Salesforce Architect
Ness Digital Engineering•New York, NY
5d
About The Position
We are seeking a highly experienced Salesforce Principal Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale Salesforce solutions. This role is responsible for defining architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and driving large transformation programs across multiple clouds and integrations.
Requirements
- 12–18+ years of experience in enterprise technology, with 8+ years on Salesforce
- Proven experience as a Lead/Principal Architect on large-scale Salesforce programs
- Deep expertise across: Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud
- Integration patterns (REST, event-driven, MuleSoft)
- Data architecture & governance
- Strong understanding of: Enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF or similar)
- Security, scalability, and performance design
Nice To Haves
- Salesforce Certifications: Certified Architect or multiple architect certifications
- Application Architect & System Architect
- Experience with: Salesforce Data Cloud
- Industry Clouds (FSC etc.)
- DevOps tools (Copado, Gearset, GitHub Actions)
- Exposure to AI/GenAI implementations within Salesforce ecosystem
Responsibilities
- Define end-to-end Salesforce architecture across Sales, Service, Experience, Data Cloud, and Industry Clouds
- Establish scalable, secure, and high-performing solution designs
- Own architecture governance, standards, and best practices
- Lead large, complex transformation programs (multi-org, multi-cloud)
- Provide technical leadership across squads/teams
- Ensure quality, scalability, and maintainability of solutions
- Partner with C-level executives, business leaders, and IT stakeholders
- Translate business strategy into technology roadmaps
- Act as a trusted advisor to clients and internal leadership
- Define API-led architecture (MuleSoft or similar)
- Drive enterprise data strategy including MDM, Data Cloud, and analytics
- Ensure seamless integration with external systems (ERP, data platforms, etc.)
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI (Agentforce, Einstein, GenAI)
- Drive adoption of emerging Salesforce capabilities
- Establish Center of Excellence (CoE) frameworks
- Define DevOps, CI/CD, and release management strategies
- Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements
- Support solutioning, proposals, and client pitches
- Mentor architects and developers
- Contribute to capability building and reusable assets
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
