Head Salesforce Solution & Org Architect

Job Title: Head Salesforce Solution & Org Architect Company: Absa Group Job Category: Salesforce Roles & Responsibilities: Belonging at Absa Absa is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from suitably qualified individuals from diverse backgrounds. In support of our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) commitments and Employment Equity objectives, preference may be given to candidates from underrepresented designated groups, including persons with disabilities. We encourage applicants who may require reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process to let us know so that appropriate support can be provided.* Job Summary Ensure that CIB’s Salesforce estate evolves as a secure, scalable, connected and sustainable enterprise platform. The role 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. Job Description What if your next Salesforce architecture didn't just transform a CRM, but helped reinvent how a Corporate \& Investment Bank engages its clients? Your mission: You will provide architecture leadership across three connected disciplines: Solution Architecture, Org Architecture and Architecture Leadership. * 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. 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. Work Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Availability: Full time

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. 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 Education Master's Degree: Information Technology Key Skills: Salesforce, Salesforce Integration Salary: Not disclosed