Title: Technical Architect   

Location: Chicago Area

Company Overview

Fusion Risk Management is one of the fastest growing ISV partners in the Salesforce.com partner ecosystem. We build Force.com solutions for business continuity management, disaster recovery planning, enterprise risk management and incident management. Our customers include the Fortune 50 and medium to large enterprises across financial services, manufacturing, utilities, retail, pharmaceuticals, and high-tech industries. Our cloud-based solutions are transforming the BCM/DR and risk management industries.

Fusion is led by a seasoned team of industry professionals, each with over 25 years of experience in leading market leading companies in the business continuity, risk management, and IT fields.

Fusion is seeking to add talented individuals to its team who are inspired by the challenge of solving business problems through the thoughtful and creative use of technology. Fusion offers a challenging work environment with limitless opportunity for personal and professional growth for individuals with a passion for solving business problems using the latest cloud-based technologies. Company Website: www.fusionrm.com

Position Overview 
The Technical Architect is responsible for designing and managing the development of new features and product enhancements. The role will report to the Director of Product Management and will work closely with business analysts and developers as well as with executive leaders regarding solution design and roadmap planning. The Technical Architect will also work directly with customers to oversee the product implementation process and drive alignment of customer needs with technology architecture. The Technical Architect will bring thought leadership and design best practices to solution design and product development leveraging today’s latest technologies for security, integration, mobile app development and product deployment.

Objectives:

• Design technical architectures for new features and products that may span multiple platforms and include integration and authentication across systems including mobile devices
• Work directly with the Director of Product Management to design and manage the development architecture, lifecycle and communication process to ensure the delivery of secure, scalable solutions on a consistent basis following an agile development methodology
• Articulate design considerations, trade-offs, benefits, and recommendations for a given technical architecture
• Work with account teams and clients to apply the Fusion Framework to client needs to position the Fusion Framework as “best in class” in complex pre-sales settings.
• Plan and manage data migrations from other database systems or spreadsheets
• Achieve Salesforce.com Technical Architect certification

Skills and Experience

• B.S. Degree or higher in a Computer Science or Software Engineering
• 4-6 years relevant professional experience in design and development of technology solutions for enterprise applications
• Prior enterprise Salesforce.com and Force.com experience. (Salesforce.com CRM Admin, Developer, Technical / Solution Architect)
• Developer and Advanced Developer certifications are preferred
• Minimum of one year of relevant development experience building an enterprise application or solution specifically using Apex and Visualforce
• Experience in a leadership role on development and implementation projects providing direction to junior developers and business analysts
• Professional experience in a QA development environment, including development/staging/production (or similar) deployment cycles
• Knowledge of Agile development practices, particularly sprint planning and assessment

Please send resume to srichardson@fusionrm.com

Local candidates preferred. We are unable to sponsor Visas.