Senior Solution Architect

Responsibilities

Lead as a consultative partner, naturally guiding Financial Institutions through their digital transformation journey by combining deep technical knowledge with exceptional communication skills to navigate complex organizational change and technology adoption challenges.

Drive 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 standards.

Architect 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 stack.

Apply 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 success.

Bridge 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 execution.

Develop 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 met.

Analyse 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 impediments.

Collaborate 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 practices.

Empower customers as the nCino trusted advisor, promoting change and continuous improvement philosophies to ensure optimal user adoption of new business technologies.

Contribute 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 solutions.

Coach and mentor junior team members to hone their craft as nCino experts and world class consultants.

• 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 Data Loader and/or industry common middleware tools (e.g., Informatica, Mulesoft, Kafka).
• Environment and release management experience (Dev Ops) leveraging Application Lifecycle Management, CI/CD, Testing, and Source Control tools/processes (e.g., Auto Rabit, 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…