Responsibilities
Peraton is seeking a Salesforce Solution Architect to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Herndon, VA. The qualified applicant will become part of Peraton’s Department of State (DOS) Consular Systems Modernization (CSM) Program, for the Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA). This initiative will modernize and consolidate the operational environment under a common technology framework in order to better support the services provided to CA’s customers.
Day to Day Roles and Responsibilities:
- Design and provide solution recommendations and roadmaps for service modernizations using Salesforce Platform
- Work closely with Delivery Managers, Solution Architects, and directly with customers to architect Salesforce solutions to meet business requirements
- Develop architecture models and blueprints depicting Salesforce solutions, along with service integrations, for service modernizations
- Document, maintain, and govern Salesforce solutions to meet business requirements for service modernizations across their respective lifecycles
- Strong communication with teams, customers, and project stakeholders, as well as provide leadership throughout the project lifecycle
- Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forward
- Contribute to a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies on enabling technologies including the Salesforce Platform
- Ensure that the system accurately meets the defined expectations of the business, ensuring that proper testing is implemented, and performance and security requirements are closely monitored by working with development teams
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Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field and 8-10 years’ of experience or Master’s Degree in a related field and 6-8 years’ of experience or high school diploma/equivalent and minimum of 12 years relevant experience
- Technical and interpersonal skills to design, describe, and manage Salesforce solutions
- Experience working in an Agile development environment with multiple modern programming languages (e.g. Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, etc.)
- Experience with examining how different elements of business, information, and technology can be applied to provide a modernized solution on the Salesforce platform
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to architect solutions to address security complexities, mechanisms, and data integration capabilities on the Salesforce platform
- Demonstrate a detailed understanding of foundational services provided with Salesforce Service Cloud and Experience Cloud (Community)
- U.S. Citizenship required; must have an active Public Trust clearance or above (i.e., Secret or Top Secret)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge about all phases of the Agile software development life cycle and Salesforce solution delivery for web, client-server, and cloud-based systems
- Good knowledge of modern software engineering principles and best practices
- Proven track record of work experience as an architect, project manager, or developer
- Salesforce certificates to demonstrate knowledge and competency
Peraton Overview
Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.
Target Salary Range
$112,000 – $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
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An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.