Data Architect - Salesforce

Data Architect - Salesforce

Posted 1 day ago by V-Soft Consulting Group, Inc

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Summary: The Data Architect - Salesforce role involves providing expert guidance on Salesforce data architecture, integration, and governance for a premier client. The position requires a deep understanding of data modeling, enterprise architecture, and cost-effective design solutions. The architect will assess proposed designs, identify risks, and recommend best practices to ensure data integrity and alignment with business needs. This is a remote position aimed at enhancing data management strategies within Salesforce environments.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Review the proposed Salesforce object model, data model, relationships, ownership assumptions, and integration approach.
  • Assess whether the proposed design aligns with business needs, reporting needs, source data realities, and long-term supportability.
  • Identify data that should not be placed in Salesforce and recommend where that data should reside instead.
  • Recommend a cost-effective supporting data architecture for staging, transformation, reporting, integration, historical storage, and governance.
  • Review vendor-provided design documentation, data mapping assumptions, and architectural recommendations.
  • Identify risks related to Salesforce storage, custom objects, duplicate data, API usage, reporting limitations, licensing, governance, and technical debt.
  • Recommend source-of-truth ownership for key data domains.
  • Advise on integration and data flow patterns between Salesforce and other systems.
  • Help define decision criteria for whether data should be migrated, referenced, summarized, archived, or excluded.
  • Participate in design review sessions and provide written findings, risks, and recommendations.

Key Skills:

  • Experience in Salesforce data architecture and object modeling.
  • Knowledge of enterprise data architecture and data placement decisions.
  • Expertise in integration architecture involving Salesforce and external systems.
  • Familiarity with data warehousing, staging databases, reporting marts, lakehouse concepts, or other supporting data platforms.
  • Understanding of source-of-truth planning and data ownership models.
  • Proficiency in data governance, retention, quality control, and stewardship.
  • Ability to design cost-conscious platforms.
  • Experience in conducting independent design reviews during active implementation projects.
  • Strong analytical skills to challenge implementation recommendations constructively.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

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Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Data Architect - Salesforce (Remote)
Primary Location: Remote

V-Soft Consulting is currently hiring for a Data Architect - Salesforce (Remote) for our premier client.

Education and Experience »

  • The selected partner should provide data architects with experience in:
  • Salesforce data architecture and object modeling.
  • Enterprise data architecture and data placement decisions.
  • Integration architecture involving Salesforce and external systems.
  • Data warehousing, staging databases, reporting marts, lakehouse concepts, or other supporting data platforms.
  • Source-of-truth planning and data ownership models.
  • Data governance, retention, quality control, and stewardship.
  • Cost-conscious platform design.
  • Independent design review during active implementation projects.
  • Challenging implementation recommendations in a constructive and evidence-based way.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities »
Deliverables:
  • Salesforce data model review findings.
  • Data disposition recommendations.
  • Source-of-truth matrix.
  • Architecture risk and gap assessment.
  • Recommendations for data that should not reside in Salesforce.
  • Supporting data layer recommendations.
  • Integration and data flow recommendations.
  • Cost-control and technical debt concerns.
  • Governance and stewardship recommendations.
  • Executive-ready summary of major risks, decisions needed, and recommended actions.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:
Job Responsibilities:
  • Review the proposed Salesforce object model, data model, relationships, ownership assumptions, and integration approach.
  • Assess whether the proposed design aligns with business needs, reporting needs, source data realities, and long-term supportability.
  • Identify data that should not be placed in Salesforce and recommend where that data should reside instead.
  • Recommend a cost-effective supporting data architecture for staging, transformation, reporting, integration, historical storage, and governance.
  • Review vendor-provided design documentation, data mapping assumptions, and architectural recommendations.
  • Identify risks related to Salesforce storage, custom objects, duplicate data, API usage, reporting limitations, licensing, governance, and technical debt.
  • Recommend source-of-truth ownership for key data domains.
  • Advise on integration and data flow patterns between Salesforce and other systems.
  • Help define decision criteria for whether data should be migrated, referenced, summarized, archived, or excluded.
  • Participate in design review sessions and provide written findings, risks, and recommendations.

Objectives:
  • Independently validate proposed Salesforce data structures and related data architecture decisions.
  • Identify design risks before they become embedded in the build.
  • Determine what data should reside in Salesforce, remain in source systems, be archived, be summarized, or be managed in a separate data layer.
  • Review whether vendor recommendations support maintainability, reporting, integrations, governance, cost control, and long-term scalability.
  • Provide internal staff with objective architectural guidance during a fast-moving delivery cycle.
  • Reduce the risk of rushed decisions that prioritize implementation speed over proper data structure and sustainable design.

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V-Soft Consulting Group is recognized among the top 100 fastest growing staffing companies in North America, V-Soft Consulting Group is headquartered in Louisville, KY with strategic locations in India, Canada and the U.S. V-Soft is known as an agile, innovative technology services company holding several awards and distinctions and has a wide variety of partnerships across diverse technology stacks.

As a valued V-Soft Consultant, you’re eligible for full benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision), a 401(k) plan, competitive compensation and more. V-Soft is partnered with numerous Fortune 500 companies, exceptionally positioned to advance your career growth.

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