Salesforce Architect

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.

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