Primary Purpose
- The Lead Consultant is responsible for creating the most appropriate architecture and providing technical leadership in large complexity Salesforce project(s) independently.
Responsibilities
Project Delivery
- Provide technical leadership in large complexity project(s) independently.
- Define system-level application architecture that includes high-level design, architectural policies and principles, design and programming guidelines, implementation risks and mitigation measures, software development and integration strategies, software configuration controls, etc.
- Maintain control over the architecture throughout the entire software development lifecycle by continuously making critical adjustments to the architecture to ensure desired results are achieved.
- Involve in requirement analysis phase to ensure the implementation feasibility of functional specifications. Highlight requirement gaps, disproportional construction efforts, technical challenges and any other issues to business analyst teams.
- Develop the Technical Design Specification (TDS) independently.
- Provide technical leadership in the project through established design and development methodologies, to ensure system meets functional and system requirements.
- Engage customers to explain the rationale of architecture’s selection, or other technical issues.
- Ensure best practices, frameworks and re-useable components are employed in the project.
- Trouble-shoot technical problems faced by the project team.
Organisation Development
- Coach, train and mentor Consultants.
- Share technology knowledge with the rest of organisation through Community of Practice (CoPs) or other in-house forums.
- Package and conduct technical courses.
- Contribute to knowledge repository on experience learnt through project implementation.
Business Development
- Be involved in pre-sales solution activities to review technical solution and estimated effort prepared by proposal team.
Requirements
- Typically 7 - 10 years’ experience in technical role with responsibilities that apply in-depth knowledge of architectural principles and design.
- Requires 5 years or more experience in Salesforce projects.
- Experience in developing and deploying large scalable production applications on Cloud platforms and Containers
- Working knowledge of DevOps software development tools and methodologies.
- Broad and deep knowledge in current IT technologies.
- Proficiency in Salesforce technology specification and standards.
- Proficiency in Java-related or .Net technology specification and standards.
- Certification in appropriate technologies is an advantage.
- Self-motivated with a positive “can-do” attitude, creative with excellent presentation, communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills including strong persuasive techniques.
- Ability to lead, develop and maintain respectful and trusting relationship.
- Proficient in written and spoken English.
- Degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Information Technology related field, or IT equivalent.
- Able to travel as required.
