Senior Salesforce Architect

Capitec Bank Ltd.; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Capitec Bank is seeking a Senior Salesforce Architect to drive the development of its Salesforce practice. This role involves leading architectural decisions, collaborating with teams, and ensuring the delivery of scalable banking solutions, all while fostering innovation in financial services.

Benefits

Growth opportunities

Employee benefits and savings

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience required.
• Hands-on Salesforce Architect with expertise in Sales Cloud and Service Cloud.
• Experience with enterprise-grade Salesforce solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of Capitec’s Salesforce practice.
• Drive discussions on technical and architectural matters.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver solutions.

Skills

Salesforce Development

Systems Architecture

Stakeholder Management

Integration Knowledge

Education

Salesforce Certifications

Relevant Degree in IT or related field

Tools

Salesforce DevOps Center

Github

Job description

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About the Role

Are you a visionary technologist with a passion for Salesforce and software engineering? Capitec is building a cutting-edge Salesforce practice, and we’re looking for a Domain Architect to lead the charge. If you're energetic, self-motivated, and ready to shape the future of banking technology, this is your moment. As a Senior Salesforce Architect, you’ll be the technical visionary and hands-on leader driving Capitec’s Salesforce Centre of Excellence. You’ll define and evolve the architectural direction, lead engineering efforts, and collaborate across teams to deliver scalable, resilient solutions that power our banking ecosystem.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the development of Capitec’s Salesforce practice, including architecture, engineering, support, and delivery.
• Drive technical and architectural discussions, ensuring hands-on involvement in engineering tasks.
• Influence the strategic direction of domain architecture.
• Develop and maintain architectural components aligned with SDLC principles.
• Collaborate across engineering, architecture, and delivery teams.

What We Are Looking For

• 8+ years of software development experience, including:

- Hands-on Salesforce Architect, with deep expertise across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and custom Salesforce development.

- Proven experience in designing enterprise-grade Salesforce solutions that are scalable, secure, and aligned with agile delivery practices.

- Strong background in software engineering and systems architecture.

• Deep understanding of Salesforce best practices, architecture patterns, and limits, including data modeling, sharing and visibility models, and performance optimization.
• Expertise in integrating Salesforce with external systems (REST/SOAP APIs, middleware, event-driven architectures, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of DevOps within Salesforce: CI/CD pipelines, version control, automated testing, and release management tools like Github or Salesforce DevOps Center.
• Skilled at balancing hands-on solutioning with high-level architectural leadership.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills to engage and influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with security, compliance, and data governance within Salesforce.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments or enterprise-level Salesforce implementations is highly desirable.
• Salesforce certifications preferred (e.g., Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA), Application Architect, System Architect, or relevant specializations).

Join Us in Becoming the Best Bank in the World!

We appoint energized and motivated people for their potential and continuously look for talented, driven individuals to help us innovate and evolve. We focus on finding the right people for the right jobs. We love what we do because we focus on making a positive difference for our clients and employees. Our company DNA is built around talented and committed teams dedicated to building a brand that we are proud of and that earns the trust of our clients.

Who We Are

We are a bank, but we’re much more than that. We believe that banking is about enabling people to control their financial lives through banking that is simplified, accessible, affordable, and delivered through personal experience. By helping our clients manage their financial lives better, we enable them to live better.

Why Choose Us

At Capitec, we live up to our CEO values in every situation – we always put the Client first, act with Energy, and take Ownership. To support our people in being their best, our Employee Value Proposition offers growth opportunities, employee benefits, and savings. We prioritize making each team member feel welcome, valued, focused, and with opportunities to grow.

Conditions of Employment

• Clear criminal and credit record.

Capitec is committed to diversity and, where feasible, all appointments will support the achievement of our employment equity goals.

Capitec Bank is an authorized financial services provider (FSP 46669) and registered credit provider (NCRCP13). Capitec Bank Limited Reg. No: 1980/003695/06