Job Summary

Enterprise Salesforce Architect responsible for leading the enterprise through a created EA vision and strategy around how to position Salesforce to support and grow our business.

Essential Job Functions

Ability to create Salesforce Architecture Strategy and Reference Architecture (blueprint, patterns, principles and standards).

Complete technical and licensing understanding of Salesforce and capabilities.

Ability to lead and hold accountable the enterprise towards Salesforce vision and standards.

Ability to assess the current Distribution landscape and create and execute to-be vision and roadmap

 Ability to collaborate and influence across key IT and business stakeholders.

Ability to build sound business case around change.

Ability to build and articulate an architecture and delivery roadmap indicating current to future state, focused around clear benefits to both IT and business users.

Ability to authentically and effectively communicate with various stakeholders across business and IT.

Responsible for managing risk within an organization through a reusable framework and process.

Responsible for creating design patterns and best practices for Salesforce through the enterprise.

Education Requirements:

Bachelor's degree required. MBA/MIS a plus. Continue educational development in job related field.

Experience Requirements

Expert knowledge on Salesforce capabilities, with focus on Sales / Service Cloud, Lightning Platform and Lightning Web Component.

Established relationship with Salesforce to understand and influence vendor roadmap direction.

Demonstrated abilities to lead large, multi-million dollar Data programs.

Proven ability to work with all levels within the IT and Business organization.

Well versed in the Enterprise Architecture process and the value it provides.

Experience in influencing executive business and IT leadership.

Insurance industry experience is heavily preferred, with knowledge across various Insurance domains (i.e. Personal Lines Products, Commercial Products, Distribution, Service Operations, etc.).

Hands-on ability to build reference architecture and reference implementations to lead and guide the development and engineering staff.

Solid understanding of the Salesforce data models, Salesforce integration patterns and methods, and UI capabilities.

Hands on experience developing in multiple SFDC orgs / domains.

Special Skill Requirement

Certified SFDC Application architect. 10+ years of experience in an EA role.

10+ years of experience on Salesforce. Insurance experience.

Certifications in Enterprise Architecture frameworks (i.e. TOGAF, Zachman, EABOK, EACOE, etc).

Additional 3-5 years working in another role leveraging Salesforce (or similar CRM platform).