Salesforce Enterprise Architect - Managing Consultant

Apex Systems; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental and Vision Insurance

401(k) with Employer Match

Paid Parental Leave

Vacation & Holidays

Tuition Reimbursement

Wellness Incentives

Job summary

Everforth Apex Systems is seeking a Salesforce Enterprise Architect – Managing Consultant to lead enterprise architecture, pre-sales, and delivery for strategic Salesforce initiatives. You will partner with client executives to shape strategy and translate it into scalable, secure Salesforce solutions.

The role is on-site in Virginia Beach, VA with occasional travel. You will mentor architects, drive architecture reviews, and ensure successful production delivery across multi-cloud ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience architecting and delivering large-scale Salesforce transformations.
• Proven ability to operate as Enterprise Architect and senior technical authority.
• Deep expertise in multi-cloud Salesforce architecture, integrations, APIs, security, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical trusted advisor to CIOs, CTOs, and business stakeholders.
• Lead target-state architecture across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Data 360.
• Lead pre-sales discovery, architecture development, and executive solution presentations.

Skills

Salesforce architecture

Enterprise architecture

Pre-sales leadership

Executive communication

Tools

Apex

Lightning Web Components

Flow

DevOps

CI/CD

Environment strategy

Job description

## Job Description# Salesforce Enterprise Architect - Managing ConsultantApply**Job#: 3058406****Job Description:****SALESFORCE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT – MANAGING CONSULTANT****WHO WE ARE**Everforth Apex Systems is a leading global technology and digital engineering firm dedicated to helping organizations adapt, innovate, and thrive in a world of constant change. Leveraging deep industry insights and proven expertise, we deliver endto-end solutions that accelerate time-to-value and realize our clients’ digital visions across commercial and federal sectors. Our comprehensive solution portfolio spans AI & data, cloud and infrastructure, digital engineering, customer experience, cybersecurity, enterprise platforms, application development, strategy, transformation, and managed services. Powered by proprietary assets, accelerators, and strong alliances with cutting-edge technology partners—including Adobe, AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce, and more—we turn complexity into progress and measurable business outcomes. With a presence in over 70 markets across North America, Europe, and India, Everforth Apex Systems innovates alongside our customers, building and deploying tailored artificial intelligence solutions to enhance business value and improve customer experiences. As part of the commercial segment of Everforth, we are committed to driving the next wave of global IT services and digital transformation.**JOB DESCRIPTION**Everforth Apex Systems is seeking an exceptional Managing Consultant – Salesforce Enterprise Architect to serve as one of the most senior technical leaders within our industry-focused Salesforce Practice, connecting consulting-led growth with enterprise architecture and delivery. This role combines enterprise architecture, strategic consulting, pre-sales solution leadership, and delivery technical authority. You will partner with client executives and technology leaders to shape Salesforce strategy, define enterprise architectures, help win complex opportunities, and ensure solutions are successfully carried from vision through production. We are looking for someone customers trust with consequential platform decisions and delivery teams look to for technical direction. **RESPONSIBLITIES:**Serve as the technical trusted advisor• Advise client CIOs, CTOs, technology leaders, architects, product leaders, and business stakeholders on Salesforce strategy and investment decisions. • Facilitate executive, business, and technical discovery sessions; establish the business case, value measures, process and change implications, and pragmatic roadmaps before committing to build. • Communicate architecture decisions, risks, options, and tradeoffs clearly to executive and technical audiences. Lead enterprise Salesforce architecture• Own target-state architecture and technical strategy across complex, multi-cloud Salesforce environments. • Define scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions spanning Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Data 360, Agentforce, Platform, and Salesforce industry clouds, with particular emphasis on Life Sciences Cloud and Consumer Goods Cloud. • Establish integration, API, data, identity, security, automation, DevOps, environment, and user-experience strategies. • Serve as design authority, lead architecture reviews, and establish technical governance, standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns. • Assess technical debt, platform health, performance, scalability, security, and modernization opportunities. • Translate industry processes and data models into target-state architecture, using industry-cloud capabilities before introducing custom solutions; guide Life Sciences Cloud or Consumer Goods Cloud solutioning in partnership with industry specialists. **Lead pre-sales and strategic solutioning**• Lead technical discovery, solution visioning, architecture development, estimation, and executive solution presentations for strategic pursuits. • Partner with Sales, Practice Leadership, Delivery, industry stakeholders, and Salesforce teams to shape differentiated, deliverable solutions and support industry-specific co-sell and co-solutioning pursuits. • Define scope, assumptions, architecture, implementation approach, dependencies, risks, and key technical decisions; validate skills, resource availability, team mix, delivery locations, ramp plans, and estimates before proposal submission. • Contribute to proposals, SOWs, demonstrations, and customer architecture reviews; ensure what is sold can be delivered. • Shape integrated Advise, Transform, Modernize, and Run engagements, connecting business value, implementation, technical-debt reduction, and recurring managed services without blurring delivery ownership. Provide technical leadership through delivery• Transition seamlessly from pre-sales into delivery and maintain architectural ownership through production. • Partner with Enterprise Delivery Leads, Program Managers, Solution Architects, Technical Leads, functional teams, and engineers to translate architecture into executable solutions. • Guide critical design decisions, resolve complex technical issues, and protect architecture integrity throughout delivery. • Support testing strategy, deployment planning, production readiness, stabilization, and technical risk resolution. • Partner across data, application engineering, enterprise transformation, and managed support capabilities on Data 360, headless/composable architectures, AI readiness, centers of excellence, and agentic service operations. Strengthen the Salesforce Practice• Serve as a senior technical authority and mentor for Solution Architects, Technical Leads, developers, and consultants. • Create reusable architecture assets, industry data and process models, assessment and migration accelerators, standards, and technical playbooks; contribute to centers of excellence and the Agentic Skills Hub. • Support architecture health reviews across strategic engagements and bring delivery lessons back into future solutioning. • Help advance practice capabilities in Agentforce, Data 360, integration, industry solutions, and AI-enabled transformation. **ON-SITE WORK EXPECTATIONS (US & CANADA)**As a consulting position, the work location for this role varies according to client needs. Accordingly, this is not a remote position. While some assignments may be performed largely remotely, other assignments require fully on-site work, hybrid work, and/or occasional travel. **JOB REQUIREMENTS**• Extensive experience architecting and delivering large-scale, enterprise Salesforce transformations. • Proven ability to operate as the Enterprise Architect and senior technical authority on complex programs. • Demonstrated Salesforce pre-sales success across discovery, solutioning, architecture, estimation, proposals, presentations, and executive discussions. • Deep expertise in multi-cloud Salesforce architecture, integrations, APIs, middleware, data, identity, security, and enterprise application ecosystems. • Strong knowledge of Salesforce engineering, including Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flow, DevOps, CI/CD, release management, and environment strategy. • Experience establishing architecture governance, technical standards, and design-review processes. • Executive-level consulting presence with strong facilitation, communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills. • Demonstrated ability to remain engaged through delivery and translate strategic architecture into executable solutions. • Salesforce Application Architect certification and/or Salesforce System Architect certification. • Salesforce Data 360 certification. • Salesforce Agentforce Specialist certification. • Demonstrated Salesforce industry-cloud expertise, including industry-specific business processes, data models, integration needs, and solution design. Direct architecture or implementation experience in Life Sciences Cloud or Consumer Goods Cloud is strongly preferred. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS• Enterprise architecture across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Data 360, Agentforce, and MuleSoft. • Complex ecosystems involving ERP, cloud platforms, identity platforms, middleware, APIs, and enterprise data platforms. • Salesforce modernization, consolidation, platform rationalization, or multi-cloud transformation. • Consulting or Salesforce implementation-partner leadership, including large pursuits and complex SOWs. • Architecture leadership across multiple concurrent engagements and responsible enterprise AI or agentic solutions. • Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud or Consumer Goods Cloud implementation or architecture experience and/or a relevant Salesforce certification in either cloud. Depth in at least one is preferred; expertise in both is not required. • Veeva-to-Life Sciences Cloud migration planning or delivery, including process and data mapping, integration dependencies, and transition architecture. • Industry-led consulting in Healthcare & Life Sciences or Consumer Goods, Retail & Travel, with the ability to translate domain needs into practical Salesforce solutions. • Architecture for Agentforce Voice, contact center, IT/HR service, Field Service, or ongoing managed services; use of approved AI-assisted delivery methods with appropriate governance. **OUR COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS**• Competitive Salary• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) with Employer Contribution• Flexible Spending Accounts• Long and Short-Term Disability• Life Insurance• Voluntary Benefits• Employee Assistance Program• Paid Parental Leave• Wellness Incentives• Vacation and Holiday Pay• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Employer Match• Employee Stock Purchase• Training and Advancement opportunities• Tuition Reimbursement• Birthdays Off• Philanthropic Opportunities• Referral Program• Partial Gym Membership Paid• Team Building Events• Discount Programs *Everforth Apex is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact [e-mail].***Employee Type:** FullTime**Remote:** Yes**Location:** Virginia Beach, VA, US**Job Type:** Internal**Date Posted:** November 5, 2026**Pay Range:** $175,000 - $195,000