The Virtus Solution is seeking a highly skilled Salesforce Solution Architect & Project Manager to lead the design, development, and delivery of end-to-end Salesforce solutions. This hybrid role combines technical expertise with strong leadership and project execution skills. The ideal candidate can translate business requirements into scalable Salesforce architectures while cross-functional teams to ensure successful project outcomes.

Key Responsibilities & Required Skills:

• Develop architecture artifacts to improve business architecture, with a focus on innovation and agility.
• Align BT strategy and planning with application development and business roadmaps.
• Provide ongoing architecture review and design support to multi-functional teams.
• Liaise with management and domain experts across the industry and within the organization to accomplish objectives.
• Systems Design: Specify and design solutions across business areas or systems. Evaluate and undertake impact analyses and present different design options on all major design projects and assess associated risks. Ensure that the system design balances functional, service quality, monitoring, observability, security, and systems management requirements.
• Buy/Build Decision Leadership: Lead efforts for new software selection including development of RFI/RFP, review and evaluation of commercial software solutions, lead proof of concepts and development of evaluation matrix through final recommendation, including hands-on execution where needed.
• Define, maintain, and manage architecture models, frameworks and artifacts (current and future state application architecture diagrams, data models, etc.).
• Business Process Improvement: Analyze multi-functional business processes; identify alternative solutions, assess feasibility, and recommend innovative approaches via technology enablement. Contribute to evaluating the factors which must be addressed in change management.
• Business Analysis: Investigate operational requirements, problems, and opportunities for multi-functional initiatives, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes. Assist in the analysis of partner objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems, and identify solution options for consideration and potential benefits.
• Relationship Management: Develop and handle expectations for communication channels and/or partner groups. Initiate communications between key contributors and stakeholders(includes Technical and Non Technical audience), lead multi-functional solution architecture by working with other solution architects. Facilitate open communication and discussion between partners.
• Data Analysis: understand corporate data requirements/policy’s, and apply data analysis, data modeling and quality assurance techniques, to establish, modify or maintain data structures and their associated components in and across business areas/ applications of expertise. Provide advice and guidance to BSAs/Developers and others using the data structures and associated components.
• Scoping/Effort Estimates: contribute to solution scoping and effort sizing with all multi-functional teams.
• Research: stay informed on technology/industry trends and product roadmaps to make informed solution architecture recommendations.
• Contribute in creation of V2MOMs and reference architecture/blueprints for Enterprise Architecture, SDG/BPG, and ACoP.
• Handle data and artifacts in Architecture Repository for a technology domain / platform
• Leads in creation of application rationalization plan for the technology domain / platform / IT concept
• Contribute in creation of architecture and design principles & standards
• Manage data and artifacts in Architecture Repository for current project/work, system/application
• Contribute in creation of enterprise capability map and capability assessment
• Lead Application catalog for the domain in Enterprise Application Repository
• Leads in creation of application rationalization plan for the business domain
• Collaborate with TMP to prioritize and influence planned platform upgrades and features in our role of "Customer Zero" to the organization.
• Ability to lead discovery meetings to identify system requirements and establish an understanding of business processes with the client
• Experience in Salesforce (SFDC) CRM and multiple end to end implementations
• Salesforce integration experience, and experience with a variety of middleware tools
• Deep experience with Salesforce, APEX APIs, APEX Triggers, VisualForce, Apex Classes, Apex Web Services, APIs, AppExchange, and Salesforce.com s-controls
• Hands on experience configuring Salesforce.com, Workflow Alerts and Actions, and Approval Workflows
• Ability to lead the solutioning and design of the Salesforce platform, and identify gaps between current and future state
• Knowledge of Salesforce configuration and platform capabilities
• Work with developers to define and create specifications for any custom code or data migration requirements
• Ability to identify potential risks (people and technology), develop plans for mitigation, and support the change management efforts
• Proficiency in application development tools
• Quality assurance and software development expertise
• Systems integration skills
• Complex problem-solving abilities

Nice to Have:

• Prior consulting experience or client-facing project work.
• Experience in the Telecommunications Industry.

Additional Information:

• Preferred Location: Atlanta, GA
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the U.S. for any employer directly. All positions include the possibility of travel.
• The Virtus Solution is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a culture of equality, inclusion, and fairness — each foundational to our core values. We strive to create a diverse environment where each employee is encouraged to bring their unique ideas, background and experience to the workplace.