Salesforce Architect

Mariner Finance•Nottingham, MD

5d•$150,675 - $195,950•Onsite

About The Position

The Salesforce Architect drives the development, maintenance, and refinement of Salesforce architecture standards, solution patterns, technical design principles, and roadmaps across Salesforce applications, data models, integrations, security, automation, and development practices. The role partners with business, technology, security, data, operations, and delivery leaders to align architecture recommendations with business objectives, lending and loan origination workflows, regulatory expectations, enterprise standards, and long-term platform needs. Serving as a Salesforce subject matter expert and trusted advisor, the architect evaluates platform capabilities and emerging features and shapes secure, scalable, cost-effective, and sustainable Salesforce solutions. The role uses influence, matrixed collaboration, and design governance to promote alignment, consistency, quality, and informed decision-making among Salesforce delivery teams, integration teams, business stakeholders, and implementation partners. The architect provides end-to-end solution design and technical leadership across Salesforce clouds and integrations, creates architecture documentation, contributes to enterprise architecture alignment, and guides delivery teams through design, implementation, review, and remediation. The position requires physical presence in the office. Work hours depend on the business hours of the time zone serviced, and the company may change the schedule to address business needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Business Information Systems, or a related field; additional applicable experience may be substituted for a degree.
At least eight years of Salesforce platform experience, including implementation, architecture, configuration, development, integration, or platform delivery.
At least three years of experience as a Salesforce Architecture Lead, Solution Architect, Technical Architect, or in a similar senior Salesforce technical role.
Expertise in Salesforce Financial Services Cloud and core Salesforce platform capabilities.
Experience designing Salesforce solutions across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Data Cloud, Marketing Cloud, or other Salesforce ecosystem products.
Proven experience in Salesforce solution architecture and large-scale Salesforce implementations.
Strong knowledge of Salesforce data modeling, security model, sharing architecture, automation, platform limits, performance considerations, and release impacts.
Strong knowledge of Apex, Lightning Web Components, SOQL, Salesforce APIs, and Salesforce development practices.
Experience designing and implementing integrations using REST APIs, SOAP APIs, middleware, ETL tools, MuleSoft, or comparable enterprise integration platforms.
Experience in a federated architecture model, partnering with Enterprise Architects, Data Architects, Security Architects, and delivery teams on integrated technology solutions.
Experience supporting Salesforce or enterprise technology solutions in financial services, consumer lending, banking, or a similarly regulated environment.
Experience providing technical direction to distributed onshore and offshore development teams.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery models, including backlog refinement, technical story decomposition, sprint planning, and iterative delivery.
Ability to translate business requirements into scalable and maintainable Salesforce technical designs.
Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
Ability to balance technical constraints, delivery timelines, business needs, security expectations, and long-term platform sustainability.
Salesforce Certified Application Architect.

Nice To Haves

Experience with loan origination systems, credit decisioning platforms, customer servicing systems, data platforms, or third-party financial services providers.
Experience designing Salesforce integrations with loan origination systems, credit decisioning platforms, customer servicing systems, data platforms, or third-party financial services providers.
Experience with MuleSoft or comparable enterprise integration platforms.
Experience with Jira and Bitbucket for development lifecycle management, collaboration, and delivery tracking.
Experience with Salesforce DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines, including Copado, Gearset, Salesforce DX, or similar tools.
Experience in multi-org or enterprise-scale Salesforce environments.
Exposure to Salesforce Data Cloud and Marketing Cloud.
Experience supporting architecture reviews, design governance, code reviews, technical decision documentation, and technical debt remediation.
Salesforce Certified System Architect certification.
Salesforce Certified Technical Architect certification.

Responsibilities

Design end-to-end Salesforce solutions across Financial Services Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Data Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and other Salesforce platform capabilities.
Translate approved business requirements and user stories into scalable technical architectures, particularly for financial services, lending, loan origination workflows, and enterprise CRM capabilities.
Prepare technical and non-technical architecture documentation, including data models, high-level architecture diagrams, integration architecture diagrams, security design documentation, and technical decision records.
Partner with Business Analysts, Product Owners, and business stakeholders to align business processes with technical designs and intended operating models and outcomes.
Define and document Salesforce data models, integration patterns, security design considerations, automation patterns, and platform configuration standards.
Lead Salesforce solution design for integrations involving APIs, middleware, external systems, loan origination systems, credit decisioning platforms, and third-party financial services platforms, in partnership with MuleSoft developers, enterprise integration teams, and external partners.
Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Data Architects, and other domain architects to align solution designs with enterprise architecture principles, data strategy, integration standards, and technology roadmaps.
Participate in architecture reviews and design governance to support cross-platform alignment and architectural consistency.
Contribute to and enforce Salesforce architecture standards, development best practices, design patterns, and governance processes.
Provide technical leadership, solution guidance, and architecture oversight to developers, administrators, analysts, and onshore and offshore partner resources.
Conduct code and solution design reviews to ensure adherence to platform limits, performance expectations, security standards, and maintainability requirements.
Partner with Business Analysts, Product Owners, and delivery teams during backlog refinement, technical story decomposition, sprint planning, and release planning.
Evaluate solution options and communicate tradeoffs involving scalability, maintainability, platform limits, technical debt, cost, implementation complexity, delivery timelines, security, and user experience.
Guide Salesforce Administrators and Developers so configuration, automation, and custom development align with approved designs and platform standards.
Support architecture-level root cause analysis and remediation planning for complex Salesforce platform or integration issues.
Identify technical debt, platform risks, and architectural improvement opportunities and recommend practical remediation plans with CRM leadership and technology stakeholders.
Stay current with Salesforce releases, emerging capabilities, and architecture best practices, assessing their impact on solution design and platform standards.
Review vendor and implementation partner designs to ensure alignment with company standards, approved architecture, and long-term platform sustainability.