Senior Salesforce CTA Architect & Tech Leader

Focus Financial Partners; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Focus Financial Partners is seeking a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) to serve as the senior technical authority for the Salesforce ecosystem. You will translate the CRM vision and platform roadmap into scalable, secure architectures across CRM, integrations, data, and enabling technologies.

You will lead architecture governance, mentor architects and developers, and own the target state architecture and technical roadmap while partnering with the Head of CRM on platform

Qualifications

• 15+ years of enterprise application architecture experience.
• 12+ years Salesforce platform experience spanning architecture, solution design, integrations, automation, and enterprise platform delivery.
• 5+ years providing architecture leadership for enterprise CRM transformation initiatives.
• Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) required.
• Experience establishing architecture standards, governance processes, and enterprise design patterns.
• Experience developing architecture strategies across CRM ecosystems, including Salesforce, data platforms, middleware, identity providers, marketing technologies, and third-party applications.
• Proven experience designing scalable, multi-cloud Salesforce solutions in complex regulated environments.
• Deep expertise in Salesforce Financial Services Cloud and enterprise CRM ecosystems.
• Strong experience with large scale Salesforce deployments, complex integrations, data architecture, API frameworks, middleware platforms, event-driven design, and high-volume data processing.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Experience with Data Cloud, AI, Agentforce, and emerging Salesforce platform capabilities preferred.
• Experience with Apex, LWC, Flow, OmniStudio, Platform Events, APIs, and modern Salesforce development patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to balance architecture governance with hands-on project delivery and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architectural oversight for the delivery of custom development, integrations, data migration, and platform modernization initiatives, ensuring alignment with approved architecture, security requirements, and enterprise standards.
• Translate business requirements and strategic objectives into scalable solution architectures and technical implementation approaches that deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Drive adoption of AI assisted engineering practices, automation frameworks, and emerging Salesforce capabilities to accelerate solution delivery while maintaining architecture, security, and quality standards.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to define requirements, deliverables, and expectations.
• Lead technical design sessions and solution workshops.
• Provide technical oversight and governance of strategic Salesforce projects.
• Provide expertise around design, feasibility, and estimation.
• Coach and mentor technical and functional team members.
• Lead code reviews and establish development standards.
• Own the target state architecture and technical roadmap for the Salesforce ecosystem.
• Serve as the final technical decision maker for complex architecture, integration, security, and data-related challenges.
• Evaluate architectural tradeoffs and provide recommendations regarding build vs buy decisions, technical debt remediation, and platform investments.
• Establish architecture review processes and approve solution designs for high impact initiatives.
• Define architecture standards for Financial Services Cloud, Data Cloud, Agentforce, integrations, DevOps, and workflow automation capabilities.
• Partner with the Head of CRM to identify platform modernization opportunities and prioritize architectural improvements.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Salesforce

Architecture governance

Data architecture

Integrations

Security

Team leadership

CRM transformation

CTA

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or related field

Tools

Apex

LWC

Flow

OmniStudio

Platform Events

APIs

Job description

Focus Financial Partners is seeking a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) to serve as the senior technical authority for the Salesforce ecosystem. You will translate the CRM vision and platform roadmap into scalable, secure architectures across CRM, integrations, data, and enabling technologies.

You will lead architecture governance, mentor architects and developers, and own the target state architecture and technical roadmap while partnering with the Head of CRM on platform