The Salesforce Certified Data Architecture and Management Designer credential is intended for the designer who assesses the architecture environment and requirements; and designs sound, scalable, and performant solutions on the Customer 360 platform. The Designer will also have experience working with the following:
Data Modeling & Database Design
Master Data Management
Salesforce Data Management
Data Governance
Large Data Volume Considerations
Data Migration
The designer has experience communicating solutions and design trade-offs to business and IT stakeholders.
A Salesforce Certified Data Architecture and Management Designer assesses the architecture environment and requirements and designs sound, scalable, and performant solutions on the Customer 360 Platform as it pertains to enterprise data management. The candidate is knowledgeable about information architecture frameworks covering major building blocks, such as data sourcing, integration/movement, persistence, master data management, metadata management and semantic reconciliation, data governance, security, and delivery.
The candidate also has experience assessing customers' requirements in regards to data quality needs and creating solutions to ensure high quality data (e.g. no duplicates, correct data) and can also recommend organizational changes to ensure proper data stewardship. The candidate has experience communicating solutions and design trade-offs to business stakeholders.
The Salesforce Certified Data Architecture and Management Designer has the following background:
Typical job roles may include:
The Salesforce Certified Data Architecture and Management Designer candidate has the experience, skills, and knowledge of the following:
Data modeling/Database Design
Custom fields, master detail, lookup relationships
Client requirements and mapping to database requirements
Standard object structure for sales and service cloud
Making best use of Salesforce standard and big objects
Association between standard objects and Salesforce license types
Large Data Volume considerations
Indexing, LDV migrations, performance
Salesforce Platform declarative and programming concepts
Scripting using those tools (Data loader, ETL platforms)
Data Stewardship
Data Quality Skills (concerned with clean data)
A candidate for this exam is not expected to know the following:
Non-Salesforce Technology/Database Concepts
Configuration of Integration tools
Experience with MDM Tools (Master Data Management)
Lightning Development Experience/Expertise
Programming Language(s)
Recommended by not required - Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder, Platform Developer I, and Platform Developer II.
