Overview
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end solution design across the Salesforce platform, including data architecture, security model design, and integration strategy.
- Define system interactions and data flows between Salesforce and external systems (e.g., ERP, APIs), partnering with IT and external resources for implementation.
- Evaluate business requirements and translate them into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
- Make architectural recommendations in collaboration with IT, including system-of-record decisions and design tradeoffs.
- Ensure solutions align with platform best practices, performance standards, and long-term scalability.
- Partner with business stakeholders to identify opportunities for platform enhancements and process improvements.
- Assists with leadership of requirements gathering and solutioning sessions to align business goals with technical capabilities.
- Recommends the definition and prioritization of the Salesforce platform roadmap based on business impact and technical feasibility.
- Guide implementation of new features and enhancements, ensuring alignment with architectural standards.
- Assess new Salesforce releases and determine their impact on current architecture and future roadmap.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to Salesforce team members, supporting skill development and best practices.
- Establish reusable patterns (e.g., flows, Apex, integrations) to improve development efficiency and consistency.
- Review and guide solution designs and implementations to ensure quality and alignment with standards.
- Act as a subject matter expert for Salesforce across the organization.
- Oversee platform health, performance, and reliability, proactively identifying areas for optimization.
- Monitor usage and adoption, providing insights and recommendations to improve user experience and business outcomes.
- Support resolution of complex platform issues through root cause analysis and structured problem-solving.
- Ensure reporting, dashboards, and data structures support business decision making.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Additional years of direct experience designing and delivering Salesforce solutions may be considered in lieu of formal education.
- 5+ years of experience working with the Salesforce platform, including solution design and delivery across multiple clouds (e.g., Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, B2B Commerce).
- Experience designing and implementing Salesforce solutions, including data modeling, security design, and integration strategies across systems.
- Experience working with integrations, including leveraging existing APIs and partnering with technical teams to implement cross-system solutions.
- Experience leading requirements gathering, solution design, and delivery of scalable platform enhancements.
- Experience working with Agile methodologies and working within cross-functional delivery teams.
- Ability to evaluate complex business requirements and translate them into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
- Ability to assess the impact of new requirements across Salesforce and integrated systems, including upstream and downstream dependencies.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce platform capabilities, including declarative development (Flow), data architecture, security design, and basic programmatic development (SOQL, Apex, Lightning Web Components).
- Ability to guide architectural decisions and communicate technical concepts clearly to both business and technical stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and ability to identify process improvements and efficiencies.
- Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships and influence decision-making.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts clearly.
- Salesforce Platform Administrator certification required.
- Salesforce Platform Developer, Platform Data Architect, or Platform Sharing & Visibility Architect certifications preferred.
- Salesforce Application Architect certification strongly preferred.
Compensation and Benefits
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience working with the Salesforce platform
- Salesforce Platform Administrator certification
- Experience designing and implementing Salesforce solutions
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Salesforce Platform Developer certification preferred
- Salesforce Application Architect certification strongly preferred
What We Do
Allied Beverage Group, LLC (“Allied”), as it is known today, is a family owned company created by the historical mergers of The Baxter Group, Inc., F&A Distributing Company, and The Jaydor Corporation as well as the August 2017 combination with Breakthru Beverage New Jersey. Allied's predecessor companies were leaders of the wholesale wine and spirits industry in New Jersey dating back to the Repeal of Prohibition in the early 1930s. Allied has emerged as New Jersey's largest and most comprehensive wine and spirits distributor and ranks among the ten largest such distributors in the United States. Allied represents the product lines of the world's leading suppliers of beverage alcohol and related products as it services the needs of New Jersey's licensed package stores, restaurants, hotels, taverns and clubs. Allied's state of the art distribution facility and offices are located in Elizabeth, NJ. The company also has offices and cross dock facilities in Swedesboro, NJ.








