Salesforce Architect: Enterprise Platform & Integrations

OU Education Services; Norman (OK); On-site; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

OU Education Services, a nonprofit focused on online learning for the University of Oklahoma System, seeks a Salesforce Architect to own architecture, solution design, and integrations. You will translate business needs into scalable Salesforce solutions, define platform standards, and guide partners to ensure long-term ownership and maintainability.

You will collaborate with IT leadership, product, operations, enrollment, marketing, data, PMO, and vendors to deliver secure, well-structured

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing and delivering enterprise Salesforce solutions.
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce architecture, data modeling, automation, security, sharing, integrations, and development patterns.
• Experience translating complex business requirements into structured technical solutions.
• Experience designing Salesforce integrations using APIs, middleware, batch processing, or event-driven approaches.
• Ability to assess feasibility, scalability, and architectural risk.

Responsibilities

• Own Salesforce architecture and solution design across major initiatives and releases.
• Translate business capabilities and product requirements into scalable, secure Salesforce solutions.
• Define and maintain standards for data models, automation, security, customization, and development.
• Determine when to use native Salesforce functionality, configuration, custom development, integration, or another platform.
• Evaluate architectural options, constraints, risks, and tradeoffs before implementation.
• Identify decisions that must be structurally correct early and capabilities that can be safely deferred.
• Own technical design for integrations into and out of Salesforce.
• Define appropriate integration approaches using APIs, middleware, batch processing, event-driven patterns, and vendor-managed interfaces.
• Partner with enterprise data and integration teams to establish system-of-record, data ownership, synchronization, and dependency approaches.
• Ensure Salesforce integrations include appropriate monitoring, error handling, reconciliation, and recovery.
• Maintain visibility into Salesforce dependencies across connected systems.
• Review solution designs, configurations, automations, and integration approaches.
• Challenge requirements or recommendations that introduce unnecessary complexity or technical debt.
• Establish technical standards for Salesforce environments, releases, deployments, and change management.
• Maintain visibility into architectural decisions, platform risks, and technical debt.
• Ensure Salesforce solutions remain understandable, supportable, and owned by OUES.
• Contribute to architecture documentation, solution designs, integration inventories, decision logs, and runbooks.
• Provide technical direction to Salesforce administrators, developers, vendors, and implementation partners.
• Review vendor proposals, technical recommendations, and implementation deliverables.
• Ensure external partners build against OUES architecture, standards, and long-term ownership needs.
• Serve as the technical point of escalation for Salesforce architecture, platform design, and integrations.
• Support release readiness by validating technical dependencies, environment needs, migration considerations, and risks.

Skills

Salesforce architecture

Enterprise Salesforce design

Data modeling

Automation

Integrations

Security

Communication

Technical leadership

Job description

OU Education Services, a nonprofit focused on online learning for the University of Oklahoma System, seeks a Salesforce Architect to own architecture, solution design, and integrations. You will translate business needs into scalable Salesforce solutions, define platform standards, and guide partners to ensure long-term ownership and maintainability.

You will collaborate with IT leadership, product, operations, enrollment, marketing, data, PMO, and vendors to deliver secure, well-structured