Senior Salesforce Architect - Lesaka Merchant (1 Post)

🚀 Senior Salesforce Architect

📍 Location: Gauteng
📂 Business Unit: Merchant Division
🧩 Department: CRM
💼 Employment: Permanent

⭐ Role Purpose

We seek a highly experienced Senior Salesforce Architect to provide technical leadership, architectural governance, and long-term strategic direction for our Salesforce CRM ecosystem. This senior role is responsible for designing scalable, secure, future-proof architectures that support complex merchant and business requirements across the Merchant Division.

You will serve as the technical authority for all Salesforce platforms, ensuring best-practice implementation, architectural integrity, and alignment to enterprise standards.

🔍 Key Responsibilities

🏗️ Technical Architecture & Design

• Lead the technical architecture and design of Salesforce solutions, including multi-org strategies
• Define data models, integration patterns, and enterprise security frameworks
• Oversee architectural feasibility, performance tuning, and technical debt management

🔧 Salesforce Ecosystem Governance

• Evaluate new Salesforce features, tools, and products such as Einstein and MuleSoft
• Review and approve complex development designs
• Provide governance and best practices across CRM projects

🤝 Collaboration & Solution Leadership

• Translate business requirements into robust, scalable technical designs
• Work closely with developers, product managers, and stakeholders
• Ensure business needs are met with enterprise-grade technical solutions

👥 Leadership, Mentoring & Enablement

• Mentor Salesforce developers and technical teams
• Drive architectural excellence across the CRM function
• Share technical knowledge, ensuring alignment to enterprise standards

🎓 Experience & Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Multiple Salesforce Architect certifications (e.g., Application Architect, Technical Architect)
• 8+ years of Salesforce experience
• 3–5 years in Salesforce architecture or equivalent senior roles
• Deep expertise in Apex, Lightning, integrations, API design, and enterprise patterns

Preferred

• Experience in enterprise-level Salesforce environments
• Exposure to AI-based tools (Einstein), middleware (MuleSoft), and complex integrations

🌟 Our Values

At Lesaka Merchant, we are guided by four core values:
✔ Entrepreneurial Spirit – We innovate boldly and act with ownership
✔ Integrity – We operate with honesty, trust, and transparency
✔ Collective Wisdom – We collaborate and leverage shared expertise
✔ Bias to Action – We deliver with urgency, discipline, and focus

📌 Preference will be made to support EE / AA measures.