Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
The Business Systems team is responsible for building and improving the many systems that enable Anduril to accomplish its mission. Anduril’s supply chain, accounting, sales & growth, engineering, modeling & simulation, field maintenance, manufacturing, and many more teams rely on the technology built and maintained by our team. We work across the company to ensure we have the tools and capabilities necessary for mission success.
We are looking for a Salesforce Technical Architect to join our team as we build out a robust suite of products and functionality to support our rapidly growing organization and stakeholder groups including Growth, Business Development, Legal, Investor Relations, Deployment Operations, Accounting and other teams who all use Salesforce as their “home base”. If you are passionate about bringing the very best capabilities in Salesforce to life and want to join the most mission-oriented and passionate group of coworkers you’ll ever meet, this job is for you!
Key Responsibilities:
As the Salesforce Technical Architect, you will be responsible for guiding the overall technical direction of Salesforce implementation projects. To succeed, you must possess a broad range of Salesforce technical knowledge, complemented by extensive expertise in the Salesforce platform. Your primary focus will be on designing and overseeing the delivery of complex Salesforce initiatives, from the discovery phase through to deployment. You need to be a self-motivated professional with a proactive approach and a strong passion for resolving intricate business and technology challenges. Most importantly, you have a “roll up your sleeves” mindset when it comes to coding on a regular basis alongside our team of Salesforce software developers, with a mindset on building for outcomes instead of output. Key responsibilities include:
- Partnering with the Salesforce Product Manager to ensure that the Salesforce platform is fully aligned with business objectives by maximizing the platform’s capabilities and architecting scalable solutions.
- Converting business requirements into well-architected solutions that fully utilize the capabilities of the Salesforce platform.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to define technical requirements, deliverables, and manage expectations effectively.
- Designing and customizing solutions on Salesforce Government Cloud Plus, ensuring alignment with industry best practices by staying current with new Salesforce technologies, platform enhancements, releases, and industry trends.
- Leading technical design sessions, generating POCs, documenting architectural solutions aligned with stakeholder objectives, and identify gaps between the platform’s current state and desired outcomes.
- Collaborating with developers to implement custom solutions when necessary, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
- Establishing and upholding coding standards; conducting code reviews throughout projects to maintain quality and adherence to appropriate design patterns.
- Developing and maintaining technical documentation, including system architecture, configurations, and customizations.
- Managing the technical aspects of custom development, integrations, and data migration within Salesforce implementations.
- Addressing stakeholder expectations while collaborating on feasible solutions for complex challenges.
- Partnering with our developers to code and build on our GovCloud Plus platform, including integrations between Salesforce and external applications using REST, SOAP APIs, oAuth, SSO.
Required Characteristics:
Anduril is an extremely fast-paced defense manufacturing and technology startup that is rapidly scaling itself. Our culture is one of ambition, hard work, relentless pursuit of excellence, and deliberate disruption. This is not a “clock-in, clock-out”, 9-to-5 sort of job. We can only hire people who are “in it to win it”. The successful candidate will be one who demonstrates the follow core characteristics:
- Bias for Action - they ask for forgiveness, not permission, and hate the idea of waiting around to be told what to do
- Dive Deep - they sweat the details and roll up their sleeves to uncover the root causes for systemic issues
- Ownership - they care deeply not just about their systems, but for all the business outcomes that their systems supports as well, holding themselves accountable for everything it both does and fails to do
- Agility - they change directions easily and without regret, quickly adapting to shifting business priorities
- First Principles Thinking - they approach problems and develop solutions not based on what a vendor recommends or because it’s how they did things at their last job, but from a deep appreciation of what is best for the enterprise
Qualifications:
- 10+ years Salesforce platform experience, the majority specifically with Salesforce CRM.
- 5 - 7+ years Salesforce technical architect experience.
- Expertise in one or multiple Salesforce Clouds including Sales, Service, CRM Analytics, Experience, Marketing, Data, Financial, etc.
- Expertise in defining the system architecture landscape, identifying gaps between current and desired end-states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will enable achievement of the desired business outcomes.
- Deep knowledge and experience of Salesforce development and configuration. Specifically:
- Expertise in systems architecture and ability to design scalable performance-driven solutions.
- Expertise in key design patterns, data modeling, and large data volume limitations and best practices
- Expertise in data sharing and visibility considerations and how these play into platform architecture
- Understanding of platform authentication patterns (SAML, SSO, OAuth)
- Expertise in environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies
- Experience with platform security capabilities (Named Credentials, TLS, SSL)
- Understand core technical principles of Salesforce for integration, networking, infrastructure, security, data modeling and DevOps.
- Advanced knowledge of Apex, Trigger and Lightning Flow Design Patterns and development experience
- Extensive LWC, JavaScript, Web components, HTML design and development experience.
- Knowledge of data integration tools and experience integrating Salesforce with different business systems (ETL, ESB, reporting, etc.)
- Exposure and experience in Einstein and AI product capabilities.
- Strong background in design/development of large web-based or client server systems, or complete software product lifecycle exposure
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented analysis and design and database design.
- Up-to-date knowledge and training on latest Salesforce release, features and developments.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams.
- Exceptional organizational and communication skills (both written and oral).
- Strong preference for Salesforce certifications - Certified Platform Developer I, and Certified Platform Developer II, Technical Architect, with Data Architect, System Architect, and Application Architect a plus.
- Aerospace and Defense industry experience a major plus.
- Bonus points for ERP integrations experience.
US Salary Range
$174,000—$261,000 USD
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
- Platinum Healthcare Benefits: For U.S. roles, we offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
- For UK roles, Private Medical Insurance (PMI): Anduril will cover the full cost of the insurance premium for an employee and dependents.
- For AUS roles, Private health plan through Bupa: Coverage is fully subsidized by Anduril.
- Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered by Anduril, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
- Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a holiday hiatus in December, and highly competitive PTO plans.
- 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave to care for a family member, bond with your baby, or tend to your own medical condition.
- Family Planning & Parenting Support: Fertility (eg, IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carrier coverage with additional benefits and resources to provide support from planning to parenting.
- Mental Health Resources: We provide free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy, life coaching, and more. Additional work-life services, such as free legal and financial support, available to you as well.
- A professional development stipend is available to all Andurilians.
- Daily Meals and Provisions: For many of our offices this means breakfast, lunch and fully stocked micro-kitchens.
- Company-funded commuter benefits available based on your region.
- Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility).
- 401(k) retirement savings plan - both a traditional and Roth 401(k). (US roles only)
The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.
Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Anduril team is made up of incredibly talented and unique individuals, who together are disrupting industry norms by creating new paths towards the future of defense technology. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the CA Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. We actively encourage members of recognized minorities, women, Veterans, and those with disabilities to apply, and we work to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all applicants throughout the interview process. If you are someone passionate about working on problems that have a real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you!
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Anduril is a defense products company. Unlike most defense companies, we don’t wait for our customers to tell us what they need. We identify problems, privately fund our R&D and sell finished products off the shelf. Ideas are turned into deployed capabilities in months, not years.
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