The purpose of the Salesforce Solution Architect is to provide Architecture and Design thought leadership and guidance to complex Salesforce implementations.
The candidate will collaborate with a variety of stakeholders (business partners, delivery leads, scrum masters and technical peers) to ensure that maximum value is delivered to the business and the platform is robust.
The candidate must demonstrate progressive technical leadership in the full life cycle of the software development environment.
Additionally, the role will be critical to build internal knowledge of the technical solution being built and maintain continuity as SI resources roll off.

Responsibilities

Work with Sector Delivery leads, Product Managers to transform new requirements into best practice led Salesforce architecture and design.
Work directly with stakeholders to design/govern highly usable, scalable, extensible, and maintainable Salesforce solutions.
Create high level architecture/design documents which leverage Salesforce best practices and PepsiCo standards.
Deal with ambiguous problems, take responsibility for finding solutions, and drive towards simple solutions to complex problems.
Troubleshoot key implementation issues and demonstrate ability to drive to successful resolution.
Use deep business knowledge of Salesforce products to help assist with estimation for major new initiatives.
Contribute to CoE building activities by creating reference architectures, common patterns, data models and re-usable assets that empower our stake holders to maximize business value using the breadth of the Salesforce solutions available, also harvesting knowledge from existing implementations.
Evangelize and educate internal stakeholders about Salesforce technology (e.g. CoPs, Workshops, or Conferences).

Qualifications

Bachelors degree in information technology, Computer Science, MIS, Business, or similar field.
14+ years of overall IT experience with a demonstrated track record of major solution design/architecture contributions in a large enterprise.
At least 8 -10 years of experience with Salesforce.com which includes prior experience customizing Salesforce using apex classes/triggers, LWCs, Lightning as well as Integration technologies (such as SOAP or REST).
Atleast 4 years of experience as a Salesforce Architect/Technical lead
Experience with Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud (application design, architecture and development).
Agile delivery experience.
Strong Oral and Written communications skills
Preferred
Experience with CG Cloud
Active Salesforce Developer or Architect Certification

Deputy Director - Salesforce Architect