Solution Architect- Salesforce

Job Purpose

• Lead a team and direct the architectural design and strategic technology decisions, ensuring they align with business objectives while fostering innovation within the organization.

Key Accountabilities

Strategic Activities

• Strategic Leadership: Provide strategic guidance and leadership in architecting scalable, resilient, and future-proof digital solutions for the Air India's Salesforce and Software Ecosystem
• Technology Innovation: Drive innovation by staying abreast of emerging technologies, trends, and best practices in software architecture and engineering. Champion the adoption of cutting-edge technologies specifically Artificial Intelligence (AI) that enhance the Air India's digital capabilities and competitive advantage.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including software engineers, product managers, data scientists, and UI/UX designers to ensure alignment of architectural decisions with business objectives and technical requirements across Service, Sales, Agentforce Data 360 and Experience Cloud.
• Architectural Design and Governance: Develop and maintain architectural blueprints, standards, and guidelines to ensure consistency, scalability, and maintainability across the Air India's Salesforce and Other software portfolio. Implement governance processes to review and approve architectural changes and ensure adherence to established standards.

Team Management

• Lead a team of Team Leads, Developers and guide them to ensure their efforts align with overarching objectives.
• Act as a mentor to Salesforce development teams and facilitate knowledge-sharing sessions, workshops, and technical trainings to foster continuous learning and skill development within the team.
• Establish a clear direction for team, monitor performance, and adjust strategies as necessary to achieve desired outcomes.
• Cultivate a culture of accountability, ownership, and teamwork, providing leadership to nurture team members' professional growth.
• Facilitate talent development to position the team for long-term success.

Skills Required for the role

• Expert level understanding of the Salesforce product suite, including Sales, Service, Data 360, Agentforce, Marketing, and Experience.
• Understanding of systems architecture and ability to design scalable performance-driven solutions
• Familiarity with platform authentication patterns (SAML, SSO, OAuth) and Experience with platform security capabilities (TLS, SSL)
• Expert level experience defining the system architecture landscape, identifying gaps between current and desired end-states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will enable achievement of the desired business outcomes
• Strong background in design/development of large web-based systems, or complete software product lifecycle exposure
• Understanding of key design patterns and large data volume limitations and best practice

Educational and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. Master's degree or MBA preferred.
• 6-10 years CRM experience with a minimum of 2 years on the Salesforce platform as an Architect
• Expert level understanding of the Salesforce product suite, including Sales, Service, Data 360, Agentforce, Marketing, and Experience.
• Certification in Salesforce related Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, Platform Developer I and Agentforce.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in building Agents in Salesforce, Proficiency in prompt Builder, Agent Builder Script
• Application Architect and System Architect certification.
• Functional Agentforce Agents built over the period of time.