Salesforce Capability, Architecture & Enablement Lead

Role Overview: As a Salesforce Capability, Architecture & Enablement Lead, you will play a crucial role in building and governing the Salesforce delivery capability. Your primary focus will be on ensuring strong architectural standards, developing scalable team skills, and readiness to deliver across Salesforce clouds and emerging platform areas. Key Responsibilities: - Track the Salesforce ecosystem roadmap including GenAI/Einstein, Data Cloud, Industries, and Hyperforce. Guide capability investments accordingly. - Build relationships with Salesforce Partner Success Managers and COE teams. Represent the organization in Salesforce partner councils and architect communities. - Define practice-wide strategy, service offerings, go-to-market capabilities, and specialization roadmap. Advise senior management on investments in new Salesforce technologies and emerging roles. - Define and maintain Salesforce Architecture Principles covering multi-cloud design. Establish an Architecture Review Board (ARB) to review key solutions for scalability, integration, and data strategy. - Maintain reference architectures for core use cases such as Lead-to-Cash, Service Excellence, Customer 360, and Industry Clouds. - Govern platform decisions across Salesforce Core, MuleSoft, Tableau, Slack, and Data Cloud. Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards, security policies, and DevOps/release management best practices. - Maintain a Salesforce Skills Inventory and Capability Matrix across roles, certifications, and cloud expertise. Forecast demand based on pipeline and Salesforce product roadmap. Identify capability gaps and plan new hires or reskilling accordingly. - Define target skill mix across developers, consultants, solution architects, technical architects, and platform engineers. - Create governance frameworks for project quality, adherence to architectural guardrails, design patterns, and platform limits. Perform periodic health checks, code reviews, and define and monitor architecture maturity KPIs. - Support pre-sales and solutioning with readiness assessments and architecture feasibility inputs. - Own the Salesforce Learning & Certification Framework for all practice members. Create and track learning paths across role hierarchies. Drive continuous enablement through Trailhead, internal learning pods, mentoring, and maintain partner-level certification compliance. - Curate a Salesforce Knowledge Repository of reusable assets, accelerators, and design blueprints. Qualification Required: - 12-18 years of experience in the Salesforce ecosystem with deep exposure to multiple Salesforce Clouds. - Minimum 5 years in architecture, platform engineering, or technical leadership. - Demonstrated experience in practice enablement, workforce planning, and architecture governance. - Familiarity with Salesforce Well-Architected Framework, CTA review processes, and partner compliance programs. - Excellent stakeholder management and leadership skills; ability to align delivery, HR, and strategic leadership.,