Salesforce Enterprise Architect

About the Role

At Regions, the Enterprise Architect oversees multiple dimensions of assigned applications and/or capabilities including stability, life cycle management, version control, design and development of technology solutions, mapping of business requirements to capability-oriented technical requirements, and ensuring technology solutions meet business needs in accordance with the enterprise architectural roadmap, guidelines, and standards.

Responsibilities

• Manages end-to-end enterprise architectures from conception, through delivery, into production.
• Partners with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions.
• Leads the design and modeling of tactical architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects.
• Designs both the physical and logical components of solution architectures to deliver positive business outcomes.
• Collaborates with other domain architects to provide consensus-based, scalable, and adaptable architectural solutions.
• Oversees technical analysis and design capabilities.
• Facilitates technology design workshops for emerging technologies.
• Validates designs produced by third-party vendors wishing to sell solutions to the organization.
• Aligns IT strategy and planning with the company’s business goals and objectives.
• Promotes the use of a shared infrastructure and application roadmap to reduce costs and improve information flow.
• Collaborates on roadmaps to align information technology priorities with business partner requirements and strategies.
• Builds and maintains technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision-makers within Technology.
• Works with developers to ensure technical solutions align with overall IT architecture frameworks and design guidelines.
• Works with Portfolio technology leaders to include technical debt initiatives in the portfolio roadmap.
• Oversees data integration and configuration.
• Provides consultation on the most complex projects.
• Leads the work of others.
• Partners across Technology, Operations, Digital, and Data (TODD) to ensure controls are designed, implemented, and monitored to strengthen risk management, compliance, and cybersecurity.
• Practices disciplined change management by evaluating risk and control impacts when designing or implementing changes to processes, systems, products, and/or services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field and ten (10) years of enterprise, solutions, and/or technical architecture experience.
• Experience with N-tier architectures and complex design architectures.
• Experience with technical, application, and information architecture delivery techniques and methodologies.
• Experience with Agile methods.

Qualifications

Required Certifications/Licensures

Certifications in the technology domain of the enterprise.

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to interpret and ensure compliance with applicable rules, regulations, and industry guidance.
• Understanding of, and ability to use, design patterns to steer business requirements into enterprise-wide technical strategies.
• Awareness and ability to document designs using internal and external notational standards (Business Process Model and Notation {BPMN}, Unified Modeling Language {UML}).
• Hands-on experience in one or more popular programming languages like Java, Go, C#, Rust, Python, etc.
• Knowledge of security design techniques.
• Understanding of the technology of the organization, e.g., Middleware, .NET, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Oracle, etc.
• Working knowledge of modern Operating Systems (Linux/Windows), Networking, Servers/Mainframe, Secure Coding Practices, Development Environments (Java/.Net), Databases (DB2/Oracle/SQL Server).

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Salesforce platform architecture, with the ability to define how Salesforce should be optimally designed and used across the enterprise.
• Establishes enterprise-wide Salesforce architecture standards, patterns, and guardrails to ensure scalable, secure, and governed implementations.
• Translates business strategy into a Salesforce capability roadmap, aligning platform usage to customer experience, growth, and digital transformation goals.
• Acts as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders, guiding decisions on when and how to leverage Salesforce vs. other platforms.
• Proven experience serving as an Enterprise Architect within a financial services organization driving enterprise technology strategy and architecture decisions.
• Demonstrated success leading or supporting Salesforce implementations in financial services environments.

Schedule

This position is intended to be onsite, now or in the near future. Associates will have regular work hours, including full days in the office three or more days a week. The manager will set the work schedule for this position, including in-office expectations.

Pay

Pay ranges are job-specific and provided as a point-of-market reference for compensation decisions. The target information listed below is based on the Metropolitan Statistical Area Market Range for where the position is located and level of the position.

• Minimum Job Range Target: $170,048.45 USD
• Median: $209,120.00 USD

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary incentive plan and the Long-Term Incentive Plan.

Benefits

Regions offers a flexible, comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Paid Vacation/Sick Time
• 401K with Company Match
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• Disability Benefits
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Associate Volunteer Program

Location: Hoover, Alabama (Birmingham metro area). Available locations for this role also include Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; or Charlotte, NC.

Regions will not provide relocation assistance or sponsor applicants for work visas for this position. Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.