Solution Architect at CodeScience, Inc. (San Francisco, CA) (allows remote)
Job Description
Location: National - preference to Chattanooga, San Francisco Bay, Atlanta, Los Angeles
Role:
Solution Architects are responsible for making software development projects come to life and convincing clients that CodeScience has the expertise to build them. In this position, you'll lead discovery engagements to identify the roles each company will play, assess risks and technologies, establish a product roadmap, and narrow vague requirements down to a defined scope with a preferred solution path. The keys to this job are to ask questions and learn as much as you can from the client, teach them as much as they can absorb, and start solving problems as soon as you walk in the door.
Success Predictors:
- You savor solving unstructured problems with no single correct answer
- You're a Jedi of the give-and-take - shifting easily between listening to others and sharing your knowledge
- You frequently find yourself explaining concepts while wielding a dry erase marker
- You have a history of designing software for usability, scalability, and performance on a variety of software platforms
- You craft clear and intelligent communications based on the technical and business acumen of your audience
- You've worked with big ERP systems and are ready to start delivering value quickly instead of taking part in a twenty body, three year, multi-million dollar experiment in corporate inefficiency
- You're bored silly with deploying Salesforce CRM, but get excited about doing the custom stuff on Force.com
- You've worked at one of our bigger competitors and are ready to go where work quality and employee happiness reign over the profit-at-any-cost paradigm
- You have taken part in the development of an AppExchange product
- You spot bugs, UI improvements, and better ways to present information on almost every website or software application you use
- You motivate coworkers to work smarter and continue learning
- You care more about content than form, unless it's about UI design, then you care about elegance and powerful simplicity
- You have started your own company or been an independent contractor at some point in your career
- You wake up in the morning thinking about how to make software better
Skills Requirements
Requirements:
- College degree - better yet, you left college because it was slowing you down
- 10+ years of software industry experience
- Familiarity with Force.com, Heroku, AWS, or other SaaS platforms
- Deep understanding of web application design and secure web authentication protocols
- Salesforce DEV 401 certification (bonus)
- Salesforce Technical Architect (we’ll pay you handsomely)
Responsibilities:
- Design cloud based software applications and communicate that design to clients, product managers, and developers
- Rapidly distill software requirements from prospects and customers and offer potential solution options
- Assess technical, political, financial, personnel, and other risks to project success and incorporate risk mitigation into estimates and project design
- Independently run a software consulting sales cycle
- Run discovery engagements and prepare reports of findings
- Prepare build lists and project estimates
- Guide product managers and developers through completing your designs
About CodeScience, Inc.
CodeScience, Inc. is a provider of technology and professional services that enable organizations to deploy strategic business processes into the cloud. Our primary focus is building on the Force.com platform. Using equal parts precision and play, we create products for Salesforce ISV Partners and tackle complex Salesforce implementations. We also work with other cloud platforms such asHeroku andBox.
The team mostly works from home or at our headquarters office in Chattanooga. Our homies, the lucky ones getting the home office allowance, are clustered around the San Francisco Bay area with a few rogue consultants in Atlanta and Los Angeles.
Benefits are solid, travel is limited, and we don’t track vacation time. More important, we work on some of the most challenging projects in our little niche of the software industry. We're excited to tackle the projects that others shy from.
If you're smart, experienced, and driven, then you'd fit right in at CodeScience.
Joel Test score: 8 out of 12
The Joel Test is a twelve-question measure of the quality of a software team.
- Do you use source control?
- Can you make a build in one step?
- Do you make daily builds?
- Do you have a bug database?
- Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
- Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
- Do you have a spec?
- Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
- Do you use the best tools money can buy?
- Do you have testers?
- Do new candidates write code during their interview?
- Do you do hallway usability testing?
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