Sr Manager, Salesforce Architecture

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Job Description

As a Senior Salesforce Architect you will be accountable for the technical strategy architectural design platform governance and delivery excellence across Salesforce capabilities that power Kites enterprise systems. This role supports the Digital Platform team and collaborates across functions including Product Quality Commercial Clinical Supply Chain and enterprise shared services.

You will partner with global business and technical stakeholders to deliver scalable secure and compliant Salesforce solutions aligned with Kites broader digital and enterprise architecture vision. This is a key opportunity to shape the future of digital capabilities for a rapidly growing biopharma focused on lifesaving cell therapies. This role can be based in Santa Monica CA or Foster City CA.

You will be a key contributor within the Global IT Digital Platforms organization responsible for Salesforce platform strategy architecture standards technical governance and enterprisewide solution delivery.

Responsibilities:

This role evolves with organizational growth. Core responsibilities include:

Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Define and maintain enterprisegrade Salesforce architecture blueprints across Health Cloud Life Sciences Cloud Service Cloud Experience Cloud that are integrated with downstream systems.

• Lead endtoend solution design for complex multicloud highly integrated Salesforce capabilities.

• Establish and enforce technical standards integration patterns data models and architectural documentation.

• Provide technical and architectural governance across multiple concurrent initiatives.

• Lead the multiyear Salesforce platform roadmap aligning technical strategy with business growth and enterprise architecture.

• Introduce and scale AI/ML capabilities within applications including Einstein predictive analytics and GenAIdriven automation.

• Advise on functional and technical impacts related to ERP integrations master data and thirdparty API connections.

System Ownership & Platform Management

• Own the technical health reliability and lifecycle of businesscritical Salesforce applications.

• Oversee environment strategy release management security posture and GxP/compliance alignment.

• Ensure platform scalability performance optimization and proactive monitoring.

DevOps Engineering Excellence & Code Quality

• Lead CI/CD implementation using Gitbased workflows and deployment pipelines (Copado GitHub Azure DevOps or equivalent).

• Define and promote coding standards conduct code reviews and enforce secure coding practices.

• Drive automation across build test validation and deployment processes.

• Establish governance and process to left-shift defect management

• Champion engineering maturity through automated testing static code analysis and performance testing.

Stakeholder Engagement & Delivery Leadership

• Partner with Product Owners and Business Analysts to translate complex business needs into scalable solutions.

• Manage onshore/offshore development partners and ensure highquality delivery.

• Present technical recommendations and architectural decisions to senior leadership in clear businessaligned language.

• Provide highlevel estimation assess budget and resource impacts identify risks and propose mitigation strategies.

Integration & Data

• Architect integrations with ERP Manufacturing Quality Patient Operations and other enterprise platforms.

• Ensure robust data modeling MDM alignment and highquality data architecture across systems.

• Support APIdriven and eventdriven integration patterns.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree and Eight Years Experience

OR

Masters Degree and Six Years Experience

OR

Ph.D.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree with 5 years of progressive experience in Salesforce architecture

• Bachelors Degree with 7 years of relevant Salesforce architecture/technical leadership experience

• Experience working in regulated Life Sciences environment (GxP validation CFR Part 11) strongly preferred

• Prior experience leading multicloud Salesforce implementations at enterprise scale

Salesforce Expertise

• Extensive experience as a Senior Salesforce Architect in enterprise environments.

• Deep expertise across Health Cloud Life Sciences Cloud Service Cloud Experience Cloud and Platform.

• Handson experience with Unlocked Packages and 2ndGen Packaging including global product delivery models.

• Strong background designing solutions for Life Sciences in regulated environments with GxP validation and audit considerations.

• Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA)

• Salesforce Application Architect and/or System Architect

• Salesforce Certified Health Cloud Consultant

• Salesforce Platform Developer II

• Salesforce Platform App Builder

• Any additional domain certifications relevant to Service Cloud Experience Cloud or Integration Architecture

Technical & Engineering Skills

• Advanced proficiency in Apex Lightning Web Components OmniScripts Flows SOQL and eventdriven architectures.

• Strong experience with CI/CD automated testing frameworks and DevOps toolchains.

• Expertise with Gitbased version control and branching strategies.

• Deep understanding of API integrations (REST SOAP Mulesoft custom middleware).

• Strong command of multiorg strategies enterprise security models SSO and identity platforms.

Enterprise & CrossFunctional Skills

• Experience driving architecture for largescale global digital programs.

• Ability to present complex technical concepts in clear actionable terms for nontechnical stakeholders.

• Proven success managing offshore teams and global delivery models.

• Strong analytical problemsolving and decisionmaking capabilities.

Behaviors & Leadership Competencies

• Operate effectively in ambiguity and navigate shifting priorities with confidence.

• Take proactive ownership stepping in to drive resolution and provide endtoend leadership where needed.

• Engage and influence stakeholders across organizational boundaries.

• Demonstrate technical leadership accountability and sound judgment.

• Organized with excellent planning execution and followthrough.

• Act with integrity and exemplifies Kites core values.

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Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.

Kite is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies with a goal of providing rapid long-term durable response and eliminating the burden of chronic care. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune systems ability to recognize and kill tumors. Kite is based in Santa Monica CA. For more information on Kite please visit . Sign up to follow @KitePharma on Twitter at jobs in the United States:

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