Senior Solution Architect

nCino

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 12 days ago
nCino offers exciting career opportunities for individuals who want to join the worldwide leader in cloud banking.We're seeking an exceptional Solutions Architect who combines deep technical expertise with outstanding consultative skills to guide our clients through their transformation journey. In this highly visible customer-facing role, you'll be the trusted advisor who bridges the gap between business vision and technical reality, designing and building scalable solutions that revolutionize how financial institutions operate.
As our Solutions Architect, you'll leverage your expertise in Salesforce platform to architect solutions that enable true business agility. You'll provide strategic guidance on digital transformation initiatives while ensuring technical excellence in every implementation.ResponsibilitiesLead as a consultative partner, naturally guiding Financial Instututions through their digital transformation journey by combining deep technical knowledge with exceptional communication skills to navigate complex organizational change and technology adoption challengesDrive solution design excellence through fundamental understanding and ability to utilize business process driven design, object-oriented programming, data models, and service-oriented enterprise architecture/technology stacks to translate functional business use cases into scalable and maintainable technical solutions that are aligned with nCino gold standardsArchitect enterprise-grade solutions by collaborating with Technical Architects to design high-level enterprise architectures that consider the full technology ecosystem, integration patterns, data flows, and long-term scalability requirements across the entire financial services technology stackApply high degree of technical expertise on the nCino product with Salesforce declarative and programmatic automation tools, data integration and deployment tools/APIs, and enterprise application architecture best practices, in both a consultative and hands-on fashion to ensure a healthy technical ecosystem and long-term customer successBridge the technical gap by reading and understanding Apex code components, effectively communicating with developers to explain requirements, review implementations, and ensure code quality aligns with architectural vision - serving as the translator between business needs and technical executionDevelop and document POCs (Proof of Concepts) for net new nCino release functionality, unique project business cases, or validating architecture limits on the SFDC platform to ensure business needs and product scalability are metAnalyse and troubleshoot technical issues and defects collaboratively with team members during build/QA working sessions utilizing a variety of tools to quickly mitigate project blockers and impedimentsCollaborate and consult with project stakeholders to perform technical quality reviews of in-progress builds per sprint, ensuring business requirements adhere to nCino and Salesforce best practices that align to proven technical solutions for overall implementation quality. Validates overall design and fit gap analysis to identify technical challenges, process improvements, and business risk trade-offs against nCino and financial services industry best practicesEmpower customers as the nCino trusted advisor, promoting change and continuous improvement philosophies to ensure optimal user adoption of new business technologiesContribute to innovation within the team by identifying unique and complex business cases and create re-usable solution components, tools, processes, and documentation to benefit internal stakeholders and ongoing projects for evolving functional use cases and technical solutionsCoach and mentor junior team members to hone their craft as nCino experts and world class consultantsRequired Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years’ experience or combination of client-facing consulting and/or Salesforce/SaaS enterprise architecture or related application configuration technical experience
  • Salesforce Administrator certification, or the ability to obtain within 3 months of employment
  • Salesforce App Builder certification, or the ability to obtain within 6 months of employment
  • One of the Salesforce Architects Certification, or the ability to obtain within 12 months of employment
  • Declarative automation/tooling solutioning experience (e.g. Flow)
  • Data management modeling, querying (SQL, SOQL, SOSL), conversion, and integration experience leveraging DataLoader and/or industry common middleware tools (e.g. Informatica, Mulesoft, Kafka)
  • Environment and release management experience (DevOps) leveraging Application Lifecycle Management, CI/CD, Testing, and Source Control tools/processes (e.g. AutoRabit, Copado, SFDX)
  • Sharing and visibility security experience (e.g. Role Hierarchy, Sharing Settings/Rules, Profiles, Permission Sets/Groups)
  • Agile project methodology and/or Enterprise project life cycle(s) experience and associated tools (e.g. Smartsheet, Jira, ServiceNow)
  • Assist functional solutioning during project design and build sprints by leveraging up to date financial services domain subject matter expertise, knowledge, and processes as it relates to the primary business value of the nCino product
  • Strong analytical and presentation skills to articulate findings in a clear and concise manner, to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Passionate and enthusiastic team player that collaboratively delivers a high-quality solution to financial services customers with an all-in commitment to ensure long-term customer satisfaction
  • Be a results-driven self-starter who takes initiative, solicits, and listens to feedback, while working effectively in a rapidly changing environment
Desired Qualifications
  • Salesforce Advanced Administrator, Salesforce Developer 1 certifications preferred
  • Experience with Salesforce Financial Services Cloud/Sales Cloud or core Salesforce CRM objects (e.g. Accounts/Person Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities)
  • Analysis of custom programmatic automation, integration, and GUI experience (e.g. Apex, VisualForce and/or Lightning Web Components)
Identity and access management experience (e.g. SSO, JIT Handler)If you thrive in a high-energy, entrepreneurial environment, we invite you to share your passion, ideas and excitement at nCino.nCino provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability, genetics or other protected groups. In addition to federal law requirements, nCino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.nCino is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, nCino will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at .Our commitment to inclusion and equality includes a strong belief that the diversity of our team is instrumental to our success. We strive to create workplaces where employees are empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.

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