Salesforce Technical Architect (Software Engineer IV)

Description

We are looking for a Salesforce Technical Architect (Software Engineer IV) to lead the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of a large-scale Salesforce environment. This role combines hands-on engineering with architectural ownership, guiding decisions across Salesforce and Azure while supporting secure, scalable, and high-performing solutions. The position also plays a key role in advancing data-driven marketing capabilities, AI-enabled workflows, and engineering practices that improve quality, automation, and deployment speed.

Responsibilities:

Define the technical roadmap for the Salesforce ecosystem and determine the most effective approach for building capabilities within the platform or extending them through Azure-based services.

Design and oversee integrations connecting Salesforce with internal and external systems, using resilient near real-time and event-driven patterns to maintain reliable data flow.

Lead the rollout of Salesforce Data 360 and enhance supporting data pipelines that enable segmentation, analytics, and AI-powered business processes.

Establish architecture standards, review solution designs and code, and ensure engineering output meets expectations for security, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

Strengthen the software delivery lifecycle by introducing automated checks for code quality, testing, and security validation across development and release processes.

Advance CI/CD practices by improving Python-based deployment pipelines and enabling frequent, dependable releases with minimal manual effort.

Mentor a distributed team of engineers by providing technical direction, coaching on platform design patterns, and promoting consistent engineering excellence.

Build and guide development of complex Salesforce applications using Apex, Lightning Web Components, and declarative tools, while also supporting services and APIs built with Node.js and Python.

Define integration standards, API contracts, and automation frameworks that support dependable interoperability across enterprise platforms and cloud environments.

Requirements

Proven experience serving in a Salesforce architecture leadership role within a complex enterprise environment.
Deep knowledge of Salesforce platform capabilities, including Apex, Lightning Web Components, and declarative automation tools.
Strong background designing distributed integrations, APIs, and event-driven architectures across cloud and enterprise systems.
Hands-on experience with Azure services and development using Node.js and Python for off-platform solutions.
Expertise in secure software design, platform governance, and implementation of quality controls throughout the development lifecycle.
Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines, automated testing practices, and deployment automation in fast-paced engineering organizations.
Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor engineers across multiple experience levels in a distributed team structure.
Familiarity with DevOps practices and architecture standards in support of scalable, reliable platform delivery.

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