Salesforce Solutions Architect

Boardroom Appointments; Randburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a Salesforce Solutions Architect to lead enterprise CRM initiatives in the banking sector. This role requires advanced Salesforce experience, architecture leadership, and hands-on development across the full stack.

You will drive end-to-end delivery from architecture through deployment, mentor engineers, and ensure alignment with security and infrastructure guidelines. A strong background in banking CRM and certifications is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level or higher with IT focus and NQF 7 qualification.
• Salesforce Platform Developer I certification.
• Currently pursuing Salesforce Application Architect certification.
• Minimum 5+ years in banking platforms with at least 1 year 6 months on Salesforce.
• Direct CRM project experience for middle market and enterprise clients.
• Strong software engineering skills on Force.com (Apex, LWC, SOQL, unit testing).
• Experience with relational databases, data modelling and ETL tools.

Responsibilities

• Apply critical thinking and problem solving in an agile team to deliver complex Salesforce solutions.
• Lead design and development lifecycle phases from design to deployment.
• Ensure solutions align with architecture, security and infrastructure guidelines.
• Assess feasibility and requirements to propose robust, scalable architectures.
• Develop high quality software and architecture in test- and domain-driven environments.
• Produce organized, optimized source code for production-ready features.
• Implement self-service, repeatable, testable and resilient designs.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deploy across multi-site environments.
• Leverage observability tools (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, NewRelic) for monitoring.
• Automate tasks with Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes; perform code reviews and mentoring.
• Collaborate with guilds and SMEs to evolve technical products and standards.
• Apply unit and integration testing, and use stubbing tools where needed.
• Ensure development aligns with Group Architecture and security guidelines.
• Plan releases and manage risk with project teams when required.
• Contribute to incident management and DR exercises; maintain documentation.

Skills

Banking platform experience

CRM project experience

Problem solving

Agile team

Design thinking

Team collaboration

Education

Bcom (Information Technology) or Equivalent NQF 7

Salesforce Platform Developer I certification

Working towards Salesforce Application Architect certification

Tools

Force.com Platform (Apex, LWC, SOQL)

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Azure DevOps)

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

ELK stack

Prometheus

Grafana

NewRelic

Zipkin/Jaeger

Job description

About the job Salesforce Solutions Architect

• Bcom (Information Technology) or Equivalent NQF 7 qualification
• Salesforce Platform Developer I certification
• Working towards a Salesforce Application Architect certification
• 5+ years of Banking Platform experience of which 1 years 6 months is working on Salesforce platforms as a minimum
• Direct experience working on CRM projects for middle market and enterprise size companies.
• Software engineering skills with Force.com Platform (Apex, LWC, SOQL, Unit Testing)
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of relational databases, data modelling, and ETL tools

Responsibilities:

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front
• End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions
• Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process
• Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and
• proposed solutions
• Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / Azure Devops or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage e.g.
• aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with guilds and other technical SMEs to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock,
• hoverfly etc.)
• Apply version control and related concepts and techniques
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines
• Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing,
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.
• Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization
• Coach & mentor other engineers
• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization
• Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)
• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
• Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals)
• Participate in incident management & DR activity applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of