Principal Salesforce Technical Architect
Meet CarGurus—the #1 visited online car shopping website in the US. At CarGurus, we’re building the world’s most trusted and transparent automotive marketplace where it’s easy to find great deals from top-rated dealers.
Founded in 2006 by Langley Steinert (co-founder of TripAdvisor), CarGurus is a technology company with a passion for data and its power to simplify every aspect of the car shopping experience. Using proprietary technology, search algorithms and innovative data analytics, we provide unbiased validation on pricing, dealer reputation and vehicle history.
CarGurus’ mission is to build innovative technology that will continue to drive our mission forward as the world’s number one most trusted and transparent Automotive Marketplace.
On the Enterprise Applications Team, the Principal Salesforce Technical Architect will serve as a thought leader in establishing in-house development talent within the CRM and Force.com applications.
What You’ll Do:
- Create and maintain technology strategy and roadmaps for various business areas
- Manage the technical aspects of development teams to deliver full lifecycle SFDC implementations.
- Drive architecture and design technology solutions for solving business problems, while authoring technical specifications and detailed design documents.
- Implement functionality as a hands-on expert, especially in technically challenging projects, providing solutions for performance optimization, security and high availability of the applications.
- Mentor a team of developers and administrators, establish required processes and implement procedures for development and testing to ensure high quality technical solutions.
Who You Are:
- 10+ years of experience in increasing levels of responsibility developing solutions & applications
- 6+ years on Salesforce and Force.com platforms as part of implementation teams.
- 6+ years of Salesforce CRM implementation experience, with 3+ full cycle implementations, including all aspects of Sales and Customer Support processes, CPQ engines for subscription management, price optimization engines, and Heroku.
- 2+ years of experience in Salesforce Technical Architect Role.
- Solid understanding of IT systems including system design, Object Oriented Design, databases, programming and integration concepts specifically HTML, browsers, JavaScript, Web Services, AJAX, ESB.
- Proven track record of developing an organization and achieving results through others.
- Strong oral/written communication, presentation, and organizational skills.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills for driving strategic initiatives through diverse organizations. Excellent customer service skills.
- Ability to work within multiple work streams at one time.
- Bachelor’s degree. Salesforce Technical Architect certification.
CarGurus Culture:
At the core of our company culture is a spirit of innovation, curiosity and collaboration. True to our start-up roots, we’re nimble, flexible and hardworking. We have a great respect for testing and learning and a healthy aversion to scheduling meetings to discuss meetings. Lunch is catered daily. Gym membership is free. Foosball and ping pong are played often. Now a publicly-traded company, we’re as committed as ever to cultivating the culture that got us here.
In addition to the US, CarGurus operates sites in Canada, the UK and Germany with other markets on the horizon. Our offices are located in Cambridge, MA, Detroit, MI and Dublin, Ireland. If you’d like to learn more, please visit our careers page.