Role: Salesforce Enterprise Architect

2-3 days onsite in Okemos, MI (East Lansing, MI area)

Long Term Contract

No H1B

Job Summary:

The Salesforce Enterprise Architect serves as a strategic leader and technical expert aligning the Salesforce platform with enterprise-wide application architecture goals, strategies and initiatives. This role is also responsible for developing an application technology roadmap that addresses buy-vs-build inflection points, and risk management for all applications in the enterprise portfolio.

EA Responsibilities:

• Provides vision and strategic oversight during product evaluation, solution prototyping, and proof of concept activities.                                                     
• Develops enterprise strategy for application design, approves SDLC processes, evaluates application quality and advises IT leadership on risk.
• Evaluates emerging technology trends, competitive products, and business need to set direction and roadmap for future application growth or buy-vs-build inflection points.
• Provides senior technical leadership and governance for key projects engaging with Project Office, Technical Control Office, senior IT leadership, and business stakeholders. Provides expert advice on milestones, risks, and quality.
• Mentors architecture team and technical team leads in achieving business objectives.

Salesforce Responsibilities:

• Architect/design, implement and maintain scalable and performant solutions on the Salesforce platform including integration to other data sources, ensuring alignment with business requirements and Salesforce best practices.
• Align enterprise-wide architecture strategies and initiatives with Salesforce platform capabilities, acting as a bridge between business and technology stakeholders
• Establish and maintain architecture artifacts, technology roadmaps, solution blueprints, data models, best practices and integration patterns to support current and future business needs
• Provide technical leadership and guidance throughout the project lifecycle, including evaluating design options, assessing risks, and resolving architectural challenges
• Design and implement Salesforce DevOps processes, including CI/CD pipeline configuration and setup, utilizing tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Copado, and Bitbucket to enable efficient, automated deployments and release management