Senior Salesforce Architect

Avetta, LLC

3d•$170,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Salesforce Architect is a senior technical leader within Avetta’s Business Systems organization, responsible for defining scalable, sustainable, and secure solution architectures across the Salesforce platform and its surrounding business application ecosystem. The role leads architectural design for complex initiatives spanning Salesforce and integrated systems, ensuring alignment with business priorities, data governance standards, platform best practices, and long-term maintainability. It translates complex business requirements into technical designs covering application behavior, data flows, integrations, automation, security, and operational support. The architect provides leadership across Salesforce and connected enterprise applications, evaluates trade-offs across the technology landscape, and advises business and technology stakeholders. The role also promotes architectural consistency and reduces complexity through reusable patterns, standards, and scalable design practices. Employees within 30 miles of an Avetta office are required to work a hybrid schedule of three days in the office and two days from home; candidates outside that range may be considered for remote work.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Advanced experience with Salesforce platform architecture across declarative, programmatic, integration, and security domains.
At least 8 years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise applications, systems design, or SaaS platform delivery.
At least 5 years of hands-on experience designing solutions on the Salesforce platform.
Demonstrated experience architecting solutions spanning Salesforce and multiple integrated enterprise systems.
Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture, platform limits, security model, data model design, automation tooling, and custom development patterns.
Experience with enterprise integrations, including REST and event-driven patterns, middleware or orchestration concepts, and cross-system data synchronization.
Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear, scalable, and supportable technical designs.
Experience leading design reviews, architecture governance discussions, and cross-functional solution workshops.
Strong understanding of data governance, system-of-record design, observability, and operational support considerations.
Experience working in Agile delivery environments with product, engineering, QA, DevOps, and business teams.
Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to explain technical trade-offs in business terms.

Nice To Haves

Salesforce certifications such as Application Architect, System Architect, Platform Developer, or equivalent credentials.
Training or experience in enterprise integration architecture, API design, and distributed system thinking.
Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, source control, environment strategy, and release governance in Salesforce-centric delivery models.
Knowledge of data modeling, master data concepts, and enterprise application architecture practices.
Experience with adjacent business platforms such as marketing automation, ERP, billing, support, data, or customer-facing systems.
Exposure to architecture documentation methods such as decision records, reference architectures, sequence diagrams, and solution design artifacts.
Ongoing professional development in Salesforce, enterprise architecture, integration patterns, AI-assisted delivery, or related disciplines.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and solution design for complex initiatives involving Salesforce and connected enterprise applications.
Translate business requirements into end-to-end technical designs covering system interactions, data models, automation, APIs, event flows, security, and operational considerations.
Define scalable architecture patterns that balance business agility with platform stability, supportability, and maintainability.
Conduct architecture reviews for high-impact enhancements, integrations, and strategic programs.
Establish and maintain architecture standards, reference patterns, and design guardrails across Business Systems workstreams.
Guide appropriate use of declarative capabilities, custom development, and integration patterns based on complexity, risk, and long-term ownership.
Provide architectural leadership across the Salesforce ecosystem, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, platform automation, DevOps, and related business systems.
Evaluate impacts across upstream and downstream systems, including marketing, finance, support, data, and custom integration services.
Partner with Product Owners, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to align architecture decisions with strategic priorities, roadmap direction, and delivery constraints.
Identify opportunities to simplify the application landscape, reduce technical debt, standardize core business logic, and improve data integrity.
Guide the evolution of business capabilities such as lead routing, territory assignment, customer data management, quoting, and workflow orchestration.
Define integration architectures and system boundaries for reliable, observable, and resilient data exchange between Salesforce and external platforms.
Drive best practices for API design, event-driven processing, retry handling, monitoring, logging, and error management.
Partner with data, DevOps, and application teams to improve traceability, release readiness, environment alignment, and operational supportability.
Ensure architecture decisions support data governance, security, compliance, and auditability requirements.
Promote sound patterns for master data ownership, system-of-record clarity, and cross-system process consistency.
Participate in discovery, intake, and refinement activities to shape viable, scalable solution options before implementation.
Work with developers, administrators, QA, DevOps, analysts, and program leaders to ensure designs are actionable and delivery teams are aligned.
Mentor team members on architecture thinking, design quality, trade-off analysis, and platform best practices.
Support creation of architectural decision records, technical documentation, reusable assets, and solution playbooks.
Present technical designs and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including leadership stakeholders.
Establish and evolve architectural governance practices, review forums, and design approval processes.
Drive improvements that reduce rework, improve change safety, strengthen release confidence, and increase the scalability of the Business Systems organization.
Maintain awareness of Salesforce roadmap changes, integration tooling, AI-enabled platform capabilities, and relevant enterprise application trends.