Job Title: Salesforce Technical Architect
Location: Morristown, NJ (Onsite)
Job Summary
Client is seeking a highly experienced Salesforce Technical Architect to lead the architecture, design, and delivery of strategic customer-facing solutions built on Salesforce Experience Cloud. This role will drive the technical vision and execution of a large-scale customer payments initiative integrating Salesforce with ERP systems, payment gateways, middleware platforms, and enterprise services.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on architect who can independently engage business and technical stakeholders, facilitate workshops, define architecture, build proof-of-concepts, and provide technical leadership across architects, senior developers, and integration teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end architecture for Salesforce Experience Cloud and enterprise integrations.
- Define scalable, secure, high-performing solutions aligned with enterprise standards.
- Lead architecture reviews, technical design sessions, and implementation planning.
- Establish integration, security, and data architecture patterns.
- Provide technical leadership to architects, technical leads, developers, and vendor teams.
- Drive design decisions and resolve complex technical challenges.
- Design and implement customer-facing payment capabilities within Salesforce Experience Cloud.
- Architect integrations with payment gateways, processors, and ERP platforms.
- Define solutions supporting invoice payments, payment status tracking, transaction history, ACH and credit card processing, and customer self-service capabilities.
- Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with PCI-compliance requirements.
- Evaluate and recommend payment architecture approaches, including API-based and hosted payment experiences.
- Design and oversee integrations between Salesforce and:
- NetSuite
- PeopleSoft
- AWS Services
- Middleware/Data Hub platforms
- Third-party payment providers
- Enterprise APIs
- Establish API governance, authentication, security, and monitoring standards.
- Lead integration design for real-time and batch synchronization requirements.
- Lead architecture workshops and requirement discovery sessions.
- Partner directly with business, finance, billing, customer service, and IT leadership teams.
- Translate business objectives into technical solutions.
- Independently manage discussions with executive and senior stakeholders.
- Present architecture options, trade-offs, and recommendations.
- Build and lead technical proof-of-concepts to validate architecture decisions.
- Evaluate third-party technologies and platform capabilities.
- Drive solution innovation and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to simplify architecture and reduce implementation risk.
Required Skills
- Salesforce Experience Cloud
- Apex
- Lightning Web Components (LWC)
- Integration Architecture
- Security & Identity
- Salesforce Platform Design
- Payment gateway and payment processor integrations
- Online payment solutions for customer-facing applications
- Payment processing workflows and transaction lifecycle management
- PCI-compliant architecture patterns
- NetSuite integration
- PeopleSoft integration
- REST APIs
- Middleware platforms
- Event-driven architecture
- AWS services and integration patterns
- Enterprise API design and governance
Preferred Skills
- SAP or Oracle ERP integration experience
- Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA)
- Salesforce Application Architect certification
- Salesforce System Architect certification
- AWS Solution Architect certification
- Customer portals and self-service platforms
- Enterprise digital transformation initiatives
- Experience leading global or hybrid onshore/offshore delivery teams
Qualifications
- 10+ years of Salesforce experience.
- 5+ years in Salesforce Technical Architect or Solution Architect roles.
- Proven experience implementing payment gateway or payment processor integrations.
- Strong understanding of payment processing workflows and transaction lifecycle management.
- Hands-on integration experience with NetSuite and PeopleSoft.
- Strong workshop facilitation and stakeholder management experience.
- Ability to lead distributed technical teams and vendors.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to operate independently with minimal oversight.
- Ability to define and own the technical architecture for customer payment platforms.
- Experience leading stakeholder workshops and architecture discovery efforts.
- Experience building and validating solution proof-of-concepts.
- Ability to guide technical leads and senior developers throughout delivery.
- Experience delivering Salesforce Experience Cloud, payment, and ERP integration solutions.
- Ability to serve as a trusted technical advisor for customer-facing digital transformation initiatives.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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