Salesforce Architect

Key Responsibilities Lead independent delivery assurance by acting as the Firm''s central counterpart between technical delivery teams and business specialists, ensuring clear risk visibility and expert challenge. Ensure Salesforce implementation aligns with cloud SaaS best practices, emphasizing standardized, upgrade-safe architecture, configuration-first principles, and sustainable design decisions. Challenge and collaborate with the implementation partner on scope, delivery approaches, and ensuring reusable, well-documented design artifacts. Govern configuration versus customization decisions, protecting platform upgradeability and scalability aligned to Salesforce''s roadmap. Oversee business readiness and adoption, supporting the translation of business requirements into platform-appropriate outcomes and enabling sustainable internal Salesforce capabilities. Manage the oversight of data readiness, migration strategy, and analytics, ensuring data ownership and quality are clearly defined and maintained. Maintain the CRM risk register, escalate critical risks to executive sponsors, and provide clear options and trade-offs to steer delivery decisions. Gate emerging technologies such as AI adoption in alignment with policy, maturity, and value principles while ensuring performance, security, and compliance readiness. Support end-to-end delivery assurance without direct project management, focusing on surfacing delivery risks early and confirming Legacy CRM decommissioning ..... full job details .....