Senior Solutions Architect (Salesforce)

Western Governors University • Salt Lake City, UT

10d • $161,000 - $249,500 • Onsite

About The Position

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career. Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is: Grade: Technical 411 Pay Range: $161,000.00 - $249,500.00 Job Description The Senior Solutions Architect designs, implements, maintains, and solves extremely complex enterprise-wide technical projects and solutions with an expertise in a particular technology. This role uses discretion to fully scope current systems and applies technical proficiency, creativity, and collaboration to recommend enhancements and solutions to ensure flexibility, resilience, scalability, and high performance of complex technical problems. The Senior Solutions Architect is recognized as a master within the technical discipline and will possess extensive experience in building robust systems and strong collaboration, design, and negotiation skills to align technology solutions with business objectives. This role will identify pain points and use independent judgement to design, modify, and recommend technical solutions to solve complex company problems. The Senior Solutions Architect will be deeply involved in daily cross-functional work, people training, collaboration, and team influencing, and regularly interacts with both stakeholders, subject matter experts, and executive leadership. Join a team that is solving complex, enterprise-scale challenges and shaping the future of Salesforce architecture. As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will design and deliver high-impact solutions that drive scalability, performance, and long-term flexibility across critical systems. You will partner closely with business and technology leaders to translate strategy into resilient, enterprise-grade solutions. Impact In this role, you will serve as a recognized technical leader, influencing architecture decisions and guiding teams through complex Salesforce implementations. You will identify opportunities for optimization, define future-state architecture, and ensure the delivery of secure, high-performing, and scalable systems that align with organizational goals.

Requirements

• 10 years of relevant experience.
• 4 years as Solutions Architect or 8 years in a technical leadership role (e.g., technical lead, principal engineer).
• Deep expertise in Salesforce architecture, including platform design, integrations, and scalability considerations.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, and best practices.
• Proven experience building high-resiliency systems with a focus on performance, reliability, and fault tolerance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence technical direction at scale.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including working with executive leadership.
• Proficiency with architecture visualization and documentation tools (e.g., Visio, Lucidchart).
• Advanced problem-solving skills with the ability to independently identify and resolve complex challenges.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of UML (Unified Modeling Language).
• Certifications in Salesforce, cloud technologies, or enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
• Equivalent relevant experience performing the essential functions of this role may substitute for degree requirements.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, maintains, and solves extremely complex enterprise-wide technical projects and solutions with an expertise in a particular technology.
• Uses discretion to fully scope current systems and applies technical proficiency, creativity, and collaboration to recommend enhancements and solutions to ensure flexibility, resilience, scalability, and high performance of complex technical problems.
• Identifies pain points and uses independent judgement to design, modify, and recommend technical solutions to solve complex company problems.
• Is deeply involved in daily cross-functional work, people training, collaboration, and team influencing, and regularly interacts with both stakeholders, subject matter experts, and executive leadership.
• Designs and delivers high-impact solutions that drive scalability, performance, and long-term flexibility across critical systems.
• Partners closely with business and technology leaders to translate strategy into resilient, enterprise-grade solutions.
• Serves as a recognized technical leader, influencing architecture decisions and guiding teams through complex Salesforce implementations.
• Identifies opportunities for optimization, defines future-state architecture, and ensures the delivery of secure, high-performing, and scalable systems that align with organizational goals.
• Designs and implements scalable Salesforce architecture solutions that meet complex enterprise requirements.
• Translates business needs into flexible, resilient technical designs across Salesforce and integrated systems.
• Defines current, iterative, and future-state architecture strategies for large-scale initiatives.
• Provides expert-level technical guidance to cross-functional teams and leadership.
• Leads solution evaluations, including tools, platforms, and vendors, ensuring best-fit decisions.
• Mentors and develops engineers and technical teams, elevating overall Salesforce capabilities.
• Drives alignment across stakeholders by communicating complex technical concepts in a clear, actionable way.

Benefits

• bonuses
• medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
• health savings account and flexible spending account
• basic and voluntary life insurance
• disability coverage
• accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
• legal and identity theft coverage
• retirement savings plan
• wellbeing program
• discounted WGU tuition
• flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual
• flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
• 11 paid holidays
• other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed