Sopra Steria: Salesforce Architect — Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

About Sopra Steria

Sopra Steria provides technology consulting, digital services and software solutions. Its employer description focuses on helping organisations change their operations through technology, combining business-sector knowledge with digital delivery. The business offers end-to-end support rather than describing its work as software coding alone. Its services connect an organisation's requirements with the technology and processes used to meet them, with an emphasis on practical, sustained improvements in how client organisations operate.

The position and its setting

Sopra Steria lists Salesforce Architect in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, under reference CHE0006216. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Engineering, Development, Applications
• Employment type: Full-time
• Employer listing date: 21 April 2026
• Brands: Sopra Steria

Responsibilities and work described

• This role bridges business vision and technical execution, ensuring Salesforce solutions are robust, future‑ready, and aligned with enterprise standards
• Architecture & Product Ownership
• Own the end‑to‑end Salesforce product architecture across Service, Experience, and Public Sector Clouds
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and high‑performance scalable Salesforce solutions
• Partner with product owners and business stakeholders to define roadmaps and priorities
• Design: and govern Salesforce security and sharing
• Design: secure integrations with core financial systems
• Establishment: and enforce Salesforce architectural standards, guardrails, and best practices
• Define and maintain High‑Level and Low‑Level Designs (HLD/LLD) aligned with enterprise architecture standards
• Act as the design authority for Salesforce solutions across multiple delivery teams
• Collaboration: with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and QA teams
• Support: release planning, deployment strategies, and environment management
• Review: solution designs and code for compliance and architectural integrity
• Delivery: technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance to delivery teams
• Apply API‑led and event‑driven architectures (REST, SOAP, Platform Events)
• Support: release governance, CI/CD pipelines, and environment strategies

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Salesforce Expertise
• Apex Architecture & Design Patterns
• Knowledge: Apex design patterns and enterprise application architecture
• Clear separation of concerns between UI, business logic, and data access
• Experience designing frameworks that scale across multiple teams
• Experience with:
• Service Cloud, Experience Cloud
• Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC)
• Salesforce data model and security framework
• Deep understanding of governor limits, performance, and scalability
• Public Cloud & Integration Architecture
• Experience integrating Salesforce with public cloud platforms (AWS/SharePoint)
• API‑led architecture (REST, SOAP)
• Event‑driven integrations (Platform Events, Change Data Capture)
• Secure middleware integration (e.g., MuleSoft)
• Data Governance and Quality
• Designing data management solution, including data models, Large Data Volume strategies
• Compliance & Data Protection
• Data classification and retention strategies
• GDPR / data privacy‑aware solution design

Experience and professional background

• Total Experience Expected: 08-10 years

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Work arrangement: On-site
• Advertised location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Sopra Steria

Applications follow the official employer page linked below.

Open the official Sopra Steria posting below and match the title and reference CHE0006216.

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Practical preparation: CI/CD

CI/CD experience should describe the path from a proposed change to a release. Identify the checks, build artefacts and deployment steps you worked on, together with the problem the pipeline solved.

Relevant skills

• CI/CD
• AWS
• REST APIs
• APIs
• Salesforce
• Git
• compliance
• stakeholder management