Senior Salesforce Architect, Information Technology (REMOTE AVAILABLE) [R0151297]

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Job Description The University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites applications for a Senior Salesforce Architect, Information Technology (REMOTE AVAILABLE) [R0151297].

ROLE of the POSITION SENIOR SALESFORCE ARCHITECT The Senior Salesforce Architect provides long-term, strategic, and technical leadership and direction for the university’s Salesforce ecosystem. Reporting to the COE Director, this role designs and governs scalable, secure solutions across Salesforce clouds (with emphasis on Education Cloud) and guides data and integration strategy, including Data 360 (formerly Data Cloud). The Architect partners with campus stakeholders to translate functional needs into trusted, easy, and adaptable technical designs; mentors the COE team; and contributes hands-on configuration and development for complex initiatives, prototypes, and shared accelerators. This role evaluates emerging capabilities (such as Agentforce) and recommends adoption approaches that improve outcomes for students, faculty, and staff.

The Senior Salesforce Architect is expected to: • Serves as a trusted advisor and technical partner to functional leaders, product owners, and delivery teams.

• Balance strategic roadmap planning with practical delivery constraints and iterative improvement.

• Communicate architecture tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences; facilitate alignment.

• Provide expert leadership through influence by mentoring teammates, establishing and reinforcing standards, documentation, and best practices.

The Senior Salesforce Architect has these responsibilities: • Define and maintain target-state architecture, reference patterns, and technical standards for the Salesforce portfolio.

• Lead solution design for major initiatives and provide hands-on support for high-complexity build work, prototyping, and troubleshooting as needed.

• Partner on enterprise integration and data governance, including data quality, identity resolution, and lifecycle management across systems.

• Establish and continuously improve delivery governance (architecture and code/design reviews, release and environment strategy, testing and quality controls) and guide adoption of platform innovations (Education Cloud, Data 360/Data Cloud, Agentforce).

Customer Service Expectations: This position is responsible for maintaining a customer-focused approach in all duties, ensuring professional, timely, and effective interactions with internal and external stakeholders. To provide excellent service the employee will: listen to customers and understand their needs; help customers solve problems; demonstrate an eagerness to help; exhibit a professional disposition; be approachable, respectful, and team-oriented; take ownership of inquiries and assignments; provide updates for customers; and be familiar with the basic operations of the university in order to understand customer needs better.

FLEXIBLE WORK – REMOTE ELIGIBLE This position has flexible work scheduling options available including hybrid and remote anywhere in the United States based on acceptable performance and organizational needs in alignment with the UNLV Flexible Work Policy for Flexible Work Arrangements at UNLV ( subject to approval ).

PROFILE of the OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY With a focus on excellent customer service, UNLV Information Technology (UNLV IT) provides a full range of IT services, from leadership and enterprise solutions to training and support, for our students, faculty, and staff. 

As a partner in teaching, learning, research, and administration at a Top-Tier university, we are seeking team members who value innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We believe that every person brings unique experiences and perspectives that strengthen our team and help us serve UNLV’s broad community with empathy, which is a key to our success.  

Applicants seeking a values-driven environment that celebrates individuality and that are committed to service are highly encouraged to apply. 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS SENIOR SALESFORCE ARCHITECT This position requires an earned Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university as recognized by the United States Department of Education and/or the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and 5+ years of Salesforce solution architecture, design, and delivery experience in complex/enterprise environments, including multi-cloud implementations, data modeling, and integration design with direct experience in Education Cloud/EDA or similar Industries Clouds solutions, and Data360 (formerly Data Cloud).

Must possess Salesforce Certified Administrator OR Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I , Platform App Builder, and at least   one additional architect or advanced Salesforce certification (e.g., Advanced Administrator, Platform Developer II, Application Architect, System Architect, Data Architect, etc) certifications   or   have   5+ years of experience supporting Salesforce at a college, university or employed in higher education consulting.

ACCEPTED EQUIVALENCIES FOR DEGREE REQUIREMENT UNLV may consider additional relevant experience in place of formal education requirements: • In lieu of a bachelor

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