PharmaSr Solution Architect

Pharma2 Sr Solution Architect Job#: 3056999

Job Description:

Senior Salesforce Solution Architect Position Summary The Senior Salesforce Solution Architect will provide end-to-end solution architecture leadership for a complex Salesforce platform optimization and modernization initiative.

The architect will establish the target-state architecture and provide technical governance across five primary work streams:

Storage and archival

Trigger framework modernizationQA automation

Environment refresh and data masking

Flow modernization

The role will partner closely with Salesforce developers, technical leads, QA, data, Dev Ops, business analysts, and project leadership to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with established Salesforce architecture standards.

The architect will support the engagement from discovery and architecture validation through sprint execution, testing, release readiness, hypercare, and technical transition.

Core Responsibilities
1. Solution Architecture & Technical Strategy Own the overall Salesforce solution architecture and ensure consistency across all work streams.

Translate business and technical requirements into scalable solution designs and implementation patterns.

Assess the current Salesforce landscape, identify architectural risks and technical debt, and define appropriate modernization approaches.

Establish target-state architecture, design principles, technical standards, and implementation guardrails.

Evaluate solution options and document key architecture decisions, trade-offs, dependencies, and constraints.

Ensure new solutions favor maintainability, scalability, platform-native capabilities, and appropriate separation of concerns.
2. Salesforce Automation Modernization Establish architectural standards for Apex triggers, Flow, and other Salesforce automation.

Define a consistent trigger architecture, including bypass controls, execution management, error handling, and appropriate functional isolation.

Guide modernization of legacy automation into maintainable Salesforce patterns.

Define standards for migration from legacy Process Builder and Workflow Rule automation to Salesforce Flow.

Review automation for duplication, unnecessary complexity, governor-limit exposure, recursion risks, and conflicting execution paths.

Establish reusable patterns and governance to limit future accumulation of technical debt.
3. Data Lifecycle, Storage & Archival Define the architecture for Salesforce data retention, archival, and long-term storage.

Assess object relationships and downstream dependencies that could be affected by archival.

Establish patterns that preserve required access and application functionality while reducing unnecessary platform storage consumption.

Define appropriate approaches for sandbox validation and controlled production archival.

Partner with data and business stakeholders to translate retention requirements into viable technical designs.

Ensure archival solutions account for integrations, reporting, analytics, automation, and other dependent platform capabilities.
4. Environment Strategy & Data Masking Define Salesforce environment-management and refresh architecture.

Establish technical patterns for identifying and protecting sensitive data within non-production environments.

Guide the design of repeatable data-masking and selective-refresh processes.

Ensure environment strategies support development, QA, regression testing, integration testing, and release activities.

Define technical validation criteria for environment refresh and masking processes.

Identify dependencies between environment readiness and downstream testing or modernization activities.
5. Quality Engineering & Dev Ops Architecture Partner with QA and engineering teams to…