Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago · 9 hours ago
Salesforce Solution Architect
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$126K/yr - $221K/yr
7+ years expFederal Home Loan Bank of Chicago is a bank for banks and other financial institutions, focused on being a strategic partner for their members. The Salesforce Solution Architect defines technology solutions to meet business needs, working closely with stakeholders to ensure alignment with enterprise technology strategy and architecture.
Banking
Responsibilities
Contribute to the success of business initiatives and significantly influence the strategic direction of technology projects
Enhance overall business efficiency and effectiveness
Ensure consistency and coherence across the Bank's technology landscape
Business Domain Needs Analysis: Develop an understanding of relevant business functions and associated challenges, translate complex business requirements into technical solutions
Solution Development: Propose architecture solutions to solve business needs, considering factors like cost, performance, scalability and reuse, operational efficiency and security in alignment with enterprise technology strategy and architectures, and documented patterns and standards
Proof of Concept Development: Build prototypes and proof-of-concepts to validate solution feasibility
Technology Selection: Work with business and technology stakeholders, technology vendors and implementation partners to ensure that technologies are selected, designed and implemented in alignment with Bank policies, standards, and enterprise architectures
Documentation and Knowledge Transfer: Create architecture documentation that successfully describes a proposed solution, effectively communicate the solution to all stakeholders
Technology Governance: Participate in technology governance processes, present proposed solutions to and gain approval by the Architecture Review Board (ARB). Act as technical approver as part of the Change Approval Board (CAB)
Solution Implementation Oversight: Guide delivery teams during implementation, ensuring alignment with the approved architecture
Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to communicate technical concepts and address concerns
Mentorship and Coaching: Provide mentoring and guidance to delivery team members and Architecture teammates on business domain knowledge as well as technical topics
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
5+ years of experience in a leading role delivering Salesforce projects using Sales/Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Experience Cloud
7+ years of experience in information technology roles, with 1-3 years experience in architecture roles (enterprise or solution architecture)
Demonstrated ability to communicate the complexities of technical programs
Experience modeling system diagrams, functional processes and interfaces between systems
Salesforce certifications: Admin, Advanced Admin, Platform Builder
Communication: Excellent oral and written communication, can effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
Leadership: Guide technical teams and facilitate decision-making
Influencing: Effectively build consensus, successfully motivate others to move forward with a proposed architecture solution
Technical Expertise: Deep understanding of relevant technologies (cloud computing, databases, networking, software development methodologies, domain driven design, event driven architecture)
Critical Thinking: Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, analyzing available facts, evidence, observations and arguments to make sound conclusions and informed choices
Business Acumen: Thorough knowledge of supported business domains and processes
Innovation: Generate creative solutions that incorporate emerging technologies and business trends
Teaming: Work well with teammates across the organization, manage conflict and constructively resolve issues, adapt to and rally personnel around change
Interpersonal: Strength in rapport-building, listening and questioning
Self-Direction: Highly self-motivated, adept at managing own time and workloads, effectively prioritizes and executes on work, sets appropriate boundaries around role, actively negotiates with multiple stakeholders to adjust workload, works independently with minimal supervision, takes ownership of tasks and responsibilities
Preferred
Experience working in a financial institution is desirable
Experience working in a regulated industry is desirable
AWS certifications are a plus
TOGAF certification is desirable
Benefits
Retirement program (401k and Pension)
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Lifestyle Spending Account
Competitive PTO plan
11 paid holidays per year
Company
Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago
Our Mission: To partner with our members in Illinois and Wisconsin to provide them competitively priced funding, a reasonable return on their investment in the Bank, and support for their community investment activities.
201-500 employees
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Growth StageLeadership Team
Eric Geiger
Chief Technology Officer
Mike Zeifert, CFA
SVP, Chief Credit Officer
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