Salesforce Architect

Job Title: Salesforce Architect

Location: Sunnyvale, CA (Onsite)

Duration:12+ Months

Key responsibilities

• Architecture ownership: Define target state, solution and integration architecture aligned to business outcomes and enterprise standards.
• Solution design: Convert complex requirements into end to end Salesforce designs, including data, security, automation, integrations and non functional requirements.
• Own Salesforce CPQ solution architecture and design governance across product catalog, configuration, pricing, discounting, quote lifecycle, approvals, amendments, renewals and connected contracting, order and billing processes.
• Technical governance: Set design principles, review solution designs and code, manage technical debt and maintain architecture decision records.
• Stakeholder leadership: Facilitate design workshops and communicate trade offs to business, product, security, integration and engineering stakeholders.
• Delivery guidance: Provide actionable technical direction, unblock developers and ensure designs are implementable within Salesforce platform constraints.
• Integration and data: Define API, event, middleware, identity, data migration, master data and observability patterns.
• Security and compliance: Embed least privilege, auditability, privacy, data protection and secure integration principles.
• Release readiness: Assess architectural risk, environment strategy, deployment readiness, performance and operational support needs.
• Required experience and technical skills
• Proven architecture leadership across multiple enterprise Salesforce implementations or major transformation programs.
• Deep Salesforce platform knowledge spanning Apex/LWC, Flow, data model, sharing/security, APIs, limits and environment strategy.
• Required Salesforce CPQ architecture experience, including product and bundle modeling, product and price rules, discounting, quote calculation, approvals, amendments, renewals, contracting handoffs and downstream order or billing integration considerations.
• Ability to design resilient integrations, asynchronous processing, identity/access and high volume data solutions.
• Experience producing architecture diagrams, solution designs, interface specifications, decision records and technical roadmaps.
• Strong facilitation and executive communication skills, with the ability to explain technical trade offs in business language.
• Preferred experience
• Experience in medical device, life sciences, healthcare or another regulated industry.
• Exposure to Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Life Sciences Cloud and Salesforce data/AI capabilities where applicable.
• Salesforce Application Architect and/or System Architect credentials; Certified Technical Architect is highly advantageous, not mandatory unless required by the client.
• Knowledge of enterprise integration platforms, security architecture, DevOps and observability.

Expected deliverables

Deliverable        Purpose

Architecture blueprint   Target solution boundaries, components, integrations and deployment view.

Solution design Detailed data, automation, security, integration and non functional design.

Decision log        Documented architecture choices, assumptions, risks and trade offs.

Governance outputs      Design/code review findings, exception decisions and remediation guidance.

Roadmap             Sequenced technical enablers, dependencies, debt reduction and release considerations.