Deputy Director - Salesforce Architect

• 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