Job#: 3017282 Job Description: Salesforce Architect
Position Summary
The Salesforce Technical Architect serves as the technical authority for the Salesforce platform, responsible for designing scalable solutions that align with business objectives while maintaining system integrity and performance. This role provides technical leadership and strategic direction for Salesforce initiatives ensuring seamless integration across Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Data Cloud platforms.
As a Technical Architect, you are both a visionary and a meticulous problem solver. Your expertise spans a wide range of technical and enterprise skills, allowing you to design robust systems that can handle high volumes and remain reliable during critical moments. You excel in creating solutions that are built to last and can seamlessly scale the growth of our organization. Your extensive experience in integrating systems via APIs, combined with a strong development background, ensures that the solutions you architect are both innovative and practical.
Key Responsibilities
The Technical Architect will be responsible for:
- Architect and lead the implementation of Salesforce solutions, including Sales Cloud, and Marketing Cloud, with a focus on scalability, performance, and compliance.
- Collaborate with client stakeholders to design and oversee the implementation of enterprise-scale Salesforce solutions.
- Establishing technical standards, best practices, and architectural guidelines.
- Translate complex business requirements into elegant, maintainable Apex code, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flow automation, and integrations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams-Sales, Service, Operations, and Product-to define technical roadmaps and deliver intelligent customer experiences.
- Define and enforce development standards, DevOps practices, and reusable components.
- Managing technical debt and platform optimization initiatives.
- Ability to understand a project and deep dive to debug issues.
- Participate in other activities such as discovery and technical deep-dive sessions for Proof-Of-Concept (POC) development.
- Mentoring development teams and providing technical leadership.
- Evaluating new Salesforce features and technologies for potential adoption.
- Ensure solutions meet security, scalability, and performance requirements.
- Provide application support by analyzing defects, replicating/fixing defects, and providing root cause analysis for defects. Troubleshoot and resolve functional and performance-related issues.
- Support post deployment activities including knowledge transfer, process documentation, and application bug fixes.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Experience with multiple Salesforce clouds. (Sales, Marketing Cloud)
- 10+ years of Salesforce development experience, including Apex, LWC, SOQL, and Visualforce.
- Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) or multiple domain architect certifications.
- Deep understanding of Salesforce platform capabilities and limitations.
- Extensive experience with enterprise integration patterns and architecture.
- Familiarity with platform authentication patterns (SAML, SSO, OAuth).
- Knowledge of data integration tools and experience integrating Salesforce with different business systems. (KAM, marketing automation, reporting, etc.)
- Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies.
- Strong knowledge of security principles and compliance requirements.
- Proven experience leading complex technical implementations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Agentforce, Salesforce AI capabilities, and tools like MuleSoft and Informatica.
- Familiarity with NetZero Cloud is a plus.
- Experience with continuous integration/deployment tools. (Gearset)
- Experience with Informatica, ZoomInfo, Lucid, Jira and Confluence.
- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks.
- Background in agile development methodologies.
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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