Salesforce Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect

At Regions, the Enterprise Architect oversees multiple dimensions of assigned applications and/or capabilities including but not limited to stability, life cycle management, version control, design and development of technology solutions, mapping of business requirements to capability oriented technical requirements, and ensuring Technology solutions to business needs are developed in accordance with the enterprise architectural roadmap, guidelines, and standards.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manages end to end from conception, through delivery, into production of enterprise architectures
• Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions
• Leads the design and modeling of tactical architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects
• Designs both the physical and logical components of solution architectures that will deliver a positive business outcome
• Collaborates with other domain architects to provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solution
• Oversees technical analysis and design capabilities
• Facilitates technology design workshops for emerging technologies
• Validates designs produced by third party vendors wishing to sell solutions to the organization
• Aligns IT strategy and planning with the company's business goals and objectives
• Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure and application roadmap to reduce costs and improve how information flows
• Collaborates on roadmaps to align information technology priorities with business partner requirements and strategies
• Builds and maintains technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision makers within Technology
• Works with developers to ensure that technical solutions align with the overall Information Technology architecture frameworks and design guidelines
• Works with Portfolio technology leaders to include technical debt initiatives to portfolio roadmap
• Oversees data integration and configuration
• Provides consultation on the most complex projects
• Leads the work of others
• Partners across Technology, Operations, Digital, and Data (TODD) to ensure controls are designed, implemented, and monitored to strengthen risk management, compliance, and cyber security, effectively mitigating risk to levels within the company's risk appetite
• Practices disciplined change management by evaluating risk and control impacts when designing or implementing changes to processes, systems, products, and/or services and ensures appropriate updates to procedures, training, and controls are made accordingly

This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

This position is incentive eligible.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field and ten (10) years of enterprise, solutions and/or technical architecture experience
• Experience of N-tier architectures and complex design architectures
• Experience with technical, application, and information architecture delivery techniques and methodologies
• Experience with Agile methods

Required Certifications/Licensures

• Certifications in the technology domain of the enterprise

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to interpret and ensure compliance with applicable rules, regulations, and industry guidance
• An understanding of, and ability to use, design patterns to steer business requirements into enterprise wide technical strategies
• Awareness and ability to document designs using internal and external notational standards (Business Process Model and Notation {BPMN}, Unified Modeling Language {UML})
• Hands on the keyboard depth in one or more popular programming languages like Java, Go, C#, Rust, Python, etc.
• Knowledge of security design techniques
• Understanding the technology of the organization, e.g. Middleware, .NET, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Oracle, etc.
• Working knowledge of modern Operating Systems (Linux/Windows), Networking, Servers/Mainframe, Secure Coding Practices, Development Environments (Java/.Net), Databases (DB2/Oracle/SQL Server)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep expertise in Salesforce platform architecture, with the ability to define how Salesforce should be optimally designed and used across the enterprise
• Establishes enterprise-wide Salesforce architecture standards, patterns, and guardrails to ensure scalable, secure, and governed implementations
• Translates business strategy into a Salesforce capability roadmap, aligning platform usage to customer experience, growth, and digital transformation goals
• Acts as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders, guiding decisions on when and how to leverage Salesforce vs. other platforms
• Proven experience serving as an Enterprise Architect within a financial services organization driving enterprise technology strategy and architecture decisions
• Demonstrated success leading or supporting Salesforce implementations in financial services…