Advanced Salesforce Architect
About The Position
As an Advanced Salesforce Architect, you will design and deliver enterprise-scale Salesforce applications across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Data Cloud, Agentforce, and custom Salesforce Platform solutions. You will provide hands-on architecture and engineering expertise to create secure, scalable, maintainable solutions that support business growth, operational excellence, and customer success. You will serve as a senior individual contributor, working with Salesforce architects, developers, quality engineers, product teams, enterprise architects, and business stakeholders. You will translate complex business needs into practical platform designs and guide delivery teams through implementation without direct people-management responsibility. The role requires deep expertise in custom Salesforce application development and involvement in solution design, code and design reviews, troubleshooting, delivery, technical governance, and modern engineering practices. You will report directly to the Director of R&D and work from the Hamilton, New Jersey location on a three-day-in-office hybrid schedule.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of software engineering, solution architecture, or application development experience.
- At least 5 years of hands-on Salesforce development and architecture experience, including designing and building enterprise-scale applications on the Salesforce Platform.
- Strong expertise in Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Salesforce Flows, APIs, Platform Events, integration architecture, data modeling, and Salesforce security and sharing architecture.
- Experience designing, developing, or supporting Salesforce managed packages within an ISV or product engineering environment.
- Proven ability to lead solution design for complex initiatives, mentor engineers through implementation, and work within DevOps, CI/CD, source control, automated testing, and Agile delivery environments.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
- Salesforce Application Architect, System Architect, Platform Developer II, or Certified Technical Architect (CTA) credentials.
- Experience with Salesforce Data Cloud, Agentforce, Einstein AI, MuleSoft, and Industry Clouds.
- Knowledge of AWS, Microsoft Azure, and enterprise cloud architecture patterns.
- Strong understanding of microservices, API management, event-driven systems, and modern integration architectures.
- Experience with packaging, subscriber support, security review, release management, and upgrade strategies for Salesforce ISV solutions.
- Strong technical communication, problem-solving, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to influence technical direction through expertise, evidence, and collaboration without direct authority.
Responsibilities
- Design secure, scalable, high-performing Salesforce solutions supporting enterprise business processes and managed-package products.
- Develop solution architectures, technical designs, data models, security models, integration patterns, and deployment approaches.
- Contribute to Salesforce architecture standards, reusable frameworks, governance practices, and platform roadmaps.
- Lead technical design reviews and provide architecture guidance for complex platform initiatives.
- Evaluate and apply Salesforce Data Cloud, Agentforce, Einstein AI, and emerging platform capabilities where they provide measurable value.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for custom applications built with Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flows, Visualforce, APIs, and Platform Events.
- Create reference implementations, prototypes, and reusable components for complex or high-risk capabilities.
- Guide developers through code and design reviews, performance optimization, automated testing, and defect resolution.
- Apply CI/CD automation, source control, automated quality gates, and Salesforce DevOps best practices.
- Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, performance, security, reliability, maintainability, and upgradeability.
- Support application lifecycle management for Salesforce managed packages and enterprise deployments.
- Architect integrations connecting Salesforce with ERP systems, data platforms, marketing systems, cloud platforms, and external applications.
- Define API-first, event-driven, and service-oriented integration patterns using appropriate Salesforce and middleware capabilities.
- Partner with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, and data teams to align designs with enterprise standards and data strategies.
- Troubleshoot complex integration, data, security, and platform performance issues across distributed systems.
- Ensure designs comply with enterprise security, governance, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to translate requirements into solution options, estimates, risks, and technical recommendations.
- Partner with Salesforce and other technology vendors to validate platform capabilities and resolve product-level issues.
- Communicate architecture decisions, trade-offs, dependencies, and delivery risks to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Mentor engineers and share technical knowledge through design sessions, pairing, documentation, and communities of practice.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of architecture, engineering, testing, and release practices.
Benefits
- Employer-subsidized medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- 401(k) match.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Educational assistance.
- Parental leave.
- Paid time off for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave.
- 12 paid holidays.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
