Senior Salesforce Architect

Job Title:

Senior Salesforce Architect
Job Overview:
We are seeking an experienced, senior-level Salesforce Architect to support and enhance our Salesforce platform. This role serves as a primary senior architect and administrator within a collaborative team environment, working alongside our lead Salesforce architect. The ideal candidate brings advanced platform expertise, strong judgment in scalable system design, hands-on experience implementing complex automation, and a proven ability to improve legacy architecture.
This role requires a strategic technology leader with deep expertise in Salesforce architecture, enterprise integrations, AI-enabled automation, data architecture, and platform governance.
This position is project and task focused, executing against a strategic vision while bringing senior-level ownership to solution design and delivery. The Senior Salesforce Architect will regularly work with stakeholders to gather requirements, document business processes, and contribute to solution architecture in a collaborative manner. Their primary responsibility is to deliver high-quality, scalable, extensible implementations that support both current and future business needs.

Key Responsibilities:

Serve as a primary architect and administrator for Salesforce, collaborating closely with the lead architect for direction, strategy, and architectural review.
Design, build, and optimize complex Salesforce Flows and automation to support advanced business processes, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and best practices.
Improve legacy structures and existing architectural components by refactoring outdated configurations, workflows, flows, and processes.
Implement new system integrations, including data mapping, API-led or headless architecture considerations, workflow logic, error handling, and cross-system synchronization requirements.
Configure and maintain Salesforce objects, fields, record types, permission sets, profiles, validation rules, layouts/Lightning apps, and other advanced platform features.
Execute and manage project tasks, enhancements, and platform updates based on a defined strategic plan.
Support data integrity and quality initiatives, including advanced data loads, data transformations, and ongoing data maintenance.
Develop and maintain sophisticated reports and dashboards to support visibility into operations and business performance.
Meet with stakeholders to gather requirements, understand business needs, and document processes in clear, actionable formats.
Collaborate with team members to architect improved solutions, ensuring technically sound, extensible, and scalable implementations that reflect senior-level architectural judgment.

Qualifications and Skills:

Required:

Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator, System Architect, Application Architect
Minimum 8 years of REAL WORLD Salesforce administration and architecture experience, including designing and deploying comprehensive architectural solutions, complex Flows, and multi-level automations.
Strong understanding of complex workflows, criteria-driven automation, and data relationships.
Experience implementing or supporting integrations between Salesforce and external systems, including API-based integrations and cross-platform data flows.

Experience with AI-enabled Salesforce capabilities, AI-assisted automation, predictive insights, or similar AI-driven business workflow solutions.
Demonstrated experience improving legacy architecture and modernizing Salesforce implementations. You will be responsible for permissions forensics, field retirement, complex Flow consolidation, etc.
Excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
Proven ability to execute project-based tasks, make sound senior-level technical decisions, and deliver high-quality technical solutions.
Preferred:
Experience administering Certinia (Financial Force) PSA.

Experience with sales and marketing automation tools such as Sales Loft, Hub Spot, and Salesforce Engagement platforms.
Familiarity with Salesforce Headless 360 or headless/composable Salesforce architecture patterns.
Familiarity with Apex, SOQL, or LWC helpful but not required.