Senior Solution Architect, Salesforce Practice - Remote

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At Slipstream Life Sciences we work to streamline IT Support and provide managed solutions with a strategic consulting and global leadership management approach. Our solutions are designed exclusively for emerging pharma and biotech organizations.

Slipstream’s industry-leading solutions free clients from the demands of internal IT and allow them to rapidly advance their mission. Led by a leadership team that has been together for over 10 years, you will join a proven team, culture, and strategy to drive innovation within the IT outsourcing industry while developing your skillset with the opportunities for internal growth.

Slipstream Life Sciences is a life sciences exclusive Salesforce partner. We build commercial, clinical, and patient facing solutions for pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device organizations, and our consultants come from the industry they serve.

The Salesforce Practice delivers across Sales Cloud, Life Sciences Cloud, Health Cloud, Service Cloud, Data Cloud, and Marketing Cloud. This role sits at the center of that delivery.

We are hiring a Senior Solution Architect to own the architecture and solution design of our most complex Salesforce engagements across three domains: commercial, R&D and clinical, and patient services. You will translate business problems into defensible platform architecture, document it clearly enough that a distributed team can build from it, and stay accountable for the outcome through go live.

This is a hands on architecture role, not an oversight role. You will be in the design sessions, in the data model, in the integration specifications, and in code review. You will also lead a development team spanning onshore and offshore resources, and you will be measured in part on how much stronger those developers are twelve months from now than they are today.

• Own end to end solution architecture for Salesforce engagements across commercial, R&D and clinical, and patient services, including data model, security model, integration architecture, and platform boundary decisions.
• Lead discovery and design workshops with client business and IT stakeholders, and convert ambiguous requirements into a documented, buildable design.
• Produce and maintain the core architecture artifacts: solution design documents, reference architecture diagrams, data models, integration specifications, and technical decision logs with the rationale and alternatives captured.
• Make and defend build versus configure versus buy calls, including where an App Exchange or ISV solution is the right answer instead of custom development.
• Design integrations to the life sciences data ecosystem, including customer and product master data, claims and prescription data, HCP and HCO reference data, and downstream analytics platforms.
• Set and enforce architectural guardrails on governor limits, large data volume design, sharing and visibility, and technical debt so solutions scale past the first release.

• Serve as the senior technical owner on assigned engagements, accountable for solution quality, technical risk, and the credibility of the design in front of the client.
• Partner with delivery leads and project managers on estimation, sprint scope, sequencing, and release planning, and flag scope and technical risk early rather than at UAT.
• Own the technical portion of change orders and estimates, and stand behind the numbers you put your name on.
• Drive resolution when a build stalls, including making the call on design changes and escalating tradeoffs to practice leadership with a recommendation, not just a problem.
• Represent the solution in client architecture review boards, security reviews, and validation discussions.

• Lead the development team on your engagements, spanning onshore US and offshore India resources, including work assignment, design walkthroughs, and code review.
• Upskill developers deliberately. Build and run internal enablement on Life Sciences Cloud, Health Cloud, integration patterns, and life sciences business context, and pair junior developers on design work rather than only assigning tickets.
• Establish and improve reusable assets: design templates, accelerators, coding standards, and delivery patterns the whole practice can pull from.
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