Salesforce Technical Architect – Sales Cloud

Role: Salesforce Technical Architect – Sales Cloud

Location: Remote - East Coast

Duration: 12 months

Experience: 10+ years overall IT experience with strong Salesforce architecture expertise

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Architect with strong expertise in Sales Cloud to design scalable CRM solutions, lead technical architecture, and align Salesforce capabilities with business requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Solution Architecture: Design end-to-end Salesforce solutions primarily focused on Sales Cloud, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Sales Cloud Expertise: Architect solutions for lead management, opportunity management, accounts, contacts, forecasting, sales processes, pipeline management, and territory management.
• Technical Leadership: Provide architectural guidance to Salesforce developers, administrators, business analysts, and implementation teams.
• Customization and Development: Define solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flows, validation rules, and other Salesforce platform capabilities.
• Integration Architecture: Design integrations between Salesforce and enterprise applications using REST/SOAP APIs, middleware platforms, and event-driven architectures.
• Data Architecture: Define data models, data migration strategies, data quality standards, and data governance practices.
• Security and Compliance: Establish Salesforce security architecture, including profiles, permission sets, role hierarchies, sharing rules, and access controls.
• Business Collaboration: Work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, and functional consultants to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Platform Optimization: Identify opportunities to improve CRM adoption, automate sales processes, enhance reporting, and optimize platform performance.
• DevOps and Deployment: Define deployment strategies using Salesforce DX, CI/CD pipelines, version control, and release management best practices.
• Documentation: Develop architecture diagrams, technical specifications, integration designs, and architectural decision documents.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall IT experience, with substantial hands-on experience in the Salesforce ecosystem.
• Proven experience as a Salesforce Architect or Technical Architect delivering enterprise-scale Salesforce implementations.
• Strong expertise in Salesforce Sales Cloud, including lead-to-opportunity lifecycle, sales pipeline management, forecasting, and sales automation.
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce platform architecture, governor limits, data modeling, security, and performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Salesforce Flows, and declarative configuration.
• Experience designing integrations using REST APIs, SOAP APIs, Platform Events, and middleware solutions.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce data migration, data integration, and large data volume considerations.
• Experience with Salesforce DevOps, CI/CD tools, Git, Salesforce DX, and deployment management.
• Ability to engage with senior business stakeholders and provide architectural recommendations.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.