of Salesforce solutions and should have at least 1 Enterprise full life cycle Architect experience of Salesforce projects
* Salesforce administrator certification preferred. Multiple certifications preferred.
* Experience with Sales Cloud and Financial Service Cloud preferred.
* Experience in middleware or iPaaS very helpful.
* Experience in the implementation, administration, maintenance and enhancements of Salesforce.
* Strong problem-solving skills
* Must be able to work independently, with minimal oversight.
* Strong analytical skills, follow-up capability, and problem-solving ability
* Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
* Strong interpersonal and oral communication skills
* Ability to present ideas and solutions in user-friendly language
* Highly self-motivated and directed
* Keen attention to detail
* Ability to comply with our COVID-19 vaccination policy

Salary: $100K-165K Commensurate with experience and location. Does not include bonus or long term incentive eligibility (if applicable).

Benefits

At Brown Advisory we offer a competitive compensation package, including full benefits.

* Medical
* Dental
* Vision
* Wellness program participation incentive
* Financial wellness program
* Gym membership discounts
* Fitness event fee reimbursement
* Corporate gym membership discounts
* Colleague Assistance Program
* Telemedicine Program (for those enrolled in Medical)
* Adoption Benefits
* Daycare late pick-up fee reimbursement
* Basic Life & Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
* Voluntary Life & Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
* Short Term Disability
* Paid parental leave
* Group Long Term Disability
* Pet Insurance
* 401(k) (50% employer match up to IRS limit, 4 year vesting)

Brown Advisory is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

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