Salesforce Platform Architect

Salesforce Platform Architect

Remote

12+ months

Job Summary:

Client is seeking a Salesforce Platform Architect to join the Information Technology

organization. You will be responsible for delivering the technology strategy for Salesforce use.

This role has the highest level of technical expertise and manages the overall technical structure

and global configuration of Salesforce, based on the business strategy and needs. You will need

to partner with both business and technology stakeholders to ensure that the Salesforce

strategy and execution align with the Client’s overall objectives. This role collaborates with the

technical teams and product managers supporting Salesforce and other Sales applications to

provide solution options and identify any issues leading to potential downstream impacts. You

will also be responsible for ensuring platform health and agility to support current and future

needs.

Primary Responsibilities:

● Work collaboratively with business and technology stakeholders in defining future-state

technology architectures and roadmap that take into account the future business goals

and competing priorities

● Work with stakeholders to understand potential opportunities and recommend solutions.

● Determine and produce artifacts that will guide technical teams to drive to meaningful

business outcomes

● Provide oversight for technical work to ensure platform standards are followed

● Work with vendors to understand their technology/feature roadmap and help business

and IT team to plan accordingly

● Monitor and maintain platform health using KPIs for performance, data quality, technical

debt and agility

● Maintain up to date documentation of current state architecture, data flows and

integrations for Sales and Support applications.

● Acts as technical tier 4 for unresolved inquiries within the purview of the role.

● Collaborates with key stakeholders to ensure regulatory and overall data compliance and

adherence to business process controls.

Required Experience & Skills:

● 3+ years of experience as an application/platform architect, with responsibility for

defining target state architecture for solutions on Salesforce

● 7-10 years of Salesforce Development or advanced admin experience

● Extensive knowledge of salesforce governor Limits

● Strong working knowledge of Sales, Community and Support/Service. This would

include various Salesforce components such as

● Experience defining and maintaining technology roadmaps

● Expertise in applications development such as: Integration Techniques/Patterns, Data

Modeling/Patterns, Security Patterns

● Effective interpersonal skills to influence and socialize the solution designs

● Thorough understanding of the Sales domain

● Able to define platform development/configuration standards

● Experienced with the principles of agile development methodologies

Nice to have experience:

○ Design and building of custom solution or managed packages for salesforce

○ Technical governance oversight of multiple development teams

○ Application or system architect Salesforce certifications a plus