Domain Architect, Salesforce Ecosystem

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The Domain Architect, Salesforce Ecosystem owns the ecosystem roadmap, architecture standards, and design review operations for every Salesforce platform in Global Commercial Business Technology Services, governing approximately 32 critical applications post-migration. The role is the primary architecture relationship owner for Salesforce and is accountable for driving decisions for Salesforce technology adoption, such asData 360,Agentforce,Agent Exchange, and Headless 360.

Responsibilities:

• Advance programobjectivesand resolve high-impact technical issues.Advise onandvalidatesystem architecture designs, orchestrate cross-functional technical efforts, shape implementation strategies, and provide recommendations on ambiguous technical questions. In this domain: rule on Salesforce org strategy and connected-org questions,for example, steering decisions on Sales Cloud versus Service Cloud versus Health Cloud boundaries, and on where a capability belongs when Salesforce ships a native alternative to something Abb Vie already runs.
• Manage design reviews and enforce architecture compliance.Lead Domain Review Board reviews for all initiatives touching Salesforce, classify review tierthroughweekly project request intake reviews,evaluate solution designs against the Architecture Review Checklist, and coordinate remediation plans with the Salesforce application teams. Own the Salesforce sections of the standards library and report review quality metrics.
• Drive continuous improvement of architecture frameworks.Iterate the Salesforce reference architectures and packaged deployment standards as the platform evolves, analyzing review feedback and benchmarking against Salesforce reference patterns and the Forward Deployed Engineering Partner Network. Own end-of-life and version currency positions, including managed package and API version deprecation exposure.
• Own technical strategy for major, complex programs.Own the Salesforce architecture workstream oflarge implementation programs: platform design patterns, integration contracts, migration sequencing, sunset sequencing, and cutover criteria. Define technical approach and success criteria,establish quality standards, and coordinate multidisciplinary teams and external partners to standards-aligned delivery.
• Own the Salesforce ecosystem roadmap and cloud boundary decisions
  .Publish andmaintainthe multi-year Salesforce roadmap: cloud-by-cloud target state, release adoption posture, org strategy, and the sequence in which commercial capabilitiesconsolidateonto the platform. Define and defend the boundariesbetweenorgs, with the data model and licensing consequences of each decision stated. Reconcile the roadmap quarterly against the Salesforce vendor roadmap.
• Author the Salesforce Standards Library.Own data model conventions, integration patterns, packaging and deployment standards, environment and sandbox topology, security and sharing model patterns, and platformlimitsgovernance. Onboard Salesforce application teams to the standard delivery pipeline with the packaged deployment standard in force.
• Govern agent and AI capability on the platform.Own the evaluation and admission path for Agentforce agents,Agent Exchange listings, and MCP toolexposureso the marketplace does not become an ungoverned procurement channel. Define what gets built, what gets installed, and what gets rejected, and enforce the constraint that Agentforceagentsoperateexclusively within the Salesforce platform. Hold the Data 360 boundary: authoritative mastering stays upstream in the enterprise data estate.
• Own the Salesforce vendor relationship and rationalization decisions
  .Serve as primary architecture relationship owner for Salesforce: runthe quarterly strategic review cadence, track the release stream and product direction, and surface roadmap misalignment with the cost of waiting stated.
  
  Identify duplicate capability inside the Salesforce estate and lead build, buy, or wait evaluations with…