Salesforce Technical architect

**Next level Incorporation** Contract Position || Salesforce Technical Architect || San Francisco, CA  Job Description: • Extensive experience on the Salesforce platform to help deliver projects on time and with excellent quality. • The candidate should display strong leadership skills and have the ability to influence direction and leverage best practices. Required Skill: • Strong application development background required. • 6-8 Overall IT experience • 4+ years of Implementation, Design, and Configuration experience within Salesforce is required. • Possesses experience in leading and driving medium to large scale Salesforce.com implementation projects. • Fundamental understanding of the overall Architecture of Salesforce platform in order to comply with the audit, security and supervisory related policies and procedures. • Profound knowledge of Salesforce product offerings: Sales/Service cloud, Force.com, Feed, Database.com, and Communities. • Deep experience in all aspects of the Salesforce platform including: Administration, Configuration (incl. • reports/dashboards), Customization, APEX coding, Visualforce and Integration • Experience with Force.com integration technologies such as CastIron, Boomi, etc. • Comprehensive understanding of Salesforce APIs and data loading mechanisms and tools. • Understands optimal environment management and release management practices required to deploy and support SFDC. • Understands the Cloud computing paradigm. • Experience working within geographically dispersed (offshore) teams is desired. • Administrator and Developer certification is strongly desired. • Candidate should possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Preferred Skill: • Prior Object Oriented Development experience is highly desired. • Knowledge of Agile development methodology strongly desired. • Platform Developer II or Advanced Developer certification highly desired • Java, JavaScript and other web development capabilities All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.