Join a great place to work with MissionSquare, a financial services corporation with approximately $75 billion in assets under management and administration and over 600 employees. Founded in 1972, MissionSquare is dedicated to the retirement needs of public sector employees. We focus on delivering results-oriented retirement and retiree health savings plans, education, investment options, personalized guidance, and related services to public sector participants in more than 9, 200 plans and nearly 1.3 million participant accounts. We strive to make the administration of retirement programs as easy and cost-effective as possible. We have an extraordinary talent base and invite you to consider joining MissionSquare's Technology team.

The Principal Architect, Software Engineering (Salesforce) is a member of MissionSquare's Technology team creating MissionSquare’s next generation technology applications. As part of an agile delivery team, the Principal Architect works with the Salesforce Product Manager, business owners and technical delivery teams to design complex cloud-based solutions using Salesforce, Salesforce Financial Services Cloud and related technologies.

Essential Functions for this role include:

• Own the development and delivery of the Personal Wealth Management CRM platform from inception through production implementation.
• Own the technical standards for the development and integration of the Salesforce Personal Wealth Management solution.
• Collaborate with the Personal Wealth Management business lead and Salesforce product manager to break themes and epics into features and document feature acceptance criteria.
• Estimate epic and feature sizes using agile relative sizing techniques.
• Lead high level feature design sessions and communicate high level designs to delivery teams and mentor junior architects and analysts in technical design and solutioning
• Identify implementation options for solutions and assess them for both technical and business suitability; determine nature and scope of changes to existing applications for enhancements and other changes.
• Lead technical team members to split features into user stories and provide guidance and oversight to delivery team members as they document story detail and acceptance criteria.
• Review and provide feedback on detailed technical design.
• Collaborate with Salesforce team members to ensure Salesforce development team follows best practices when architecting, programming and documenting solutions. This includes creating standards and documentation and leveraging processes to ensure all development staff follow the same technical standards and guidelines.
• Work with feature delivery teams to ensure testing and documentation are created or updated in accordance with team standards.
• Lead vendor analysis and proof-of-concepts/prototypes for new technologies/solutions.
• Act as knowledge integrator and translator between business users and technical team members; communicate effectively with developers, infrastructure architects and engineers, business analysts, information security practitioners, project managers, and senior management.
• Lead technology stakeholders to create and maintain technology policies and procedures.
• Stay up to date on the latest technology trends in Salesforce technical architecture as we as requirements gathering, analysis and documentation and stay informed on the latest technology trends in the industry.
• Provides production support to resolve operational issues in conjunction with other technical and functional teams.
• Leads the evaluation and recommendation of application software packages, application integration and testing tools.
• Actively participates in and contributes to team meetings and supports teammates.

If you have the following skills, we encourage you to apply:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in Information Systems, Engineering, or other related discipline and 10+ years of relevant experience. Or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• 10+ years of experience serving as a Salesforce technical and/or solutions architect.

• Experience in financial services or other regulated industries a plus. Experience supporting Personal Wealth Management use cases under Salesforce Financial Services Cloud required.

• Principal (master-level) level understanding of the Salesforce product suite including Salesforce Financial Services Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and the Salesforce Platform as well as data integration patterns and Salesforce data architecture.

• Extensive experience with Salesforce configuration, including workflows, validation rules, and security controls.

• Proficient in defining business requirements, writing user stories, and providing detailed Salesforce system and functional designs.

• Proficient in documenting current state and future state business processes using process flow diagrams.

• Principal-level experience defining the system architecture, identifying gaps between current and desired end-states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will enable achievement of the desired business outcomes.

• Experience integrating Salesforce with different business systems, as well as working with integration tools (ESB and ETL). Experience with Lightning, Visual Force, Apex controllers, Triggers, Batch jobs and standard SFDC components.

• Advanced understanding of the Salesforce.com data model and how and when to create custom objects vs. using Salesforce out-of-the-box functionality.

• Experience working in a leadership role as part of an agile cross-functional team (team-based mentality).

To benefit your career and support your wellbeing, we offer:

• Competitive Total Rewards (compensation and benefits) package, including 401(k) Plan with matching contributions
• Varied incentive plans
• Flexible/Hybrid work schedules
• Wellness programs
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional and career development courses
• Mentoring programs
• Volunteerism program

As a company, MissionSquare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to create an environment that reflects the value and diversity of our employees and fosters respect among them. We believe that talent from diverse backgrounds will further enhance our ability, and mission, to serve those who serve their communities.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected classifications under any applicable law.

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