Head Salesforce Solution & Org Architect

About the Role

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group. Belonging at Absa Absa is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We are an

Responsibilities

• Ensure that CIB’s Salesforce estate evolves as a secure, scalable, connected and sustainable enterprise platform.
• is to establish the blueprints, patterns and architecture guardrails for a Salesforce platform that is secure, scalable, reusable and sustainable, while integrating effectively with enterprise platforms and authoritative data sources.
• ensures that individual solutions meet immediate business needs without compromising the long-term integrity of the Salesforce ecosystem, while driving reuse, standardisation and appropriate adoption of native Salesforce and Financial Services Cloud capabilities across CIB’s Pan-African footprint.
• You will provide architecture leadership across three connected disciplines: Solution Architecture, Org Architecture and Architecture Leadership.
• You will translate complex
• CIB business and technology requirements into end-to-end solution architectures while protecting the long-term integrity, scalability and sustainability of the
• Salesforce platform and its relationship with the wider enterprise architecture.
• Shape the target Salesforce architecture for a client-led Pan-African CIB.
• Apply deep Financial Services Cloud architecture and data-model expertise, not merely Salesforce configuration.
• Determine how Salesforce should interact with enterprise applications, platforms and authoritative data sources.
• Lead architecture decisions spanning data, integration, security, identity, automation, AI and custom development.
• Challenge unnecessary customisation and champion native Salesforce capability where it creates the stronger long-term architecture.
• Guide Feature Teams, developers, technical leads, platform engineers and delivery partners.
• We're especially interested in you if..
• .
• You are already a serious Salesforce architect, but you're looking for a problem bigger than another implementation. You understand the difference between implementing Salesforce and architecting an enterprise Salesforce ecosystem.
• You bring strong practical experience across complex
• Salesforce estates and can move comfortably between platform architecture, data architecture, integration, security, identity, org strategy and enterprise architecture.
• 10+ years' experience working across Salesforce platforms and enterprise technology environments.
• Proven experience designing and delivering Salesforce solutions across multiple business domains and large-scale programmes.
• Experience architecting integrations with enterprise applications, data platforms and identity/security ecosystems.
• Deep hands-on Salesforce architecture experience ideally including Financial Services Cloud.
• Architecture leadership across complex, integrated and highly governed enterprise environments.
• Strong judgement on native capability, configuration, extension and customisation trade-offs.
• Experience establishing reusable patterns, standards and architecture governance.
• Proven architecture leadership and enterprise delivery experience remain essential.
• Experience in Corporate & Investment Banking, institutional banking, wholesale banking, markets, transaction banking or complex B2B financial services is highly desirable.
• Experience serving as the accountable architecture authority for a Salesforce platform, including ownership of target-state architecture, architecture roadmaps, technology standards and platform evolution.
• Salesforce Certifications
• Preferred
• Salesforce Application Architect
• Salesforce System Architect
• Salesforce Certified Data Architect
• Salesforce Integration Architect
• Highly Advantageous
• Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA)
• If you are a Salesforce FSC architect with deep enterprise architecture capability and CIB experience, and the idea of building the next generation of intelligent, client-led CRM excites you more than maintaining yesterday's architecture, we want to meet you.

Requirements

• Master's Degree: Information Technology

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce Application Architect
• Salesforce System Architect
• Salesforce Certified Data Architect
• Salesforce Integration Architect
• Highly Advantageous
• Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA)
• If you are a Salesforce FSC architect with deep enterprise architecture capability and CIB experience, and the idea of building the next generation of intelligent, client-led CRM excites you more than maintaining yesterday's architecture, we want to meet you.
• Education
• Master's Degree: Information Technology