When you join Daimler, you become an agent of change within our global community of people working to create a cleaner, safer, and more efficient world for today and tomorrow. Through innovation at all levels, our teams ensure our world-changing brands continue to increase the quality of life and the business success of our customers, their customers, and the world around them. The Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) brand portfolio is second to none, and includes Freightliner Trucks, Western Star Trucks, Detroit engines and components, Thomas Built Buses and Freightliner Custom Chassis.

We are the undisputed leader in the commercial vehicle market and the industry’s technology trendsetter. Empowered by purpose, DTNA employees drive a Technology Revolution through innovative products and a customer-centric culture. Our dedication to our customers and society does not end once our products hit the road. That’s because we believe that business success and social responsibility go hand in hand. We immerse ourselves in our customer’s experience, and support the environmental responsibilities of our sites to ensure our products are the reliable, sustainable and the desired tools of the future.

Job Overview
This position is responsible to bring DTNA’s Salesforce application to the next technical level. The role is responsible to define technical standards as well as architectural principles that enforces Usability, Scalability, Maintainability, Availability, Extensibility, and Security. Key areas of expertise are Security Management, Data Management and Integration Management. The Salesforce CoE (Center of Excellence) Junior Technical architect will support facilitating technical design sessions; drive architectural alignment with the enterprise architecture team; estimate Salesforce demand intake requests, architect and document technical solutions aligned with DTNA’s business objectives; identify gaps between DTNA’s current and desired end states and challenge existing solution implementations in regard to architecture.
The Junior Technical Architect will be part of Daimler’s Salesforce CoE Central Team. The objective of the Salesforce CoE Central Team is to supervise Salesforce projects, to engage with business as well as 3rd party vendors on new features and opportunities across the Salesforce landscape. Overall, the success of this role ensures that DTNA can deliver the best customer experience through our network and services. In collaboration with key business stakeholders, s/he is an innovative thinker that drives digital solutions and daily operations to further support our market leadership in the truck market.

Responsibilities
- Drive the creation of application and technical design documents which leverage Salesforce best practices and effectively integrate Salesforce into the DTNA’s infrastructure
- Follow and help define technical standards as well as architectural principles; Usability, Scalability, Maintainability, Availability, Extensibility, and Security.
- Perform code reviews during projects to ensure quality and appropriate design patterns are followed
- Translate business requirements into well-architected solutions that best leverage the Salesforce platform
- Support technical design sessions; architect and document technical solutions aligned with DTNA’s business objectives; identify gaps between DTNA’s current and desired end states
- Provide guidance on application and integration development best practices, Enterprise Architecture standards, functional and technical solution architecture & design, environment management, testing, and Salesforce Platform education.
- Troubleshoot key implementation issues and demonstrate ability to drive to successful resolution. Support the evaluation of business and technical requirements.
- Support the development lifecycle to ensure the delivery of highly secure solutions that are optimized for performance and built to scale; articulate design considerations, trade-offs, benefits, and recommendations for a technical architecture.
- Challenge existing solution implementations in regards of architecture, speed, implementation approach
- Assess and ensure data quality and process conformity as well as systematically derive improvement measure
- Work as key Salesforce liaison with IT technical resources in areas related to Master Data, Middleware Solutions, Customer Portals, Mobility & Analytics
- Working collaboratively and having very strong communications skills, especially in teaching complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking