Lead Salesforce Platform Architect

McKesson’s Corporate; Cork; On-site; EUR 84,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson is seeking a senior Salesforce architect to provide deep technical ownership of platform architecture across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, CPQ, and related services. You will define guardrails for secure, scalable solutions and guide teams on governor limits, performance, and maintainability.

Lead architecture reviews, establish integration patterns with MuleSoft, REST/SOAP, and events, and partner with security and risk teams on least privilege and encryption.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Salesforce architecture, engineering or enterprise CRM delivery with hands‑on technical depth.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Expertise across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, CPQ, Apex, LWC, Flow, platform limits and Salesforce security architecture.

Responsibilities

• Define platform architecture across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, CPQ, Experience Cloud where applicable, Apex, LWC and Flow.
• Own reference architectures and standards for integration, APIs, events, data, identity, access, security and environment strategy.
• Lead complex solution designs and architecture reviews, documenting options, decisions, risks and technical debt.

Skills

Salesforce architecture

CRM delivery

MuleSoft integration

APEX, LWC, Flow

Security architecture

DevOps & CI/CD

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

MuleSoft

REST/SOAP APIs

Job description

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care. What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people.

Role Purpose

Provide deep technical ownership for Salesforce platform architecture. Define the patterns and guardrails that enable delivery teams to build secure, scalable and maintainable solutions while modernizing the ecosystem across CRM, integration, data, DevOps and AI capabilities.

What You Will Do

Define platform architecture across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, CPQ, Experience Cloud where applicable, Apex, LWC and Flow. Own reference architectures and standards for integration, APIs, events, data, identity, access, security and environment strategy. Lead complex solution designs and architecture reviews, documenting options, decisions, risks and technical debt. Guide engineering teams on governor limits, performance, scalability, maintainability, reuse and platform-native design. Shape MuleSoft and enterprise integration patterns, including reliability, observability, error handling and lifecycle governance. Partner with security and risk teams on least privilege, sharing models, permission strategy, encryption, auditability and secure design. Establish DevOps, CI/CD, automated quality, sandbox, release and source-control standards. Mentor solution architects and senior engineers and serve as the escalation point for critical platform issues.

First Six-Month Priorities

Baseline platform architecture, integration landscape, security model, major pain points and technical debt. Publish prioritized architecture guardrails and decision records for the highest-risk domains. Establish design review and technical quality practices that accelerate rather than block delivery. Create a modernization plan for integrations, automation, custom code, environments and release engineering. Build an actionable platform health and architecture risk backlog with owners and sequencing.

Required Qualifications

10+ years in Salesforce architecture, engineering or enterprise CRM delivery with hands‑on technical depth. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Expertise across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, CPQ, Apex, LWC, Flow, platform limits and Salesforce security architecture. Experience designing enterprise integrations using MuleSoft, REST/SOAP APIs, events and asynchronous patterns. Strong knowledge of data architecture, sharing, roles, permission sets, identity, access and compliance-oriented design. Experience with architecture governance, technical design authority, code/configuration reviews and technical debt management. Ability to translate complex technical choices into clear guidance for engineers, product teams and business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

Salesforce Application Architect and System Architect credentials strongly preferred; advanced architect journey is valued. Experience with Salesforce DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability and enterprise release models. Experience with AI/agent capabilities, enterprise data platforms and responsible platform extensibility. Experience in regulated, healthcare or other large, highly integrated enterprises.

Total Rewards

That’s why we have a Total Rewards package that includes comprehensive benefits to support physical, mental, and financial well-being. Our Total Rewards offerings serve the different needs of our diverse employee population and ensure they are the healthiest versions of themselves. As part of Total Rewards, we are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets.

• In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.

The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations.

Our Base Pay Range for this position €84,100 - €140,100.