Salesforce Architect Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 8+ years of Salesforce experience, including a clear progression from Salesforce Developer or Senior Developer into Technical Lead, Development Manager, Technical Architect, or equivalent senior consulting role.
• 3+ years leading technical teams, delivery workstreams, or major Salesforce implementation programs.
• Strong hands-on development experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components, Visualforce where applicable, SOQL/SOSL, asynchronous Apex, REST/SOAP APIs, and Salesforce DX.
• Deep knowledge of Salesforce security, sharing, role hierarchy, permission sets, profiles, identity/access considerations, and governance.
• Demonstrated experience designing enterprise integrations, data migration approaches, API strategies, and error-handling/reconciliation processes.
• Experience with CI/CD, version control, automated testing, code quality practices, release management, and multi-environment deployment strategies.
• Proven ability to design for scale, performance, system limits, large data volumes, maintainability, and operational support.
• Consulting experience with direct client interaction, stakeholder management, technical workshops, requirements clarification, and executive-level communication.
• Experience leading distributed or cross-functional teams while balancing hands-on technical contribution with architecture and delivery leadership.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical choices and trade-offs in business terms.

Nice To Haves

• Salesforce certifications such as Platform Developer I/II, Application Architect, System Architect, Integration Architect, Data Architect, Sharing & Visibility Architect, or Salesforce Certified Technical Architect.
• Experience with Salesforce clouds such as Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Field Service, Marketing Cloud, CPQ/Revenue Cloud, or Financial Services Cloud.
• Experience with MuleSoft or comparable middleware/iPaaS platforms.
• Background in Agile delivery, technical project estimation, enterprise architecture, and managed services/support environments.
• Experience with modern web technologies such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React, or external cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Prior experience in a consulting firm, Salesforce partner, systems integrator, or client-facing delivery organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, solution design, estimation, and delivery for complex Salesforce engagements.
• Partner directly with client business and technology stakeholders to understand goals, constraints, processes, data, and enterprise architecture.
• Translate functional requirements into scalable Salesforce technical designs, including architecture diagrams, data models, integration specifications, security models, and implementation roadmaps.
• Serve as the technical authority for Salesforce platform design, custom development, integrations, data migration, release strategy, performance, and security.
• Lead, mentor, and guide Salesforce developers, administrators, QA resources, and technical leads; conduct design and code reviews and establish engineering standards.
• Remain hands-on as needed with Apex, Lightning Web Components, SOQL/SOSL, Flows, APIs, integrations, debugging, and complex production issue resolution.
• Design and govern integrations between Salesforce and enterprise platforms using APIs, middleware, event-driven patterns, and appropriate synchronous/asynchronous processing.
• Define architecture and development standards for scalability, maintainability, testability, security, CI/CD, source control, and environment management.
• Evaluate Salesforce capabilities and recommend the appropriate mix of configuration, declarative automation, custom development, AppExchange solutions, and external services.
• Lead technical workstreams across full project lifecycles: discovery, design, build, test, deployment, hypercare, and ongoing optimization.
• Communicate technical risks, trade-offs, dependencies, estimates, and recommendations clearly to both technical and nontechnical client audiences.
• Support pre-sales activities as needed, including solutioning, technical demos, estimation, statements of work, and client presentations.
• Technical Architects commonly lead custom Apex/LWC development, API and integration design, large-data-volume considerations, environment strategy, and DevOps processes.