As a Salesforce Solution Architect, you'll lead the design and implementation of complex Salesforce solutions, ensuring scalability and alignment with business goals. You'll provide architectural guidance, mentor team members, and ensure successful project delivery while driving innovation. You will also evaluate best practices, collaborate with stakeholders, and oversee data management and governance.
About the Role:
We are looking for an experienced Salesforce Solution Architect to join our team and lead the design and implementation of complex Salesforce solutions across our organization. You will play a crucial role in shaping the architecture of our Salesforce environment, ensuring it is scalable, robust, and aligned with business goals. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a highly collaborative environment and influence the Salesforce strategy while driving innovation and best practices.
Who You Are:
- Experienced Salesforce Architect with a deep understanding of Salesforce products, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Lightning Experience.
- Strong strategic mindset with a proven track record of designing solutions that meet both technical and business requirements.
- Expert in aligning business needs with Salesforce capabilities, ensuring optimal use of the platform.
- Skilled in leading cross-functional teams, providing high-level direction on complex Salesforce projects.
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment and understanding across all levels.
- Focused on delivering successful implementations, driving innovation and business value.
- Proficient in providing architectural guidance, ensuring scalable and sustainable Salesforce solutions.
- Experienced in leading complex projects, ensuring they meet deadlines, budgets, and quality standards.
- Expertise in transforming business processes through Salesforce solutions to optimize operational efficiency and customer engagement.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead the design and implementation of end-to-end Salesforce solutions that meet business needs and scalability requirements.
- Define the overall architecture for Salesforce implementations, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
- Evaluate and recommend best practices for Salesforce configuration, customization, and integration with other systems.
- Develop technical roadmaps and strategies for the evolution of the Salesforce platform to ensure long-term sustainability.
- Architect solutions for complex business processes, ensuring that both functional and non-functional requirements are met.
- Provide technical leadership to project teams, ensuring that design, development, and deployment follow architectural principles.
- Mentor and guide Salesforce developers, administrators, and other technical staff on best practices and solution architecture.
- Conduct code reviews, provide feedback, and ensure adherence to quality standards.
- Collaborate with other architects, developers, and teams to design integrations, data models, and workflows across various systems.
- Work closely with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into effective Salesforce solutions.
- Act as the primary technical point of contact for Salesforce-related projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical feasibility.
- Lead workshops and discussions with stakeholders to gather and prioritize requirements, ensuring that solutions meet business and technical needs.
- Design and implement integrations between Salesforce and other enterprise systems (ERP, Marketing Automation tools, etc.)
- Define data models and ensure data consistency, integrity, and quality across systems.
- Oversee the design and management of data migrations and synchronization processes.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest Salesforce products, features, and best practices to drive innovation and solution optimization.
- Recommend and implement improvements to existing Salesforce solutions to enhance functionality and performance.
- Evaluate new Salesforce technologies and third-party solutions that can enhance the platform’s capabilities.
- Ensure that Salesforce solutions are designed with a focus on scalability, security, and performance.
- Establish and maintain governance practices for Salesforce development, ensuring adherence to architectural guidelines, compliance, and security standards.
- Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for Salesforce implementations and ensure that projects are delivered on time and within scope.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in Salesforce development, configuration, and administration, with 3-5 years in an architect or senior leadership role.
- Proven experience in designing and implementing complex Salesforce solutions across multiple clouds (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, etc.).
- Strong knowledge of Salesforce architecture, including multi-org environments, integrations, and data models.
- Expertise in designing and deploying integrations with external systems, including APIs, middleware, and third-party tools.
- Experience with Salesforce Lightning, Apex, Visualforce, and other Salesforce development technologies.
- Salesforce Certified Technical Architect or Salesforce Certified Application Architect (Platform App Builder or similar) required.
- Salesforce Certified System Architect or Architect certifications (e.g., Certified Integration Architecture Designer, Certified Data Architecture Designer) preferred.
- Other relevant Salesforce certifications (e.g., Sales Cloud, Service Cloud) are a plus.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to develop creative solutions to complex business and technical challenges.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to lead and mentor a team of Salesforce professionals.
- In-depth understanding of Salesforce best practices, tools, and technologies.
- Strong project management skills, able to lead multiple projects simultaneously.
- Expertise in Salesforce development (Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Components, SOQL).
- Advanced knowledge of Salesforce integrations, APIs (REST/SOAP), and middleware tools.
- Familiarity with DevOps processes and Salesforce deployment tools (e.g., Salesforce DX, Jenkins).
- Experience with cloud technologies, containerization, and automation tools.
- Solid understanding of data security, governance, and compliance within the Salesforce ecosystem.
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