Financial Force Solution Architect

JOB OVERVIEW

A highly proactive person with the ability to provide high-level technical guidance and support to project teams and our customers. The Solution Architect with a strong understanding of the FinancialForce Accelerate and the confidence to recommend architectural best practices. Must possess a deep knowledge of the FinancialForce product and roadmap. Having experience in transitioning from other PSA tool like Changepoint to FinancialForce is must.

SUMMARY OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Experience implementing, designing, building, and enhancing features on Financial force platform on Accounting, Billing, Project Management, Time & Expense Management and Revenue Management modules.
• Perform key components of remote implementations of the FinancialForce ERP applications. Components may include installation, configuration, training, report writing, data migration and general support.
• Experience in migration from Changepoint to FinancialForce is desirable.
• Develop and configure FinancialForce PSA tool via the FinancialForce managed package.
• Work closely with business systems analysts and developers as part of an Agile team to design, build, and deliver solutions.
• Drive solution design for projects and production support working with IT and Business SMEs.
• Use knowledge of tools and best practices for development and deployment of enterprise applications, including source code management, code review, and unit testing.
• Keep up to date with new releases and improvements in FinancialForce PSA and Salesforce.
• Perform functional and technical system activities including business process configuration, coordinate testing, work with offshore team and vendor on development activities, manage project queue and scheduled releases etc.
• Collaborate with professional services and Technical Support team working with the Onsite BA to projects and production.
• Adopt Agile methodologies to work collaboratively with others.
• Facilitate unit, integration and user testing including documentation of test scenarios and oversight of testing progress for projects and production support.
• Update business process flows.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:        

• Overall 10 years of experience & 5 years as a Solution architect for FinancialForce covering all the modules. 
• Should be familiar with ERP, Service Integration, and other SaaS applications.
• Knowledge of Salesforce platform.
• Experience in Enterprise Solution Architecture, Infrastructure, Business process applications, Data Analytics.
• Ability to analyse complex business and technical problems, synthesize solutions and communicate options to all stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience working as part of an Agile development team.
• Good and clear communication skills to be able work productively across onsite/offshore teams.
• Should be able to Project Manage small projects as needed.

CERTIFICATIONS:           

• Salesforce Certification is a plus.

EXPERIENCE NEEDED:   

• Graduate university degree in computer science, computer engineering, or similar
• Overall 10 years of Domain level/Implementation experience over FinancialForce Accounting, Revenue Recognition and Professional Services Automation.