Salesforce Business Architect

Horizontal Digital; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

22workingdays holiday

Comprehensive medical insurance

Visa sponsorship

Flexible office times

Remote work 2 weeks per year

Snacks and drinks in the office

Job summary

Horizontal Digital in the UAE is seeking a Salesforce Business Architect to operate at the intersection of business consulting and Salesforce solution design. You will lead clients from abstract business vision to structured, implementable requirements, ensuring alignment between business objectives and Salesforce capabilities.

You will play a critical role in shaping enterprise-wide process transformations, defining business architectures, and enabling scalable Salesforce programs across

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Business Architecture or similar in Salesforce/digital transforms.
• Strong client-facing and workshop leadership experience.
• Expertise in BPMN and requirements engineering.
• Knowledge of Salesforce clouds and design trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery workshops to define objectives and transformation opportunities.
• Translate business intent into capability models and user stories.
• Define future-state operating models aligned to Salesforce best practices.
• Oversee requirements lifecycle from ideation to backlog and acceptance.
• Advise on Salesforce OOTB vs customization for scalable solutions.
• Drive multi-cloud solution design with delivery teams.

Skills

Business Architect

Functional Lead

Senior Consultant

Salesforce

BPMN

Requirements engineering

Stakeholder management

Executive presence

Tools

Salesforce CRM

Job description

At Horizontal Digital, we hold ourselves to one key belief:You’reonly as good as your worst customer experience. This mantra is what drives our digital consultancy to think beyond the easy answers and instead create websites, apps,portalsand other experiences that solve customer needs for Fortune 500companiesin intuitive and empathetic ways. And we make this lofty standard a reality by fusing strategy, data,designand technology together to arrive at solutions that set the bar higher for everyone.

We use these values to fuel superior results:

Lockarms

We forge relationships that make our impact 1,000x stronger. This means working across departments and engaging both our clients and our communities to deliver the greatestgood.

Showhustle

We’re not ones to sit on our hands and wait. Instead, weanticipateopportunities, collectively roll up oursleevesand find ways to execute the exceptional.

Embrace change

Fromnew technologiesto workplace philosophies, we welcome the unexpected and constantlyanticipatewhat’snext.

Elevate empathy

We listen before wetake action. This means understanding a variety of perspectives and holding ourselves to a higher standard of accountability.

Never settle

We motivate each other to push past the easy answers and collectively arrive at bigger, more inspiring ideas.

But enough about us.Let’stalk about you.

As aSalesforce Business Architect, you will operate at the intersection of business consulting, process architecture, and Salesforce solution design. You will lead clients from abstract business vision to structured, implementable requirements, ensuring alignment between business objectives and Salesforce capabilities.

You will play a critical role in shaping enterprise-wide process transformations, defining business architectures, and enabling scalable Salesforce programs across multiple clouds.

This role requires client-facing consulting professional who combines deep industry understanding, strong process modelling skills (BPMN), and hands-on Salesforce functional expertise to drive measurable business outcomes.

Whatyou’lldo:

Business Architecture & Requirements Engineering

• Lead structured discovery and stakeholder workshops to define business objectives, pain points, and transformation opportunities.
• Translate business intent into capability models, BPMN process architectures, epics, and user stories.
• Define future-state operating models and end-to-end process designs aligned to Salesforce best practices.
• Own requirements lifecycle management from ideation to backlog refinement, prioritization, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure end-to-end traceability from business outcomes to solution design and delivery.

Salesforce Functional Solutioning

• Advise on optimal use of Salesforce OOTB capabilities vs. customization, ensuring scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Partner with Technical Architects and delivery teams to translate requirements into robust, multi-cloud solutions.
• Drive functional solution design across core Salesforce clouds (Sales, Service, Experience, Data/Revenue/Commerce as applicable).
• Enforce platform best practices, design guardrails, and industry standards.
• Oversee functional validation, UAT strategy, and business acceptance to ensure alignment with intended outcomes.

Strategic Consulting & Roadmap Delivery

• Develop capability roadmaps, transformation blueprints, and prioritization frameworks aligned to client strategy.
• Advise on CRM maturity, process optimization, and customer experience transformation.
• Define business cases and value realization frameworks with clear linkage to KPIs and outcomes.
• Support target operating model (TOM) definition and governance structures for scalable adoption.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders, driving value-led conversations and continuous improvement.
• Support pre-sales, solution shaping, and proposal development with strong functional context.
• Contribute to solution narratives and executive storytelling aligned to business outcomes.
• Identify expansion opportunities, cross-cloud use cases, and process-led transformation initiatives.

Team & Practice Enablement

• Mentor Business Analysts and Functional Consultants on business architecture, process modelling, and stakeholder engagement.
• Contribute to practice assets, accelerators, and delivery frameworks.
• Drive adoption of structured methodologies (BPMN, capability modelling, backlog governance).
• Support internal enablement on industry trends, Salesforce innovations, and functional patterns.

Whoyou are:

• A consulting-led Business Architect with strong domain understanding and executive presence.
• Comfortable engaging C-level stakeholders, translating strategy into executable solutions.
• Able to operate across strategy, functional design, and delivery governance.
• Structured, outcome-oriented, and skilled at simplifying complex business problems.
• Proactive and entrepreneurial, with a focus on long-term client value and growth.

What you bring:

• 8+ years of experience as a Business Architect, Functional Lead, or Senior Consultant in Salesforce or digital transformation programs.
• Strong client-facing experience, leading workshops, stakeholder alignment, and requirements definition.
• Expertise in business process modelling (BPMN) and requirements engineering.
• Solid understanding of Salesforce platform capabilities and design trade-offs (configuration vs. customization).
• Experience across core Salesforce clouds (Sales, Service, Experience; exposure to Commerce/Revenue/Data Cloud is a plus).
• Proven delivery of functional artifacts (process maps, capability models, user stories, solution blueprints).
• Candidates with one or more of Salesforce consultant certificates (Sales, Service, Experience, Commerce, Revenue etc) are preferred.

Our UAE Benefits include:

• 22workingdays holiday
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• Flexibleoffice times and working fromhome twice per week
• Remote working from a place of your choice for 2 weeks a year
• Free snacks and drinks in the office

Horizontal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affluent Action Employer. We seek to provide employment opportunities to talented, qualified candidates regardless of race, color, sex/gender including gender identity and/or expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under federal, state or local law. In addition, Horizontal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation in order to complete the application or interview process, please contact [e-mail] . All applicants applying must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment.