Technical Architect​/Senior Technical Architect- DevOps; Missionforce

Salesforce Professional Services is hiring Technical Architects with a Dev Ops focus to join the Missionforce team. As a Technical Architect, you will be serving as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform expert to the company’s largest, most complex customers in the Defense & National Security space.

The Dev Ops Technical Architect / Senior Technical Architect plays a pivotal role in both presales and implementation, shaping, scoping, and solutioning engagements to set customers up for success. This leader provides technical oversight and execution leadership on large-scale and mission-critical engagements while also serving as a trusted mentor to Salesforce teams and Federal clients. They're responsible for driving architectural excellence, strategic customer alignment, and fostering a high-performance culture within their teams.

• Serve as a trusted Dev Ops technical advisor to the client
• In this client-facing architectural role, you will advise, design, and manage the deployment of enterprise Dev Ops strategies, CI/CD orchestration pipelines, release governance models, and sandbox/production workflows
• Design, build, and optimize automated CI/CD pipelines leveraging Salesforce-native release tools (e.g., Dev Ops Center, Copado, Gearset, Flosum, AutoRABIT) alongside general-purpose CI/CD platforms (e.g., Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, Azure Dev Ops
• Establish source-driven development workflows and Git branching strategies aligned with Salesforce modular architectures using SFDX, Metadata API, and Unlocked Packaging
• Architect sandbox management frameworks, including refresh cycles, pre-refresh automation, and anonymized test data loading compliant with data security and privacy regulations (especially in Data Cloud-connected environments
• Implement static code analysis, automated pre-checks, security policies, and compliance validations within CI/CD pipelines to establish robust Dev Sec Ops  practices
• Evaluate customer Dev Ops processes, build/deployment pipelines, and organizational maturity; deliver actionable recommendations aligned with Salesforce best practices
• Identify and lead internal critical initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serving as an active contributor to the community’s overall knowledge base and expertise
• Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value
• Work collaboratively, having very strong communications skills, especially in teaching complex concepts and creative, prescriptive thinking
• Identify and proactively manage risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution
• Manage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party partners
• Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track, while ensuring solutions are extendable and maintainable going forward
• Work closely with Delivery Managers, Solution Architects, and directly with clients to architect technology solutions to meet client needs
• Contribute to a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies on enabling technologies including the Salesforce Platform

• 8+ years enterprise architecture or consulting experience on the Salesforce Platform
• Ability to define overall deployment orchestration plans, principles, objectives, and tactics
• Proficiency in setting up version control repositories and designing repository branch structures
• Ability to evaluate CI/CD pipeline maturity and provide recommendations to achieve customer business goals
• Strong application design skills combined with strong data, integration, and security architecture skills
• Stron…