Senior or Lead Architect

Career Opportunities with Tech Bridge, Inc.

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Tech Bridge is a nonprofit that arms other nonprofits on the frontline of alleviating the causes of poverty and technology that will allow them to expand the impact of their mission for the millions of men, women, and children who suffer from lack of access to shelter, food, employment, education, healthcare, and financial literacy.

We are a group of technology-minded, people-focused problem solvers. We believe the best way to eliminate generational poverty is by helping to grow the impact of the nonprofits who have their boots on the ground. The Tech Bridge mission is to break the cycle of generational poverty through the innovative use of technology to transform nonprofit and community impact. We fulfill our mission by providing nonprofits engaged in poverty alleviation with improved capabilities, data, and operations;

enhancing agency collaboration through data and resource sharing; and improving collective action among communities through performance metrics, shared outcomes, and insightful analytics. Tech Bridge works to give people the best chance of avoiding poverty through technology enhancements that build capacity and facilitate collaboration within communities. We support organizations that work within our four pillars:
Hunger Relief, Homeless Support, Social Justice, and Workforce Development.

About the Role

Tech Bridge is seeking a seasoned Lead Architect who has expertise in leading all levels of technology consulting projects, including sales, requirements, design, development, delivery, and support – both for client-facing and internal projects. The Lead Architect will possess a deep understanding of how software can be used to solve nonprofit business issues.

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of Salesforce experience, including experience launching complex Salesforce deployments. The candidate must be self-driven, have strong critical thinking skills, and have extensive experience developing technical solutions to real-world business problems and translating technical challenges and solutions to leadership. This role is adept at identifying the core need or problem to be solved, which is often different from the problem stated.

Core Competencies

• Proven ability to lead the identification and the technical approach to be used on customer projects and manage the system development process including the development of a strategic plan, systems analysis, technical design, configuration, testing, and acceptance of a system and/or application (includes the creation of all required documentation)
• Experienced in change management, understanding the system development lifecycle and project management
• Proven experience in data R&D or an associated development background
• Extensive agile (Scrum/XP) and traditional software delivery experience in global/offshore delivery models
• Designs software architecture of given domain
• Manages and enhances software/data architecture best practices, standards, patterns, and reference architectures to design for the given domain
• Leads with the design and development of project and deployment roadmaps
• Performs specific analysis/design efforts as needed and constructs responses for consumption at senior stakeholder levels
• Experience in Information Technology (IT) delivery or architecture, including experience as a Data Modeller and/or Database Administrator, application design and programming
• Experienced in financial reporting, specifically the design of a reporting architecture that facilitates the creation, publication, and distribution of reports both on a regular basis and ad-hoc (beneficial)
• Able to demonstrate Leadership skills to manage ad-hoc analysis or design deep dive
• Provide fourth-level technical support, diagnosing, troubleshooting, and restoring systems to service

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements from client interviews, meetings, whiteboarding & documentation analysis to provide oversight of the solution throughout the project; ensure clients can make educated decisions on recommended services/products for sign-off
• Process design (flow…