Salesforce Architect

Overview

Great Day Improvements - Salesforce Architect

Job-type:
Full-Time, exempt

Location:

Twinsburg, OH preferred. This is a primarily remote position with on-site attendance as needed. Fully remote candidates may also be considered based on their qualifications, with occasional travel to Twinsburg. Salary Range: $160,000 - $180,000 base compensation. This range represents a good faith estimate of the expected base salary for this position. Final base salary will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and alignment with market data.

Job Summary

Great Day Improvements is seeking an experienced, hands-on Salesforce Architect to own our Salesforce ecosystem from end to end, including its integration with enterprise systems.

In this role, you will define Salesforce architecture, establish scalable platform standards, and partner with our Integration Architect to design how Salesforce connects across the enterprise. You'll work closely with business leaders, engineering teams, and external partners to translate business priorities into secure, maintainable solutions and drive successful delivery.

Beyond technical design, you will play a critical role in improving platform health, strengthening governance, reducing technical complexity, and ensuring Salesforce can continue to scale as our business grows.

Responsibilities

• Own Salesforce architecture and technical delivery. Lead end-to-end platform architecture across the customer lifecycle, including configuration, automation, custom development, and connectivity with enterprise systems. Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex Salesforce and cross-system challenges.
• Drive architectural decisions and business transformation. Translate business objectives into executable solution designs; lead technical design sessions; and define functional and non-functional requirements covering performance, scalability, security, monitoring, supportability, and operational readiness. Resolve ambiguity, evaluate technical tradeoffs, remove delivery roadblocks, and align solutions with business strategy and enterprise standards.
• Establish platform standards and governance. Define and enforce standards for configuration, metadata, naming conventions, automation, code quality, environments, and release management. Develop reusable reference architectures, solution patterns, system diagrams, data model documentation, architecture decision records, and design guidelines. Lead solution reviews to ensure adherence to architectural standards, reduce rework, and improve delivery consistency.
• Own Salesforce data architecture. Establish scalable data models, object relationships, field strategies, validation rules, and data integrity controls. Define lifecycle management and extensibility standards that support reliable reporting, analytics readiness, and consistent business operations.
• Lead Salesforce integration architecture. Partner with the Integration Architect on enterprise integration strategy, including systems of record, data ownership, API and event contracts, data flows, and integration patterns. Own Salesforce-specific design decisions involving platform events, change data capture, real-time versus bulk processing, and governor limits. Establish monitoring, error‑handling, and recovery requirements while minimizing duplicated logic across systems.
• Establish security and risk controls. Own Salesforce security architecture, including sharing models, roles, permission sets, and data visibility. Partner with enterprise security teams to meet compliance and audit expectations, proactively identify architectural risks, and implement solutions that prevent…