Salesforce Architect (3x Per Week In Frisco, TX)
About the role
We are seeking a Principal Salesforce Architect who designs and implements Salesforce-based technology solutions that support Direct Store Delivery (DSD), retail execution, and consumer goods business processes. This individual analyzes business and stakeholder requirements, develops Salesforce-aligned architecture frameworks, and creates detailed solution designs across the Salesforce platform. The Principal Salesforce Architect collaborates with business and technology teams to successfully integrate Salesforce systems and components, overseeing the deployment, maintenance, and administration of complex Salesforce-driven enterprise solutions.
The Salesforce Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and scaling Salesforce solutions across an organization. They translate business requirements into enterprise-grade technical solutions while ensuring the platform remains secure, scalable, maintainable, and aligned with long-term business objectives. Salesforce Architects partner with business leaders, development teams, administrators, and external vendors to define platform strategy, integration patterns, data architecture, security models, and implementation standards. They provide technical leadership throughout the entire software development lifecycle, including solution design, development oversight, testing strategy, deployment planning, and production support.
This role does NOT provide sponsorship. No C2C.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to defining Salesforce architecture models, solution patterns, and implementation guidelines aligned with enterprise architecture standards and Salesforce best practices.
- Analyze and translate DSD, retail execution, and consumer goods business requirements into conceptual Salesforce architectures and high-level system designs.
- Develop conceptual models of how field sales representatives, merchandisers, route drivers, and retail users interact with Salesforce solutions.
- Review existing Salesforce and adjacent systems to determine improvement or modernization opportunities.
- Collaborate with teams to create Salesforce solutions and integration diagrams.
- Identify organizational impact on people, processes, technology, and financials.
- Evaluate Salesforce products and third-party ISV solutions and their integration into the architecture.
- Shepherd Salesforce solution design and implementation while resolving architectural issues with strong problem-solving skills.
- Architect and extend Salesforce Consumer Goods Retail Execution (CGRE) applications, including visit planning, in-store execution, surveys, tasks, and mobile offline experiences.
- Design and implement Salesforce Agentforce and AI-powered experiences to support intelligent automation, guided selling, and field productivity use cases across DSD and retail execution workflows.
- Ensure resiliency, availability, scalability, performance, and maintainability of Salesforce solutions.
- Research emerging Salesforce features and industry trends.
Requirements
- Master's or Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, System Analysis, etc.) or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- 10–12+ years of experience in IT and business/industry including strategic and operations planning.
- 10+ years of experience in at least three disciplines such as business, information, solution, or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management, or operations.
- Experience working in multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
- 3–5 years of IT experience including Salesforce architecture, design, and delivery.
- Knowledge of SDLC methodologies with experience delivering Salesforce solutions in Agile and DevOps environments.
- Proven ability to translate strategic vision into executable Salesforce roadmaps.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and communicate effectively with business stakeholders.
- Core skills: sfdc, enterprise salesforce architecture, consumer goods cloud, retail execution.
Preferred qualifications
- Strong knowledge of the Salesforce ecosystem supporting Consumer Goods, DSD, and retail execution.
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce Agentforce, Einstein AI, and intelligent automation features in enterprise Salesforce implementations.
- Experience designing and delivering solutions using Salesforce low-code/no-code tools, balancing speed of delivery with architectural rigor.
- Experience integrating Salesforce with ERP, DSD, route accounting, and analytics platforms or similar ecosystems.
Pay
The pay range for this position is $90.00 – $120.00/hr. Individual compensation offered within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.
Benefits
- Medical, dental & vision
- Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital coverage
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
- Short and long-term disability
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- Transportation benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)