About the Role
Seeking a hands-on Salesforce Architect with deep expertise across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Data Cloud, AI, integrations, and enterprise automation. This role combines strategic solution architecture with strong technical execution, leading end-to-end Salesforce architecture, designing scalable integrations and data pipelines, implementing intelligent automation, and enabling AI-driven CRM capabilities. This is a highly technical leadership role requiring both architectural ownership and active development involvement.
Responsibilities
- Architect scalable, secure Salesforce solutions across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Data Cloud.
- Design data models, security architecture, sharing models, and role hierarchies.
- Define integration patterns (real-time, batch, event-driven).
- Produce technical architecture documents, solution designs, and governance standards.
- Ensure adherence to Salesforce best practices and platform limits.
- Architect Service Cloud case management lifecycle, SLAs, entitlements, and escalation frameworks.
- Optimize agent console performance and service analytics.
- Design and implement Salesforce Data Cloud for unified customer profiles.
- Architect data ingestion from CRM, ERP, warehouses, and external systems.
- Implement identity resolution, harmonization, and calculated insights.
- Enable real-time segmentation and activation into CRM workflows.
- Manage large data volumes and performance optimization.
- Architect AI-driven use cases using Salesforce native AI capabilities.
- Implement predictive scoring (opportunity, case classification).
- Configure Next Best Action frameworks.
- Enable generative AI use cases (case summaries, email drafting, knowledge generation).
- Embed AI insights into automated workflows and decision processes.
- Design and implement REST, SOAP, Bulk, and Streaming API integrations.
- Architect inbound and outbound integrations with ERP, marketing platforms, and data warehouses.
- Work with middleware platforms (MuleSoft, Boomi, Workato, etc.).
- Implement OAuth 2.0, JWT, SAML, and secure authentication mechanisms.
- Design event-driven architectures using Platform Events and Change Data Capture.
- Ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and monitoring of integrations.
- Design and implement ETL pipelines into Salesforce.
- Architect reverse ETL workflows to sync data from multiple sources back into Salesforce.
- Manage data transformations, deduplication, and reconciliation.
- Ensure data quality, consistency, and governance.
- Architect complex automation using record-triggered and scheduled flows, orchestration, apex-based automation etc.
Requirements
- 7–10+ years of Salesforce experience.
- 3+ years in an Architect or Technical Lead capacity.
- Experience designing enterprise-scale CRM ecosystems.
- Strong understanding of identity, security, and access models.
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
- Familiarity with data warehouse ecosystems.
- Experience implementing AI use cases within Salesforce.
- Strong stakeholder communication and executive presence.
- Ability to translate business strategy into scalable technical solutions.
Skills
- Salesforce
- Sales Cloud
- Service Cloud
- Data Cloud
- AI
- Integrations
- Enterprise Automation
- Apex
- LWC
- SOQL/SOSL
- Salesforce APIs
- Integration architecture
- Service Cloud implementations
- Data Cloud architecture
- ETL
- Reverse ETL pipelines
- REST APIs
- SOAP APIs
- Bulk APIs
- Streaming APIs
- Middleware platforms
- MuleSoft
- Boomi
- Workato
- OAuth 2.0
- JWT
- SAML
- Platform Events
- Change Data Capture
- ETL pipelines
- Reverse ETL workflows
- Record-triggered flows
- Scheduled flows
- Orchestration
- Apex-based automation
Experience Level
- 7-10+ years of Salesforce experience
- 3+ years in an Architect or Technical Lead capacity
