Salesforce Technical Architect

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture

Design scalable Salesforce architectures that support current business requirements and future growth.

Translate functional and business requirements into detailed technical designs and implementation strategies.

Define appropriate use of Salesforce configuration, custom development, integrations, automation, and platform capabilities.

Evaluate solution alternatives and make architecture recommendations based on scalability, security, maintainability, performance, and cost.

Establish technical standards, design patterns, and development best practices across Salesforce implementations.

Conduct architecture and technical design reviews.

Salesforce Platform Leadership

Provide technical leadership across Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and other Salesforce products as applicable.

Design solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flow, platform events, asynchronous processing, and Salesforce APIs.

Determine when to use declarative functionality versus custom development.

Guide teams on Salesforce governor limits, platform constraints, performance considerations, and scalability.

Review Apex, LWC, SOQL, Flow, and configuration designs for quality and adherence to platform best practices.

Integration Architecture

Design and oversee integrations between Salesforce and enterprise applications, APIs, data platforms, middleware, and third-party services.

Define appropriate integration patterns including synchronous APIs, asynchronous messaging, event-driven architectures, batch integrations, and file-based processing.

Work with REST, SOAP, Bulk APIs, Platform Events, Change Data Capture, and other Salesforce integration technologies.

Collaborate with middleware and integration platforms such as MuleSoft, Boomi, Azure Integration Services, AWS services, or similar technologies.

Establish standards for error handling, retries, monitoring, logging, and integration security.

Data Architecture

Develop Salesforce data models that support business processes while maintaining platform performance and data quality.

Design strategies for data migration, synchronization, archival, retention, and master data management.

Lead or support large-scale Salesforce data migration initiatives.

Identify and address data quality, duplication, ownership, and governance concerns.

Optimize data access patterns, SOQL queries, indexes, and large-data-volume

implementations.

Security and Governance

Design Salesforce security models including roles, profiles, permission sets, sharing rules, restriction rules, and organization-wide defaults.

Ensure solutions align with enterprise security, compliance, privacy, and data governance requirements.

Design authentication and authorization solutions using technologies such as SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, SSO, and MFA.

Review solutions for appropriate handling of sensitive and regulated information.

Support Salesforce platform governance, release management, and technical risk management.

DevOps and Application Lifecycle Management

Define and improve Salesforce development, testing, deployment, and release-management processes.

Support CI/CD strategies using tools such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, Gearset, Copado, Salesforce CLI, or equivalent technologies.

Establish branching, code review, automated testing, and deployment standards.

Promote appropriate use of Salesforce environments, sandboxes, scratch orgs, and source-driven development.

Help establish monitoring and operational support practices for production Salesforce environments.

Technical Leadership

Provide technical guidance and mentoring to Salesforce developers, administrators, and other architects.

Review technical designs and code to ensure quality, maintainability, security, and performance.

Lead troubleshooting efforts for complex platform, integration, and production issues.

Work closely with project managers and delivery leadership to identify technical risks, dependencies, and implementation constraints.

Clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Participate in client workshops, discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and executive-level discussions.

Required Qualifications

8+ years of overall software development, enterprise application, or technology consulting experience.

5+ years of hands-on Salesforce implementation and development experience.

2+ years operating in a Salesforce Technical Architect, Lead Architect, or similar senior technical leadership role.

Strong knowledge of Salesforce platform architecture and capabilities.

Strong hands-on experience with:

o Apex

o Lightning Web Components

o Salesforce Flow

o SOQL and SOSL

o Salesforce APIs

o Platform Events and asynchronous processing

o Salesforce security and sharing architecture

Experience designing enterprise integrations between Salesforce and external systems.

Strong understanding of API, messaging, event-driven, and batch integration patterns.

Experience working with large data volumes and complex Salesforce data models.

Strong understanding of object-oriented development, software architecture, design patterns, and API design.

Experience with Git-based source control and Salesforce CI/CD processes.

Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, SSO, OAuth, and enterprise security concepts.

Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex technical and performance issues.

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to communicate architecture decisions and technical tradeoffs to senior stakeholders.