Salesforce Cloud Architect

The Lisinski Law Firm•Columbus, OH

About The Position

Shape the Salesforce ecosystem that powers the Firm’s growth. As our Salesforce Cloud Architect, you’ll bring hands-on technical leadership to the design and implementation of scalable solutions across Sales Cloud, Revenue Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Service Cloud. You’ll tackle complex business challenges through custom development, automation, high-volume data structures, and document-centric workflows—helping teams work more efficiently and building a platform that grows with the Firm. Working closely with product owners, developers, and business stakeholders, you’ll guide architectural decisions and deliver secure, maintainable, high-performing solutions that turn business priorities into meaningful results.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
6-10 years of Salesforce experience, including at least 3 years in an architect role focused on cloud development.
Salesforce Certified Application Architect or Salesforce Certified System Architect credential strongly preferred; Salesforce Certified Technical Architect certification is a plus.
Demonstrated experience architecting solutions across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Revenue Cloud, Experience Cloud, and the broader Salesforce Platform.
Proven experience designing scalable integrations between Salesforce and enterprise applications using APIs, middleware, event-driven architecture, and related integration technologies.
Experience establishing Salesforce development, testing, deployment, release-management, and platform-governance standards using tools such as Gearset, Copado, Jenkins, or Salesforce DX.
Experience designing data-intensive and document-centric workflows involving automated document generation, optical character recognition, electronic signatures, storage, and secure information sharing.
Demonstrated ability to evaluate technical debt, modernize legacy solutions, and design secure, maintainable architecture that supports long-term platform scalability.
Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments and partnering with product owners, business analysts, developers, administrators, and enterprise technology teams.
Decision Quality: Evaluates complex business and technical requirements to select Salesforce solutions that appropriately balance scalability, security, performance, maintainability, user needs, and long-term business value.
Drives Results: Translates architecture strategy into secure, reliable, and high-performing Salesforce solutions that improve automation, operational efficiency, platform stability, and the user experience.
Manages Complexity: Integrates complex business processes, high-volume data structures, document-centric workflows, security requirements, and enterprise systems into cohesive multi-cloud Salesforce architecture.
Optimizes Work Processes: Identifies opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce technical debt, strengthen platform governance, and apply automation or emerging Salesforce capabilities to improve efficiency and reliability.
Communicates Effectively: Clearly explains architectural decisions, technical risks, standards, and solution recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders while leading design discussions and promoting alignment across teams.
Advanced knowledge of Salesforce architecture, including data modeling, platform limits, security and sharing models, identity and access management, multi-org environments, and integration patterns.
Strong hands-on knowledge of Apex, Lightning Web Components, Visualforce, Salesforce Flow, Agentforce, Einstein AI, and Salesforce APIs, including REST and SOAP services.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to explain complex architectural concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences.

Nice To Haves

Salesforce Certified Technical Architect certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

Design end-to-end Salesforce architecture across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Revenue Cloud, Experience Cloud, and the Salesforce Platform to address complex business and technical requirements.
Define the long-term Salesforce architecture strategy, platform roadmap, and technical standards for scalability, performance, security, reliability, and maintainability.
Evaluate business requirements and determine the appropriate use of native Salesforce capabilities, configuration, automation, custom development, and third-party solutions.
Design scalable data models and automated workflows for complex, high-volume, and document-centric operations, including document generation, electronic signatures, optical character recognition, storage, and secure sharing.
Establish reliable integration architecture between Salesforce and enterprise applications using APIs, middleware, event-driven solutions, and other appropriate integration patterns.
Lead technical design sessions and provide architectural oversight for custom object modeling, Apex, Lightning Web Components, Salesforce Flow, APIs, and third-party integrations.
Define and enforce platform governance, security architecture, code review, testing, release management, documentation, and deployment standards.
Monitor platform performance, capacity, health, and Salesforce limits while identifying opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency, and the user experience.
Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and data teams to align Salesforce solutions with business and technology objectives.
Evaluate emerging Salesforce capabilities, address technical debt and legacy customizations, and mentor technical teams in architecture principles, development standards, and platform best practices.