Salesforce Architect

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Job Summary

The Salesforce Platform Architect is a trusted advisor, visionary, and technical leader responsible for defining, guiding, and executing Baird’s Salesforce platform and integration strategy. This role blends deep technical expertise with business acumen to influence at the enterprise level, ensuring Salesforce solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, and aligned with business goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic advisor and influencer to IT leadership, business stakeholders, and delivery teams, helping shape Baird’s Salesforce roadmap with a forward-looking perspective.
• Define and communicate architecture standards, patterns, and best practices, ensuring alignment to Salesforce Well-Architected tenants (Trusted, Easy, Adaptable).
• Influence and drive the direction of platform development architecture, versions, and toolsets.
• Assist in advising the IT vision, strategy, technology innovations, licensing, and architecture services.
• Develop policies, standards, best practices, and guidelines, and communicate to teams with a focus on empowering others to implement quality value-add solutions.
• Help deliver highly technical concepts by researching and building POCs to assess viability within the Salesforce environment.
• Design, prototype, document and implement the strategic roadmap ensuring its feasibility.
• Conceptualize and design technology-based solutions within scope of the business unit application domain.
• Lead discussions around buy vs. build, declarative vs. programmatic, and cloud adoption trade-offs to ensure long-term scalability and reduced technical debt.
• Help platform teams develop solutions that enable businesses to capitalize on business insights and drive toward gaining a competitive advantage.
• Strive to understand platform needs of the business community, as well as the problems faced by business users, proactively identifying platform needs, gaps, and future opportunities, aligning architecture with business outcomes.
• Demonstrate ability to perform strategic thinking by viewing initiatives both within the immediate project context as well as the overall vision.

Requirements

• Work with teams on high level project direction and creation of technical requirements.
• Translate business requirements into scalable solution architectures.
• Communicate requirements, architecture, and test plans to platform team members.