Salesforce Solution Architect, Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton • Arlington, VA

1d • Remote

About The Position

Salesforce Solution Architect, Lead The Opportunity: Booz Allen is seeking a Lead Salesforce Solution Architect to support a large-scale modernization effort focused on legacy HR and personnel applications. In this role, you will architect the target CRM/SaaS solution for modernization of legacy HR systems, with a primary focus on Salesforce, Public Sector Solutions (PSS), and Omnistudio, and integration with adjacent enterprise services. You will define application architecture, platform patterns, security model, reuse strategy, technical standards, and migration paths to enable phased modernization of legacy applications into a secure, scalable, and maintainable target environment. You will work across business, product, engineering, integration, and cybersecurity teams to assess legacy applications, rationalize target-state architecture, and shape the technical blueprint and migration roadmap for modernization at enterprise scale. The ideal candidate brings strong experience in Salesforce development and architecture using PSS and Omnistudio, including configuration versus code decisions, security model design, packaging strategy, platform limits, integration patterns, data migration, and large-scale modernization. This role requires sound architectural judgment, strong communication skills, and the ability to operate effectively in a complex legacy environment with multiple systems, dependencies, and stakeholders. Work with us as we transform the future of technology in Air Power for the better. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience with enterprise application delivery, software architecture, or application modernization programs
• 5+ years of experience with Salesforce platform architecture, solution design, configuration, and customization in enterprise environments
• Experience with Salesforce Public Sector Solutions (PSS) and Omnistudio in complex enterprise implementations
• Experience successfully delivering complex projects
• Knowledge of Salesforce, PSS, and OmniStudio architecture, including configuration versus custom code decisions, security model design, packaging strategy, platform limits, integration patterns, data migration and large-scale modernization approaches
• Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, API-led connectivity, data dependencies, and technical blueprinting needed to modernize legacy applications into a broader SaaS CRM environment
• Ability to architect the target SaaS CRM solution for modernization of legacy HR applications, including defining application architecture, platform patterns, security model, reuse strategy, technical standards, and migration paths across Salesforce PSS and adjacent enterprise services, and lead discovery sessions, translate business requirements into future-state solution designs, and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to mission and delivery stakeholders
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree
• Salesforce Certified Application Architect Certification

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting modernization of HR, personnel, case management, or other mission-support enterprise applications in federal or DoD environments
• Experience contributing to application rationalization, technical blueprinting, migration sequencing, or modernization roadmap development across a portfolio of legacy applications
• Experience documenting business processes and system designs using workflow diagrams, UML, sequence diagrams, or similar artifacts to support future-state architecture and delivery planning
• Experience in public sector digital transformation initiatives
• Knowledge of human-centered discovery methods, reusable API patterns, governed data migration, and phased modernization delivery in enterprise transformation efforts
• Ability to serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior client and delivery stakeholders and guide teams through architectural risk, dependency, and solution-quality decisions
• Possession of strong customer relationship management and communication skills
• Salesforce certifications such as System Architect, Omnistudio Consultant, Omnistudio Developer, Platform Developer 2, Public Sector Solutions Accredited Professional, or other relevant platform certifications

Responsibilities

• Architect the target SaaS CRM solution for modernization of legacy HR and personnel applications using Salesforce platform features, PSS, Omnistudio, and adjacent enterprise services.
• Define target-state application architecture, platform patterns, security model, reuse strategy, technical standards, and migration approaches for modernization of legacy applications.
• Lead architecture decisions across Salesforce-based capabilities and related enterprise services, balancing speed, maintainability, platform constraints, security, and long-term scalability.
• Assess legacy applications, workflows, data dependencies, and technical debt to help define modernization paths, including refactoring, re-platforming, consolidation, retirement, and reuse.
• Make and defend sound configuration versus custom code decisions based on business need, platform capabilities, maintainability, upgradeability, and delivery risk.
• Define secure and scalable design patterns for case management, workflows, data exchange, integration, user experience, and operational support.
• Establish and follow Salesforce architecture standards for security, access model, data model, packaging, release strategy, environment strategy, and platform governance
• Define and document integration patterns between Salesforce and adjacent enterprise systems and services, including APIs, middleware, identity and access services, event-driven interfaces, and batch integrations, as appropriate.
• Support development of modernization outputs, including application architecture recommendations, target technical blueprints, migration sequencing, and implementation roadmaps.
• Collaborate with engineering, DevSecOps, data, integration, and cybersecurity teams to ensure architecture supports secure delivery, testing, traceability, and sustainment.
• Lead or support discovery sessions with mission and technical stakeholders to translate business needs into future-state solution designs and actionable implementation approaches.
• Review solution artifacts, user stories, technical designs, and implementation approaches to ensure alignment with architectural intent and modernization goals.
• Identify technical and program risks early, recommend mitigation strategies, and drive issues through resolution.
• Communicate architectural decisions, tradeoffs, and modernization strategy clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor junior Salesforce developers and solution engineers.

Benefits

• health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
• paid leave
• professional development
• tuition assistance
• work-life programs
• dependent care
• recognition awards program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior