Salesforce Solutions Architect - London with travel - Negotiable - Per

Our client is seeking a highly motivated and energetic Salesforce Solutions Architect to design high quality solutions in an inspiring and challenging environment.

As Salesforce Solutions Architect your main responsibilities will include:

• Engage with customers to understand their requirements, design and document the appropriate solution
• Contribute to established best practices
• Effectively manage time and people to deliver project components
• Provide status reports and raise issues on a timely basis
• Author and deliver design documents, statements of work and knowledge base articles
• Proactively identify and communicate potential issues and / or risks
• Support sales efforts by looking for opportunities to increase sales
• Lead and manage developers on a project in a team lead capacity

Essential IT and Design skills must include:

• Developing custom applications on the force.com platform, including Salesforce.com
• Sites and experience of development with the Salesforce.com API
• Integration of projects between Salesforce.com CRM and other enterprise applications, such as CRM, SFA, ERP (Oracle Applications, SAP, PeopleSoft, JDE, Baan, QAD, Siebel) from an architectural and development standpoint
• Ability to use both custom code and proprietary middle-ware applications (Cast Iron, MAGIC or Informatica)
• Software development experience using tools, such as Use Case Modelling, UML, Sequence Diagrams, Component Models & Deployment Models
• Deployments of enterprise software systems using XML, HTTP / HTTPS, Java, C++, and ASP
• EAI, middleware, or other integration experience at the enterprise level (TIBCO, webMethods, BEA WebLogic, J2EE / JMS)
• EDI, FlatFile, FTP, Secure FTP, SSL, RosettaNet, ebXML, Ariba
• Previous experience with a professional consulting organisation
• B.S. in Business, Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or equivalent work experience

Other skills should include:

• Must be willing to take on significant travel, and on-site working as required
• Experience with project life-cycles from initiation through to closure and the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong customer focus and consultative skills
• A track record of high performance and exceeding customer expectations
• Understand issues regarding scalability, reliability, Salesforce.com governor limits
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to develop processes and methodologies
• Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies