Technical Architect at Salesforce

Salesforce; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Technical Architect to design and lead complex Salesforce solutions for clients. You will drive architecture, API integrations, data migration, and governance across projects, ensuring scalable, high-volume systems.

Responsibilities include defining requirements, leading design sessions, enforcing standards, and supporting pre-sales activities. Expect 50-75% travel to client sites with senior leadership accountability.

Qualifications

• Strong CRM experience with Salesforce platform.
• Senior leadership expertise.
• Expert-level Salesforce product knowledge across Sales, Service, Community, Marketing.
• Understand architecture to design scalable, performance-driven solutions.
• Knowledge of design patterns and large data volume considerations.
• Understand data sharing and visibility within architecture.
• Familiar with SAML, SSO, OAuth authentication patterns.
• Knowledge of data integration tools and Salesforce integrations (ETL, CPQ, marketing automation, reporting).
• Strong environment and release management, code versioning, deployment practices.
• Experience with TLS/SSL platform security.
• Experience defining architecture landscapes and comprehensive solutions.
• Background in building large web-based systems or full software lifecycles.
• Active Salesforce certifications or ability to obtain them on hire.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with client stakeholders to define requirements and deliverables.
• Translate business needs into well-architected Salesforce solutions.
• Lead technical design sessions and document solutions aligned with objectives.
• Provide oversight and governance of Salesforce projects.
• Define and follow coding standards and perform code reviews.
• Manage delivery of custom development, integrations, and data migration.
• Maintain target billable utilization for the role.
• Understand projects deeply and troubleshoot complex issues.
• Participate in pre-sales activities such as discovery and POC development.
• Liaise with Salesforce product teams to support implementations.
• Travel to client sites for projects, estimated 50-75%.

Skills

CRM experience

Senior leadership

Salesforce product suite

Systems architecture

Design patterns

Data sharing and visibility

SAML SSO OAuth

Data integration tools

Environment and release management

Code versioning and deployment

Platform security (TLS/SSL)

Web-based systems design

Salesforce certifications

Job description

This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

Job Category: Customer Success

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

The Technical Architect is responsible for successfully designing and leading the successful delivery of complex Salesforce solutions for our customers. These technologies include—but are not necessarily limited to Salesforce.com products and APIs, Apex/Visualforce, Lightning, mobile development technologies, and integration/ETL technologies. You are both a big picture thinker and an in-depth problem solver, your knowledge and skills are both broad and deep. You take pride in designing systems that stand up to high volumes and won't fail at critical points. You have a good mix of technical and enterprise skills when it comes to architecting a solution. The solutions you design are built for the long term and will scale with the customer's growth plans seamlessly. You have validated experience integrating systems via APIs as well as a strong development background.

YOUR IMPACT

• Collaborate with client stakeholders to define requirements, and deliverables, and set and handle expectations.
• Translate business requirements into well-architected solutions that best leverage the Salesforce platform.
• Lead technical design sessions; architect and document technical solutions aligned with client business objectives; identify gaps between client's current and desired end states.
• Provide oversight and governance of Salesforce projects.
• Follow and help define coding standards.
• Lead code reviews during projects to ensure quality and appropriate design patterns are followed.
• Handle the technical delivery of custom development, integrations, and data migration elements of a Salesforce implementation.
• Maintain a target billable utilization aligned to the role.
• Ability to understand a project and deep dive to debug issues.
• From time-to-time, the TA may be expected to partake in other pre-sales activities such as discovery and technical deep-dive sessions, Proof-Of-Concept (POC) development with prospects.
• Liaise with Salesforce product teams to support client implementations.
• Travels to client sites for projects, estimated 50-75%.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong CRM experience with solid background on the Salesforce platform.
• Senior Leadership expertise.
• Expert-level understanding of the Salesforce product suite, including Sales, Service, Community, Marketing, and Community Clouds.
• Understanding of systems architecture and ability to design scalable performance-driven solutions.
• Understanding of key design patterns and large data volume limitations and best practices.
• Understanding of data sharing and visibility considerations and how these play into platform architecture.
• Familiarity with platform authentication patterns (SAML, SSO, OAuth).
• Knowledge of data integration tools and experience integrating Salesforce with different business systems (ETL, CPQ, marketing automation, reporting, etc.).
• Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies.
• Experience with platform security capabilities (TLS, SSL).

Expert-level experience defining the system architecture landscape, identifying gaps between current and desired end-states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will enable the achievement of the desired business outcomes.

Strong background in the design/development of large web-based systems, or complete software product lifecycle exposure.

Active Salesforce certifications or ability to achieve relevant certifications upon hire.

Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best , and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best . Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

Accommodations

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