Salesforce Solution Architect to govern the design, architecture, development, integration, and lifecycle management of the Salesforce platform. The role will be responsible for establishing technical standards, reviewing solution designs, validating effort estimations, ensuring scalable architecture, governing integrations, and driving platform optimization initiatives while collaborating with internal stakeholders, vendors, and implementation partners.

Key Responsibilities

1. Salesforce Solution Governance

- Review and approve technical solution designs, architecture documents, security models, data models, automation frameworks, and development approaches.

- Assess business requirements and recommend optimal Salesforce solutions.

- Ensure adherence to Salesforce best practices, enterprise architecture standards, and compliance requirements.

- Recommend acceptance, redesign, or optimization of proposed solutions.

1. Technical Architecture &
- Standards

- Define and maintain architecture standards for Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Salesforce Flows, security frameworks, data architecture, release management, scalability, and performance.

- Establish architecture guardrails, coding standards, and technical governance frameworks.

- Ensure long-term maintainability, reliability, and scalability of Salesforce solutions.

1. Effort Validation &
- Estimation Governance

- Review and validate effort estimations provided by internal teams and implementation partners.

- Assess estimates related to enhancements, projects, integrations, testing, deployments, and support activities.

- Challenge assumptions, identify optimization opportunities, and recommend efficient delivery approaches.

- Approve technical baselines and change requests.

1. Enterprise Integration Governance

- Design and govern integrations between Salesforce and enterprise applications including Oracle ERP, middleware platforms,



customer portals, loyalty platforms, mobile applications, and third-party systems.

- Define API standards, integration patterns, security controls, and data synchronization strategies.

- Review and approve technical integration approaches.

1. AppExchange &
- Solution Evaluation

- Evaluate AppExchange products, accelerators, reusable components, frameworks, and third-party plugins.

- Conduct technical fitment, licensing, supportability, risk, and cost-benefit assessments.

- Drive buy-versus-build decisions and provide recommendations with supporting rationale.

1. Platform Lifecycle Management

- Support Salesforce platform roadmap planning and modernization initiatives.

- Drive technical debt reduction, release planning, setting management, platform upgrades, licensing optimization, and scalability improvements.

- Identify opportunities for automation, performance enhancement, and platform optimization.

1. Delivery &
- Release Governance

- Review code quality, deployment strategies, testing approaches, security compliance, release readiness, and production support models.

- Monitor delivery risks and provide mitigation plans.

- Participate in release approvals and provide go/no-go recommendations.

- Support defect triage and critical issue resolution.

1. Documentation &
- Knowledge Management

- Ensure maintenance of architecture diagrams, interface specifications, technical designs, release documentation, operational procedures, user guides, and knowledge repositories.





- Establish documentation standards and governance processes.

- Ensure completion and accuracy of all project documentation before sign-off.

1. Vendor &
- Stakeholder Management

- Collaborate with Salesforce partners, vendors, system integrators, business teams, and internal technology stakeholders.

- Facilitate technical discussions, governance reviews, and knowledge transfer activities.

- Recommend corrective actions, priorities, escalations, and improvement initiatives.

Key Accountabilities

- Overall Salesforce platform architecture and technical governance.

- Solution quality, scalability, security, and performance.

- Enterprise integration architecture and compliance.

- Technical delivery oversight and release governance.

- Platform optimization and roadmap execution.

- Vendor management and stakeholder alignment.

- Documentation quality and knowledge management.

Authorities

- Approve or reject solution architecture and technical design proposals.

- Recommend design changes, optimization measures, and governance controls.

- Validate project estimates, resource assumptions, and technical approaches.

- Approve integration patterns, API standards, and platform architecture guidelines.

- Recommend platform investments, technology adoption, and buy-versus-build decisions.

- Escalate technical risks and provide release go/no-go recommendations.

Required Skills

- Salesforce Architecture &
- Governance

- Apex Development &

- Lightning Web Components

- Salesforce Flow &

- Automation

- Integration Architecture &

- APIs

- Oracle ERP / Enterprise Application Integration

- Security &

- Compliance

- Release &

- Environment Management

- Solution Design Review

- Vendor Management

- Project Estimation &

- Technical Governance

- Documentation &

- Knowledge Management

- Agile Delivery &

- Stakeholder Management

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