Senior Salesforce Technical Architect - Enterprise Solutions

Salesforce, Inc.

Vaud

On-site

CHF 180,000 - 280,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Technical Architect within the Customer Success Group to act as a strategic advisor and platform expert for enterprise clients, turning business priorities into scalable Salesforce solutions.

You will define solution visions, lead technical architecture, and guide implementations across sales, service, and connected processes, aligning business needs with platform capabilities while managing complexity and technical debt.

Qualifications

Professional working proficiency in German or French, both written and spoken, with the ability to lead customer workshops and discuss architecture decisions in one of these languages.
Authorized to work in Switzerland with a valid Swiss work permit where required.
8+ years in enterprise architecture or technical consulting, incl. 4+ years leading Salesforce implementation projects.
Consulting background with discovery workshops and translating business needs into architecture and delivery plans.
Strong Salesforce design skills, including data modelling, integration, identity, security and scalability.
Hands-on configuration and development experience with Salesforce customization and OO languages.
Experience with APIs, enterprise integration patterns and data migration.
Understanding enterprise security, privacy and governance in solution design and delivery.
Proven ability to lead technical teams and deliver in agile, distributed environments.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to influence senior leaders.

Responsibilities

Serve as a trusted advisor to customers, aligning business objectives with Salesforce architecture and delivery roadmaps.
Lead architecture for complex engagements, coordinating solution/technical architects across customers, partners and Salesforce teams.
Translate business needs into practical designs, balancing platform capabilities and long-term maintainability.
Design data, integration and security architectures connecting Salesforce with enterprise apps and analytics platforms.
Collaborate with security, privacy, and governance teams to translate requirements into controls and audits.
Review architecture and delivery approaches to ensure performance, scalability and maintainability; guide configuration and development.
Shape migration and rollout strategies addressing data quality and multi-country deployments.
Plan delivery with project managers, manage dependencies and risks, set clear expectations.
Evaluate AI/automation use cases with clients, defining data access and oversight criteria.
Mentor customers and colleagues; contribute reusable patterns; support pre-sales as needed.