Salesforce Solution Architect
Location: Remote; candidates located in the Northeast are preferred
Duration: 12+ Months
Required skills:
experience, etc.: 7+ years of experience as a Salesforce Solution Architect, Salesforce Sales Cloud and Salesforce Service Cloud certifications, experience in multi-cloud architecture across multiple Salesforce clouds
Nice to have: Global implementation experience
This position is not eligible for sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis.
Job Description:
We are looking for a Salesforce Solution Architect who will be responsible for defining, governing, and validating end-to-end Salesforce architecture across Sales, Service, CLM, and integrated business processes. Acting as the client s architectural authority, this role partners closely with system integrators, product owners, technical leads, data teams, and business stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure, and future-proof design aligns with the client s roadmap and Salesforce best practices. This position will be a contract and remote. Candidates located in Eastern and Central time zones are preferred due to the client's work environment and alignment with operational needs.
What You ll Do
- Design and validate a scalable, efficient, and sustainable Salesforce architecture for multi-cloud global implementations
- Evaluate proposed solutions for maintainability, extensibility, and long-term viability
- Align all architectural decisions with the Salesforce product roadmap, enterprise architecture principles, and internal standards
- Define configuration standards, design patterns, and guardrails for functional and technical teams
- Review and approve functional designs across workstreams (Sales, Service, CLM, Integration, Data, RFP, etc.)
- Translate business strategies and requirements into holistic Salesforce solutions that balance user experience, performance, and compliance
- Ensure alignment between technical teams, functional SMEs, and business owners to deliver solutions on schedule
- Partner with the Integration Lead to design robust integration architecture with SAP, Agiloft, Workday, and other enterprise platforms
- Validate data flows, API usage, middleware strategy, and integration patterns
- Support data strategy activities, including data migration, mapping, and cleansing (in collaboration with Data Lead and SI)
- Provide architectural oversight throughout discovery, design, build, testing, and cutover phases
- Review solution designs to ensure adherence to best practices, security frameworks, and change control processes
- Support DevOps alignment, including environment strategy, release sequencing, and deployment governance
- Participate in workshops, design reviews, RFP evaluations, and architecture decision records
- Communicate architectural risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to program leadership and executive stakeholders
What You'll Need
Required:
- Minimum of 7 years of experience as a Salesforce Solution Architect
- Strong expertise in Salesforce solutions architecting and multi-cloud architecture across multiple Salesforce clouds, including Sales, Service, and CLM
- Expertise in designing scalable, secure, and sustainable Salesforce architectures that adhere to Salesforce best practices and enterprise standards
- Hands-on experience with integration strategies involving enterprise platforms such as SAP, Agiloft, and Workday, including API usage, middleware strategies, and integration patterns
- Experience with data migration, mapping, and cleansing processes in collaboration with data teams
- Demonstrated ability to provide architectural oversight and lead cross-functional teams, including system integrators, technical leads, and business stakeholders
- Strong knowledge of architectural governance, DevOps alignment (environment strategy, release sequencing, and deployment governance), and adherence to security frameworks
- Salesforce Cloud certifications are required, preferably multiple across the Salesforce Platform; strong preference for candidates holding Sales and Service Cloud certifications, with Marketing or Development certifications considered advantageous but not essential
Preferred:
- Experience working in industries requiring complex Salesforce integrations and compliance (e.g., manufacturing, technology, or enterprise services)
- Familiarity with East Coast working hours to ensure effective communication and alignment with program schedules
- Experience engaging with executive stakeholders, presenting architectural risks and trade-offs, and participating in RFP evaluations
Physical Demands
- Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA and other federal, state, and local standards
- Sedentary work that involves sitting or remaining stationary most of the time with occasional need to move around the office to attend meetings, etc.
- Ability to conduct repetitive tasks on a computer, utilizing a mouse, keyboard, and monitor
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