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Headquartered in Baltimore, Mariner Finance operates coast-to-coast with physical locations in over half the states. With a growing number of employees, superior customer service remains the cornerstone of our business, and we pride ourselves in delivering a variety of loans with an enhanced focus on exceptional service. We work with customers to find options that are beneficial to their specific needs, which is why we are recognized by our customers as one of the community’s consumer finance companies of choice.\nBenefits:\nFor information regarding our benefits, please visit: https://www.marinerfinance.com/careers/benefits/\nAll full time employees are provided with a generous benefits package in addition to their monetary compensation. Learn more about it today.\nJob Details\nIn this role, you will...\nDrive the development, maintenance, and ongoing refinement of Salesforce architecture standards, solution patterns, technical design principles, and technical roadmaps across Salesforce applications, data models, integrations, security, automation, and development practices. Partner with business, technology, security, data, operations, and delivery leaders to align Salesforce architecture recommendations with business objectives, lending and loan origination workflows, regulatory expectations, enterprise technology standards, and long-term platform needs.\nServe as a Salesforce subject matter expert and trusted advisor, providing architecture guidance, evaluating Salesforce platform capabilities and emerging features, and shaping secure, scalable, cost-effective, and sustainable Salesforce solutions. Work through influence, matrixed collaboration, and design governance to promote alignment, consistency, quality, and informed decision-making across Salesforce delivery teams, integration teams, business stakeholders, and implementation partners.\nResponsibilities and Duties:\nDesign end-to-end Salesforce solutions across Financial Services Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Data Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and other Salesforce platform capabilities.\nTranslate approved business requirements and user stories into scalable technical architectures, with a focus on financial services, lending, loan origination workflows, and enterprise CRM capabilities.\nDeliver technical and non-technical architecture documentation for assigned initiatives, including data models, high-level architecture diagrams, integration architecture diagrams, security design documentation, and technical decision records.\nPartner with Business Analysts, Product Owners, and business stakeholders to align business processes with technical designs, ensuring solutions support the intended operating model and business outcomes.\nDefine and document Salesforce data models, integration patterns, security design considerations, automation patterns, and platform configuration standards.\nLead Salesforce solution design for system integrations (APIs, middleware, external systems) in partnership with MuleSoft development teams, enterprise integration teams, and external partners, including integrations with loan origination systems, credit decisioning platforms, and third-party financial services platforms.\nCollaborate with Enterprise Architects, Data Architects, and other domain architects to develop solution designs that are consistent with enterprise architecture principles, data strategy, integration standards, and technology roadmaps.\nParticipate in architecture reviews and design governance processes to support cross-platform alignment and architectural consistency.\nContribute to and enforce Salesforce architecture standards, development best practices, design patterns, and governance processes within the Salesforce delivery function.\nProvide technical leadership, solution guidance, and architecture oversight to developers, administrators, analysts, and partner resources across onshore and offshore teams to ensure adherence to approved solution designs, quality expectations, platform standards, and delivery objectives.\nConduct code reviews and solution design reviews to ensure adherence to Salesforce platform limits, performance expectations, security standards, and maintainability requirements.\nPartner with Business Analysts, Product Owners, and delivery teams during backlog refinement, technical story decomposition, sprint planning, and release planning to ensure work is technically sound and appropriately scoped.\nEvaluate solution options and clearly communicate tradeoffs related to scalability, maintainability, platform limits, technical debt, cost, implementation complexity, delivery timelines, security, and user experience.\nProvide architecture guidance to Salesforce Administrators and Developers to ensure configuration, automation, and custom development align with approved solution designs and platform standards.\nSupport architecture-level root cause analysis and remediation planning for complex Salesforce platform or integration issues.\nIdentify technical debt, platform risks, and architectural improvement opportunities; recommend practical remediation plans in partnership with CRM leadership and technology stakeholders.\nStay current with Salesforce releases, emerging capabilities, and architecture best practices, and assess their impact on Salesforce solution design and platform standards.\nSupport vendor and implementation partner design reviews to ensure recommendations align with Mariner standards, approved architecture, and long-term platform sustainability.\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Business Information Systems, or related field; additional applicable experience may be substituted for a degree.\nMinimum of eight (8) years of Salesforce platform experience, including Salesforce implementation, architecture, configuration, development, integration, or platform delivery.\nMinimum of three (3) years of experience acting as a Salesforce Architecture Lead, Solution Architect, Technical Architect, or similar senior Salesforce technical role.\nExpertise in Salesforce Financial Services Cloud and core Salesforce platform capabilities.\nExperience designing Salesforce solutions across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Data Cloud, Marketing Cloud, or other Salesforce ecosystem products.\nProven experience in Salesforce solution architecture and large-scale Salesforce implementations.\nStrong knowledge of Salesforce data modeling, security model, sharing architecture, automation, platform limits, performance considerations, and release impacts.\nStrong knowledge of Apex, Lightning Web Components, SOQL, Salesforce APIs, and Salesforce development practices.\nExperience designing and implementing integrations using REST APIs, SOAP APIs, middleware, ETL tools, MuleSoft, or comparable enterprise integration platforms.\nExperience working within a federated architecture model, partnering with Enterprise Architects, Data Architects, Security Architects, and delivery teams to develop integrated technology solutions.\nDemonstrated experience supporting Salesforce or enterprise technology solutions in financial services, consumer lending, banking, or a similarly regulated environment.\nExperience providing technical direction to distributed onshore/offshore development teams.\nExperience working in Agile/Scrum delivery models, including backlog refinement, technical story decomposition, sprint planning, and iterative delivery.\nAbility to translate business requirements into scalable and maintainable Salesforce technical designs.\nAbility to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.\nAbility to balance technical constraints, delivery timelines, business needs, security expectations, and long-term platform sustainability.\nSalesforce Certified Application Architect.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience with loan origination systems, credit decisioning platforms, customer servicing systems, data platforms, or third-party financial services providers.\nExperience designing Salesforce integrations with loan origination systems, credit decisioning platforms, customer servicing systems, data platforms, or third-party financial services providers.\nExperience with MuleSoft or comparable enterprise integration platforms.\nExperience with Jira and Bitbucket to support development lifecycle management, collaboration, and delivery tracking.\nExperience with Salesforce DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines, including Copado, Gearset, Salesforce DX, or similar tools.\nExperience in multi-org or enterprise-scale Salesforce environments.\nExposure to Salesforce Data Cloud and Marketing Cloud.\nExperience supporting architecture reviews, design governance, code reviews, technical decision documentation, and technical debt remediation.\nCertifications:Salesforce Certified System Architect\nSalesforce Certified Technical Architect\n\nHours of Work:\nWork hours will depend on the business hours of the time zone serviced.\nTo the extent permitted by law, the Company may, in its sole discretion, change the work schedule to address business needs.\nPhysical Demands:\nWhile performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit for extended periods; 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The employee is occasionally required to move about. The employee is required to be physically present in the office. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to twenty (20) pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.\nEEO:\nMariner Finance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, familial or caregiver status, citizenship status, status as a victim of domestic violence, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, or status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran. 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