Position: Integration Architect Salesforce
Company: CHI Software
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

Focus Domain: retail and B2B applications (marketing, sales, and care), and integrations of these applications. (Salesforce, Vlocity, SAP)

**Basic:**
Support in defining Integration  architecture strategies based on medium to long-term needs, best practices in the market, and Group guidelines.
Support in validating delivery choices and ensure compliance of projects/applications with overall architecture guidelines/
Ensure that the solutions effectively and efficiently support customer and business requirements/
Provide solution architectures across multiple technology domains on various accounts & projects in line with the IT strategy.

**List of activities:**
- deliver high-level solution models and solution architectures in line with business requirements
- assess the impact of business change requests on the existing architecture and support the prioritization of these changes
- provide technical direction and guidance on projects ensuring adherence to the target architecture standards
- work in close collaboration with the project stakeholders to understand the business requirements so that recommended solution options provide the best fit against requirements and budget 
- understand very well the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) drivers and contribute to keep their evolution under control
- provide expert advice within your domain and advise stakeholders on how to best align business processes within this domain
- perform the design authority role on projects ensuring that the detailed designs and solutions remain aligned to the defined architecture, managing and resolving any issues as they arise
- work with external and internal suppliers to ensure that the appropriate technology direction is clear
- keep a watchful eye on technological and methodological evolutions in your domain and introduce these evolutions at the right time within business units
- ensure correct and up-to-date application architecture artifacts and blueprints
- collaborate with colleague architects in providing consensus-based IT solutions that are scalable and adaptable to changing business needs.

**Skills and requirements:**
The ideal candidate holds a master's degree in exact sciences (preferably in IT) or has attained a comparable level through relevant experience;
- have a proven track record of working on successful solution & integration architecture designs and their implementation;
- Background SOA and various integration technologies. 
- Knowledge of Salesforce and/or SAP is an advantage. 
- Sufficient technical knowledge to correctly evaluate migration, trials and development strategies.
- Competences able to explain complex technical solutions in English to your business management allowing them to evaluate options and take the right decisions.
- have strong listening, communication, facilitation, influencing and analytical skills. 
- able to transform theoretical concepts into pragmatic and working solutions 
- able to identify opportunities, threats, impact of changing technology.
- interested in understanding the energy generation and supply business.

**For understanding**
● What is the most important skill set - Architecture or Development?  
Architecture
● Is writing code expected? 
No
● What is the approx. the goal of the first 6 months? E.g. data migration, architecture, integrating different systems? 
Architecture Design