Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect Certification

The Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect credential is intended for architects who assess the architecture environment and requirements; and designs sound, scalable, and performant solutions on the Customer 360 Platform.

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What is Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect Certification about?

The Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect Exam is intended for the architect who assesses the architecture environment and requirements; and designs sound, scalable, and performant solutions on the Customer 360 Platform. The Architect 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 Architect has experience communicating solutions and design trade-offs to business and IT stakeholders.

What are the objectives of Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect Certification ?

Design Scalable Data Models – Build and optimize high-performing, scalable data models that support complex business processes and high-volume data environments in Salesforce.
Ensure Data Governance & Compliance – Implement effective data governance strategies, including data quality, security, privacy, and compliance standards.
Integrate & Synchronize Data Across Systems – Design solutions for integrating Salesforce data with external systems while maintaining data integrity and performance.
Optimize Data Management & Performance – Plan for data storage, archiving, large data volumes, and performance tuning to ensure system reliability and efficiency.
Support Enterprise-Level Architecture Strategy – Align data architecture with enterprise goals, ensuring scalability, sustainability, and adherence to Salesforce best practices.

Who is Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect Certification for?

A Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect 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 (for example, 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 Platform Data Architect has the following background.

2 to 3 years of Salesforce experience
5+ years of experience supporting or implementing data-centric solutions

Typical job roles may include:

Advanced Administrator
Data Architect
Technical/Solution Architect
Advanced Platform Developer

The Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect 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 (LDV) 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 master data management (MDM) tools
Lightning development experience/expertise
Programming language(s)

Recommended but not required: Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder, Platform Developer, and Platform Developer II