Lead Solutions Architect Salesforce CPQ

CDW; Vernon Hills (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

CDW is seeking a Lead Salesforce Solution Architect to provide deep technical leadership for transformative Salesforce solutions. You will collaborate with business and tech stakeholders to capture requirements, design robust architectures, and socialize a compelling vision for final implementations.

You will also prototype solutions, ensure native platform best practices, and guide integration with other CDW apps and systems, enabling scalable, cost-efficient outcomes.

Qualifications

• BS in CS or related field required; strong cloud and architecture background.
• 10+ years delivering software with leadership in lifecycle management.
• 5+ years as a Salesforce Solution Architect with hands-on practice.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical architecture and provide strong leadership on Salesforce solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable designs.
• Develop prototypes/POCs and socialize the technical vision for buy-in.
• Ensure solutions follow best practices for scalability and performance.
• Guide integration with external products and middleware platforms.
• Contribute to program roadmaps and architectural governance.
• Mentor teams on Salesforce CPQ, PSA, and related modules.
• Drive adoption and rationalize technology landscape for cost efficiency.

Skills

Salesforce development (LWC, Aura, APE

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Salesforce CPQ Certification

Salesforce Administrator Certification

Tools

Azure Service Bus

Job description

As a Lead Salesforce Solution Architect, you will need a deep understanding of the Salesforce product and platform to provide strong technical leadership on solutions that enable CDW's business transformation outcomes. Equally important, you would be collaborating with stakeholders within tech and in the business to understand business requirements, develop prototypes/POCs, and socialize your vision to evolve and gain buy‑in for the final technical solutions.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to determine business‑specific application needs
• Demonstrate application prototypes and integrate user feedback to evolve final solutions
• Work with EA to ensure implementation follows native platform best practices for maintaining scalability and performance within the platform ecosystem and with other CDW supporting apps/systems
• Work with SI's to ensure implementation of architectural guidelines and support the team with technical guidance and POC's
• Work with the portfolio management team to participate in SAFE planning and contribute to a program vision while advising and articulating a cohesive technology and business aligned roadmap
• Incorporate industry trends and best practices in our software design and development frameworks
• Enable large‑scale change by focusing on technical process improvement and operational excellence
• Advise the business on ways to improve user adoption and opportunities to rationalize technology landscape and improve cost efficiencies. Work with Salesforce Product Architects to push critical features to future product releases of CPQ, PSA etc

Education and/or Experience Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science
• 10+ years of overall experience into Software Development Life Cycle as a leader
• 5+ years of experience as a Salesforce Solution Architect

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of strong hands‑on experience in LWC, Aura, Apex Programming, SOQL, VisualForce, RESTful Web Services
• Working knowledge in all stages of the software development life cycle: requirements gathering, design, development, testing and implementation
• Experience in solution designing on Order to Cash platforms like Salesforce CRM, Salesforce CPQ, Financial Force PSA, Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Order management
• Experience integrating Salesforce with other products using Cloud middleware platforms like Azure Service Bus etc
• Certification in Salesforce CPQ and Salesforce Administration
• Understanding of complex legacy technology landscape needed to create optimal hybrid solution architecture