Job Description
Job Title: Salesforce Architect
Work Location: Richardson, TX (3 days in office)
Duration:12 month contract with option to extend or hire
Job Description & Responsibilities :
- Architect scalable and innovative solutions for complex Salesforce platforms across US and global markets.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, engineering, product management, UX, and vendors to design systems aligned with business strategy and technology roadmap.
- Understand and experience the entire PDLC and SDLC lifecycle.
- Develop architecture artifacts to modernize and improve business value and platform functionality.
- Align strategy and planning with application development and business roadmaps.
- Provide ongoing architecture review and design support to multi-functional teams.
- Liaise with management and domain experts to accomplish objectives.
- Specify and design solutions across business areas or systems, ensuring balance in functional, service quality, monitoring, observability, security, and systems management requirements.
- Lead efforts for new software selection, including RFI/RFP development, evaluation of commercial software solutions, and proof of concepts.
- Define, maintain, and manage architecture models, frameworks, and artifacts.
- Analyze multi-functional business processes, identify alternative solutions, and recommend innovative approaches.
- Investigate operational requirements, problems, and opportunities for multi-functional initiatives.
- Develop and manage expectations for customers and stakeholders.
- Apply data analysis, data modeling, and quality assurance techniques to establish and maintain data structures.
- Contribute to solution scoping and effort sizing with multi-functional teams.
- Stay informed on technology/industry trends and product roadmaps.
- Contribute to the creation of the roadmap, QBR, and reference architecture/blueprints for Enterprise Architecture.
- Manage data and artifacts in the Architecture Repository.
- Lead the creation of application rationalization plans for the technology domain/platform.
- Contribute to the creation of architecture and design principles and standards.
- Lead the application catalog for the domain in the Enterprise Application Repository.
- Collaborate to prioritize and influence planned platform upgrades and features.
- Collaborate to prioritize platform upgrades and features.
- Lead the creation of application rationalization plans and manage data in the Architecture Repository.
- Contribute to enterprise capability maps, architecture principles, and standards.
- Conduct research on technology trends and product roadmaps.
- Provide ongoing architecture review and design support to cross-functional teams.
Skills & Qualifications :
- 13+ years of experience, with 6+ in Salesforce solutions.
- Experience with Business Architecture methodologies and Agile Development Methodology.
- Served as a solution architect for multiple enterprise transformation implementations.
- Strong understanding and experience with object-oriented programming.
- Deep functional and business process understanding of lead-to-cash areas.
- Experience with Security, Integration, and Data Architecture.
- Manage multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.
- Effective presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills to influence cross-functional leaders.
- Strong leadership, relationship building, and negotiating skills.
- Experience in Predictive and/or Generative AI technologies.
- Familiarity with data quality management concepts and ITIL.
- Experience with enterprise transformation implementations.
- Knowledge of Business Architecture methodologies (C360 platform, Data Cloud, Sales Cloud, Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Revenue Cloud, Agentforce, MuleSoft, Tableau, Slack, Heroku).
Soft Skills:
- Strong leadership, relationship building, communication, collaboration and negotiating skills.
- Outstanding written, verbal, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability and desire to collaborate and connect with colleagues and partners regularly.
- Effective presentation skills and tact required to work with and influence multi-functional leaders.
- Ability to operate in a sophisticated environment of multiple projects and partners and participate in several projects simultaneously.
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