Salesforce Platform Architect

Overview

The purpose of the Salesforce Solution Designer is to design and articulate solutions based on strategic business and technical requirements. The candidate will work with a variety of people (business partners, scrum masters and technical peers) to ensure that maximum value is delivered to the business. The candidate must demonstrate progressive leadership in the full life cycle of the software development environment. Additionally, the role is critical to build internal PepsiCo knowledge of the technical solution being built and maintain continuity as SI resources roll off.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product Owners and Business Analysts to transform new requirements into Salesforce design and lead implementation with the development team.
• Work directly with stakeholders to design / govern highly usable, scalable, extensible, and maintainable Salesforce solutions. Create application and technical 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 drive solution design and estimation for major new initiatives.
• Contribute to CoE building activities by creating reference architectures, 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