Salesforce Architect

CDW; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CDW seeks a Salesforce Solution Architect to provide deep Salesforce product and platform expertise and technical leadership for business transformation initiatives. You will collaborate with stakeholders, build prototypes, socialize your vision, and drive adoption of scalable, best-practice solutions across the Salesforce ecosystem.

Key responsibilities include guiding architects, SI partners, and stakeholders, contributing to program roadmaps, and aligning technology with business needs while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with 7+ years of hands-on Salesforce development.
• Experience across the SDLC from requirements to deployment and maintenance.
• Certifications in Salesforce CPQ and Salesforce Administration, plus Marketing Cloud is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to determine application needs.
• Demonstrate prototypes and iterate with user feedback to final solutions.
• Ensure scalable, native Salesforce implementations with platform best practices.
• Provide technical guidance to SI partners and project teams.
• Contribute to SAFE planning and align technology with business roadmaps.
• Advise on adoption, rationalize the tech landscape, and optimize costs.
• Collaborate with Salesforce Product Architects on CPQ/PSA roadmap.

Skills

LWC

Aura

Apex Programming

SOQL

VisualForce

RESTful Web Services

SDLC

Salesforce CPQ

Salesforce Administration

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Azure Service Bus

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Azure Service Bus

Job description

As a 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

Qualifications - Internal

Education and/or Experience Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
• 7+ years of strong hands‑on experience in LWC, Aura, Apex Programming, SOQL, VisualForce, RESTful Web Services

Required Qualifications

• 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 CRM, CPQ, Financial Force PSA and OMS etc. using Salesforce
• Experience integrating Salesforce with other products using Cloud middleware platforms like Azure Service Bus etc.
• Understanding of complex legacy technology landscape needed to create optimal hybrid solution architectures
• Certification in Salesforce CPQ and Salesforce Administration
• Saleforce Marketing Cloud