Associate Director, Salesforce Technical Architect - Life Sciences

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As a Senior Manager - Technical Architect within Deloitte Digital, you will combine your extensive real-world implementation experience in the Life Science industry and your deep Salesforce technical knowledge with teamwork, leadership and client delivery skills to bring the best out of our people and enable us to solve our clients most complex business challenges.

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Our Salesforce practice is part of a wider Deloitte Digital community that joins together many different skills to deliver amazing digital transformations and customer experiences for our clients across both the public and private sectors. In this role, you’ll work with outstanding digital talent across disciplines to imagine, deliver and run forward-thinking, business focussed and experience-driven solutions for iconic brands. You’ll expand the impact we make with our clients, growing our business without compromising on our quality, integrity and culture.

As an Associate Director, you will:

• Lead workstreams on large-scale programmes, acting as a Technical Leader for other technical team members as part of a project or client engagement, including managing expectations, quality, task distribution and being accountable for all technical outputs on the engagement
• Lead workshops to understand and document client needs from a Salesforce and wider connecting enterprise architecture perspective, leveraging knowledge of new and upcoming features available in the ecosystem, as well as limitations, risks and considerations, to support business and technical decision making
• Lead the development and physical design of solutions, guide the development team, and oversee required activities to ensure the system's architectural integrity
• Translate and communicate technical requirements and solutions to the business using story-based narratives; clearly present strategies, options and recommendations to executive level stakeholders
• Independently lead pre-sales activities, shaping our end-to-end proposition and translating clients’ high level business goals into innovative architectural solutions with an awareness of the commercials; documenting and presenting these solutions to both technical and non-technical internal and client audiences
• Advise clients on migration approaches from Veeva CRM to Salesforce Life Science Cloud and lead these technical implementations
• Mentor and coach more junior technical talent, as well as defining and driving the continuous improvement of industry-differentiating architectural standards, approaches, frameworks and tools
• Build a broad internal and external network, advocating for technology and engineering practices both within and outside the firm

Connect to your skills and professional experience

The following experience is essential:

• Significant technical experience as a Technical Lead and Architect, with experience of hands-on development of custom code solutions on Salesforce using Apex, Visualforce, Aura and LWC with an applied understanding of development standards and optimisation techniques.
• Significant industry experience implementing Salesforce solutions in Health Care and Life Sciences.
• Experience with Veeva CRM and familiarity with Veeva Vault
• Experience with Salesforce Health Cloud and familiarity with Life Sciences Cloud
• Deep architectural understanding and experience in:
• Integration approaches, patterns and standards used in the Salesforce landscape such as event-based, ETL, ESB, point-to-point, REST, SOAP and Canvas
• Security and privacy such as SSO, user provisioning and management, OAuth flows, encryption of data at REST
• Wider technology landscape within large scale, global organisations (this could be industry specific)
• Event driven architectures both on the Salesforce platform and in the wider tech landscape such as Kafka
• Relational database theories and design concepts, including performance, security and data migration considerations
• Analytics capabilities, MI and BI including enabling technologies on the Salesforce platform and other common applications within a large scale, global enterprise technology landscape.
• Experience in SDLC, DevOps and DevSecOps patterns and enterprise tools, as well as knowledge of what the widely recognised software engineering best practices are and how they can be applied in the context of a Salesforce solution (including CI/CD, Trunk based development and feature toggles)
• Experience working on projects executed using an Agile delivery framework including typical variations; knowledge of alternative project delivery methods

The successful applicant will also be:

• Confident and articulate in your communication style, with excellent presentation, verbal and written communication skills that you can flex accordingly to help others – whether that be technical, non-technical, colleagues or clients – understand and implement the solutions that you and your team design
• A brilliant listener, building rapport and developing trusted relationships with a diverse set of senior client technical stakeholders including technology leadership

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Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

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-Dan, T&T

"I get to work on projects that help clients in a sector I feel truly passionate about.”

-Rhiannon, T&T

“Everyone always says “it’s the people,” and that’s true. Working for a brand you feel proud of feels pretty good too. And you don’t have any stress about fitting into a particular stereotype, because there are so many different types of people in Deloitte Digital.”

-Gillian, T&T

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

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