Salesforce Solutions Architect with Marketing Cloud

Perficient • Anaheim, CA

15h • $92,118 - $202,730 • Onsite

About The Position

Join Kelley Austin, a high‑growth Salesforce consultancy now part of Perficient. You’ll get the best of both worlds: the energy and impact of a boutique team with a booming practice, backed by the scale, clients, and career pathways of a global digital consultancy. We have an opportunity for a Salesforce Solution Architect with expertise in Data. This role can be located anywhere in the United States but our preference is for candidates living near a Perficient office. The is an onsite role in Anaheim, CA. Perficient is the global AI-first consultancy. Our team of strategists, designers, technologists, and engineers partners with the world’s most innovative enterprises and admired brands to deliver real business results through the transformative power of AI. As part of our AI-First strategy, we empower every employee to build AI fluency and actively engage with AI tools to drive innovation and efficiency. We break boundaries, obsess over outcomes, and shape the future for our clients. Join a company where bold ideas and brilliant minds converge to redefine what’s possible - while building a career filled with growth, balance, and purpose. Our Salesforce + MuleSoft team helps global brands create connected, data-driven experiences that drive enterprise-wide transformation. As a Salesforce Partner and trusted MuleSoft advisor, we deliver strategic guidance, industry accelerators, and AI-powered solutions across healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and more—unlocking the full potential of the Salesforce ecosystem. Responsibilities A Solutions Architect plays a highly hands-on role in shaping client success. This individual is deeply involved in writing user stories, overseeing testing efforts, and building strong relationships with both the client and the Product Owner to ensure alignment and delivery excellence. The ideal candidate is expected to have expert-level knowledge of Salesforce, with proficiency in two or more Clouds, including hands-on experience with Data tools. While a programming background is not required, the Solutions Architect must demonstrate strong capabilities in client presales and presentations, team leadership, and strategic thought leadership. This role demands a blend of technical acumen, business insight, and interpersonal skills to drive impactful solutions in the financial services domain. You will collaborate with some of the best talent in the industry to create and implement innovative high-quality solutions, participate in Sales and various pursuits focused on our clients' business needs. You will also contribute to a variety of roles in thought leadership, mentorship, systems analysis, architecture, design, configuration, testing, debugging, and documentation. You will challenge your leading-edge solutions, consultative and business skills through the diversity of work in multiple industry domains. This role is considered part of the Business Unit Senior Leadership team and may mentor delivery team members. Own and aggressively drive forward specific areas of technology architecture. Provide architectural solutions/designs to project execution teams for implementation. Provide architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for the Salesforce domain. Write Stories and operate as a BA when necessary. Lead projects within architecture. Work with Product Owner/Business Analysts to understand functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams to architect, design, develop, test, and release features. Project and solution estimation and team structure definition. Develop Proof-of-Concept projects to validate new architectures and solutions. Support multiple Agile Scrum teams with planning, scoping and creation of technical solutions for the new product capabilities, through to continuous delivery to production. Liaise with offshore team and clients for resolving technical dependencies, issues, and risks. Mentor and provide architectural guidance to multiple teams building innovative applications. Drive common vision, practices and capabilities across teams. Engage with business stakeholders to understand required capabilities, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions. Engage with Technical Architects and technical staff to determine the most appropriate technical strategy and designs to meet business needs. Demonstrate broad solutions technical leadership, impacting significant technical direction, exerting influence outside of the immediate team and driving change.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience with Salesforce.
• At least two project implementations that exploit the full capabilities (discover, design, implement and optimize) of the Salesforce platforms.
• Experience implementing Salesforce solutions in the last two years.
• Expectation to deepen mastery across Data Cloud, Agentforce, and the broader Salesforce ecosystem, with an inherently inquisitive mindset that continuously explores how Data Cloud interacts with core Salesforce products and external systems to design cohesive, scalable architectures
• Solid understanding of delivery methodology and ability to lead teams in implementation.
• Experience in project and solution estimation and team structure definition.
• Fluent and current on architecture trends with an eye on market/technical conditions and future direction.
• Experience in defining new architectures and the ability to drive an independent project from an architectural standpoint.
• Demonstrated success in managing complex and/or large consulting projects.
• Proficient in authoring, editing and presenting technical documents.
• Ability to elicit requirements and communicate clearly with non-technical individuals, development teams, and other ancillary project members.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Desire to mentor younger team members and develop their skills.
• Experience working on multiple concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support data-informed task execution.
• Must be willing to work onsite in Anaheim, CA

Nice To Haves

• Experience integrating Data Cloud with Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, or Experience Cloud is strongly preferred, with additional exposure to Marketing Cloud APIs, Agentforce models, or real-time personalization a plus
• Familiarity with AI-enhanced platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own and aggressively drive forward specific areas of technology architecture.
• Provide architectural solutions/designs to project execution teams for implementation.
• Provide architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for the Salesforce domain.
• Write Stories and operate as a BA when necessary.
• Lead projects within architecture.
• Work with Product Owner/Business Analysts to understand functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams to architect, design, develop, test, and release features.
• Project and solution estimation and team structure definition.
• Develop Proof-of-Concept projects to validate new architectures and solutions.
• Support multiple Agile Scrum teams with planning, scoping and creation of technical solutions for the new product capabilities, through to continuous delivery to production.
• Liaise with offshore team and clients for resolving technical dependencies, issues, and risks.
• Mentor and provide architectural guidance to multiple teams building innovative applications.
• Drive common vision, practices and capabilities across teams.
• Engage with business stakeholders to understand required capabilities, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions.
• Engage with Technical Architects and technical staff to determine the most appropriate technical strategy and designs to meet business needs.
• Demonstrate broad solutions technical leadership, impacting significant technical direction, exerting influence outside of the immediate team and driving change.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees