Salesforce Solution Architect

The Salesforce Solution Architect serves as a technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing Salesforce solutions supporting Biomedical Services. The role involves strategic architectural leadership, hands-on technical guidance, and collaboration with business and technology teams to ensure scalable, secure, and efficient Salesforce solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and optimization of Salesforce solutions across Biomedical services products
• Establish reusable design patterns, coding standards, architectural guardrails, and conduct technical quality reviews
• Partner with solution, integration, and cross-functional teams to develop scalable end-to-end solutions and ensure seamless integration
• Establish and control technical definitions, rules, principles, and standards
• Assess, review, and make decisions on all solution architecture designs
• Deliver presentations, architectural blueprint documents, environment management plans, and development policies
• Participate in requirements-gathering workshops to influence strategic project direction and lead business through solution design
• Partner with Product Managers, Business Stakeholders, and analysts to translate requirements into Salesforce solutions
• Own architecture documentation including solution blueprints, integration designs, architecture decision records, and technical standards
• Translate business capabilities into scalable technical architectures and provide implementation guidance
• Develop proofs of concept and reference implementations to validate architectural approaches
• Provide selective hands-on technical involvement to validate architecture and solve complex design challenges
• Evaluate emerging technologies including AI and Salesforce platform innovations to enhance business capabilities
• Provide thought leadership in applying technology to transform service delivery
• Stay current with Salesforce releases, features, and best practices and recommend improvements
• Drive architectural decisions across multiple teams and present to senior leadership
• Mentor senior developers and technical leads through architecture reviews, coaching, and knowledge sharing
• Design solutions with operational monitoring, observability, logging, and production support considerations

Requirements

• 4-year college degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in Salesforce development and architecture
• Expert level understanding of the Salesforce product Suite
• Deep expertise in Salesforce architecture and code development for Sales, Service and Experience cloud
• Strong prior development/Salesforce coding experience to advise on code refactoring and design patterns
• Experience designing and delivering end-to-end Salesforce solutions for large, complex implementations
• Experience leading solutions design sessions and suggesting best practices
• Strong hands-on experience in Salesforce development and configuration including Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flow, APIs, platform events, batch processing, and integrations
• Ability to define system landscape and identify gaps between current and desired future state
• Understanding of Salesforce architecture and ability to design scalable solutions using industry best practices
• Familiarity with platform authentication patterns such as SAML, SSO, OAuth
• Strong understanding and experience with Salesforce environment management, release management, deployment tools, code versioning best practices and deployment methodologies
• Understanding of data sharing and visibility considerations in platform architecture
• Strong analytical thinking and communication skills to learn complex business domains and drive alignment
• Salesforce Certified Application Architect or Salesforce Certified System Architect certification required
• Authorized to work in the United States
• Preferred: Strong experience integrating Salesforce with external systems including MuleSoft
• Preferred: Experience with Data 360 and Agentforce
• Preferred: Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) certification
• Preferred: Strong experience in Agile delivery environments, SAFe experience a plus
• Preferred: Knowledge of AppExchange products such as Appinium and Skedulo
• Preferred: Other certifications including Salesforce Administrator, Salesforce Sales/Service Cloud Consultant, Salesforce Experience Cloud Consultant, B2B Solution Architect, Salesforce Certified Agentforce Specialist, Salesforce Certified Data 360 Consultant

Skills

• Salesforce Development
• Salesforce Architecture
• Salesforce Product Suite
• Apex Programming
• Lightning Web Components
• Salesforce Flow
• Salesforce APIs
• Platform Events
• Batch Processing
• Salesforce Integrations
• System Landscape Design
• Salesforce Authentication Patterns
• SAML 2.0
• SSO
• OAuth
• Salesforce Environment Management
• Release Management
• Testing Tools
• Code Versioning
• Deployment Methodologies
• Data Sharing Architecture
• Salesforce Certified Application Architect
• Salesforce Certified System Architect

Languages

English