Lead Technical Architect – Salesforce Platform

Accountabilities

• Provide architecture leadership, technical guidance, and governance across a complex Salesforce environment.
• Balance strategic planning with hands-on expertise to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with business objectives.
• Define and maintain the Salesforce technical roadmap, architecture vision, and platform evolution strategy.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across Salesforce solutions, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Marketing capabilities, integrations, automation, reporting, and platform enhancements.
• Translate business requirements into scalable Salesforce architectures across configuration, Flow, Apex, Lightning Web Components, data models, security, and integrations.
• Establish and govern Salesforce architecture standards, design patterns, documentation practices, naming conventions, and development guidelines.
• Review technical designs, evaluate solution approaches, and ensure implementations are maintainable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Guide Salesforce administrators, developers, consultants, vendors, and distributed delivery teams through technical decisions and best practices.
• Design and support integrations between Salesforce and enterprise systems using APIs, middleware, event-driven architectures, and integration platforms.
• Strengthen DevOps and release management practices through improved deployment processes, environment management, and change governance.
• Identify technical debt, platform risks, and modernization opportunities while helping prioritize improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, delivery leaders, and QA teams to support predictable and high-quality solution delivery.
• Mentor technical teams and promote continuous improvement across Salesforce development and architecture practices.

Requirements

• Extensive Salesforce architecture experience, strong technical depth, and the ability to communicate complex solutions to both technical and business audiences.
• Significant experience as a Salesforce Technical Architect, Lead Salesforce Architect, or similar senior Salesforce architecture role within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in Salesforce platform architecture, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and related capabilities.
• Proven experience designing Salesforce solutions involving configuration, automation, Apex, Lightning Web Components, data architecture, security, reporting, and integrations.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce security models, including sharing rules, profiles, permission sets, roles, data quality, and platform performance considerations.
• Experience defining Salesforce governance frameworks, technical standards, and architecture best practices.
• Experience guiding administrators, developers, consultants, and external delivery partners.
• Knowledge of Salesforce DevOps practices, release management, deployment tools, and SDLC governance.
• Experience integrating Salesforce with enterprise applications through APIs, middleware, or event-driven integration patterns.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs in business terms.
• Able to identify risks, manage technical debt, and support platform modernization efforts.
• Salesforce certifications such as Application Architect, System Architect, Technical Architect, Platform Developer, or Salesforce Consultant certifications are a plus.
• Experience with tools and technologies such as Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, Data Cloud, Tableau, Agentforce, MuleSoft, Copado, Gearset, Flosum, Azure DevOps, or Jira is beneficial.
• Experience in regulated industries such as insurance, financial services, or enterprise environments is preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary range of $124,700-$218,200 USD, depending on experience, skills, certifications, education, and location.
• Potential performance-based incentives.
• Fully remote work flexibility.
• Comprehensive health and welfare benefits.
• Retirement savings programs, including 401(k) options.
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities.
• Generous paid time off, including personal and volunteering time.
• Employee assistance programs and wellbeing resources.
• Stock purchase opportunities.
• Opportunities to contribute to impactful enterprise technology initiatives.