Program Architect

About the role : 

the Program Architect is a Strategic Architect who helps customers establish a solid architecture foundation, effective architecture governance and a continuous delivery engine to allow Salesforce to serve as a mission-critical customer platform. We are looking for Enterprise Architects who have worked in large transformational engagements. The Enterprise Architect is the senior level of Technical Architect.

Responsibilities : 

• Provide architecture leadership and oversight for large transformational enterprise impacting initiatives to ensure that solutions development aligns with the defined architecture strategies
• Lead development of multi-year strategies and implementation roadmaps for various business units across a customer’s enterprise.
• Lead the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive useful business context
• Lead analysis of the current environment of the customer to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improving IT’s value proposition to the business partners
• Be aware of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise architecture
• Promote the EA processes, strategies and recommendations to the organisation, including the enterprise’s IT and business leaders
• Lead technical design sessions; architect and document technical solutions aligned with client business objectives; identify gaps between client’s current and desired end states
• Provide oversight and governance of Salesforce projects
• Lead technical design sessions; architect and document technical solutions aligned with client business objectives; identify gaps between client’s current and desired end states
• Follow and help define coding standards. Lead code reviews during projects to ensure quality and appropriate design patterns are followed
• Manage the technical delivery of custom development, integrations, and data migration elements of a Salesforce implementation
• From time-to-time, the PA may be expected to partake in other pre-sales activities such as discovery and technical deep-dive sessions, Proof-Of-Concept (POC) development with prospects
• Liaise with Salesforce product teams to support client implementations
• Travels to client sites for projects, estimated 50-75%

Candidate requirements : 

• 9 – 16 years experience in mid-large enterprise IT environments
• External consulting experience, including implementations with one or more common enterprise software solutions
• Experience with enterprise application, data, security and integration architecture patterns and domains
• Experience with Banking and Financial Services Domain
• Expert level understanding of the Salesforce product suite, including Sales, Service, Community, Marketing, and Community Clouds
• Expert level experience defining the system architecture landscape, identifying gaps between current and desired end-states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will enable achievement of the desired business outcomes
• Strong background in design/development of large web-based systems, or complete software product lifecycle exposure
• Strong knowledge and experience of Salesforce development and configuration.
• Understanding of systems architecture and ability to design scalable performance-driven solutions
• Familiarity with platform authentication patterns (SAML, SSO, OAuth)
• Knowledge of data integration tools and experience integrating Salesforce with different business systems (ETL, CPQ, marketing automation, reporting, etc.)
• Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies
• Experience with platform security capabilities (TLS, SSL)
• Active Salesforce certifications or ability to achieve relevant certifications upon hire.