Salesforce Senior Solution Architect

Harbor coat Consulting is growing, and we’re looking for an experienced Salesforce Senior Solution Architect to help shape and lead some of our most meaningful client solutions.

This is a senior, hands-on technical role for someone who can see the big picture, dig into complex business problems, and turn them into thoughtful, scalable Salesforce solutions. You’ll work across the full project lifecycle—from Discovery and technical assessment through architecture, build, UAT, and go-live—providing technical direction and keeping the solution connected to what the client is actually trying to accomplish.

We’re looking for someone with deep Salesforce technical and solution architecture skills first and foremost. You should be comfortable owning solution direction, making architectural decisions, guiding consultants and developers, reviewing technical work, and getting into Salesforce yourself when needed.

But great architecture at Harbor coat doesn’t happen in a vacuum. You’ll also work directly with clients—leading workshops, asking good questions, explaining tradeoffs, challenging assumptions when necessary, and helping people make smart decisions about their Salesforce platform.

If you’re someone who can whiteboard the future-state architecture, explain it to a room full of nontechnical stakeholders, turn it into something a team can actually build, and then help that team build it well, you’ll fit right in.

As a Senior Solution Architect, you'll own the technical and functional direction of Salesforce solutions across our client projects. On any given day, you might:

• Lead Discovery sessions, technical assessments, and solution-design workshops, digging into business processes, existing systems, pain points, constraints, and future-state goals.
• Translate complex business needs into clear, scalable Salesforce architecture and solution designs.
• Architect across the Salesforce platform, including data models, security and sharing, Flow and automation, integrations, reporting, Experience Cloud, and other platform capabilities.
• Evaluate existing Salesforce environments, identify technical debt or design concerns, and recommend practical paths forward.
• Design both the immediate solution and the future-state architecture and roadmap, making sure today's decisions don't create tomorrow's problems.
• Create useful technical and functional artifacts—solution outlines, business process flows, architecture and data diagrams, decision logs, requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria—that give the team a clear path to build.
• Make thoughtful tradeoffs between complexity, scalability, maintainability, timeline, budget, and what a client can realistically support after we're gone.
• Provide technical direction to Consultants, Developers, and Solution Architects throughout implementation.
• Review Flows, configuration, data models, permissions, integrations, and other deliverables to make sure we're building what we intended—and building it well.
• Prototype, configure, troubleshoot, or otherwise get hands‑on in Salesforce when that's the best way to solve a problem or move the team forward.
• Lead client conversations around architecture and solution decisions, explaining complex concepts in plain language and helping stakeholders understand their options.
• Know when to say, “Yes, Salesforce can do that. But I don't think that's how we should solve it.”
• Support demos, UAT, technical validation, release planning, and go-live readiness so the architecture holds up all the way through implementation.
• Lead Sales scoping calls with potential and current clients and assist in pre‑sales proposal presentations.
• Mentor other Salesforce professionals, particularly Solution Architects and Consultants,…