Senior IT Architect (Salesforce)

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-level Salesforce solutions, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
• Establish and maintain a robust Salesforce architecture framework, encompassing integration strategies and application design patterns.
• Ensure best practices for data governance, security, and compliance are implemented across the Salesforce platform.
• Stay current with Salesforce releases, features, and industry trends, recommending strategic improvements to leverage new capabilities.
• Architect hybrid and multi-cloud environments, integrating Salesforce with on-premises and other cloud platforms.
• Define, document, and evangelize the data integration patterns between Salesforce and the eco-system (AWS, GCP, SaaS, PaaS, and On-Prem).
• Create and maintain detailed architectural artifacts (e.g., architecture diagrams, design documents, data models) to visualize, communicate, and document the cloud solutions and architectures using tools like Lucidchart.
• Document decision-making processes, trade-offs, and rationale behind architecture choices to support future scaling, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Develop a unified architecture that is scalable across the organization and ensures the use of industry and enterprise technology standards.
• Translate industry technology direction to business value and serve as a key advisor to stakeholders, providing research and innovative approaches.
• Accountable for developing high-level business cases and influencing senior leadership, business partners, and stakeholders on technical solutions.
• Research and evaluate new technologies and their potential application to IT strategies and business plans.
• Analyze systems and processes from end to end, partnering with IT and business colleagues.
• Provide guidance and enterprise-wide influence to ensure solutions are well engineered, operable, maintainable, scalable, and delivered on schedule.
• Advise on strategic partnerships, vendor selection, and acquisitions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of overall experience in an enterprise environment.
• 5+ years of Salesforce Architect experience.
• Extensive knowledge of Salesforce products (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Loyalty Cloud, Data Cloud).
• Experience with integration tools/techniques (MuleSoft, REST APIs, Events) in an enterprise environment.
• Salesforce Architect certification.
• Experience with AWS and GCP cloud platforms.
• Great communication skills and ability to influence.
• Must be authorized to work in the US; sponsorships are not available.