Senior Salesforce Platform Architect

Sharp Decisions; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp Decisions is seeking a Senior Salesforce Developer to own end-to-end engineering, support, and modernization of a large-scale Salesforce platform across enterprise programs. This role ensures security, stability, and governance while leading major technical initiatives.

You will drive integrations, improve workflows, and build internal capacity through structured training and documentation to support mission-critical systems.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on Salesforce expertise with architectural thinking.
• Experience with end-to-end Salesforce development and deployment.
• Strong knowledge of security and governance in SDLC.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert-level troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and resolution of platform issues across Salesforce core, Experience Cloud, integrations, and custom components.
• Develop features using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, permission models, and data structures.
• Lead code reviews, enforce secure coding standards, and ensure high test coverage and adherence to best practices.
• Own and manage multi-environment release cycles (Dev, QA, UAT, Staging, Prod) using CI/CD pipelines and version control.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, maintainable, and compliant technical solutions.
• Design, support, and optimize API-based integrations, including MuleSoft or similar middleware frameworks.
• Ensure reliable and secure data exchange between Salesforce and external systems involved in reporting, surveillance, analytics, and operational workflows.
• Monitor API health, throughput, rate limits, and error handling; implement resilience patterns such as retries, queueing, and payload optimization.
• Maintain integration mapping documentation, interface specifications, and versioning strategies.
• Maintain sandbox strategy, refresh cadence, and environment alignment across the development lifecycle.
• Implement advanced monitoring, alerting, observability dashboards, and performance analytics.
• Support platform continuity through backup/restore strategies, DR planning, and failover procedure validation.
• Conduct periodic platform health reviews and provide recommendations for stability, scalability, and long-term optimization.
• Develop structured training programs for internal teams covering administration, configuration, development, and troubleshooting.
• Create durable documentation including architecture diagrams, workflow maps, deployment guides, operational procedures, and technical standards.
• Mentor internal staff to ensure sustainable long-term support and enhance overall organizational Salesforce capability.
• Facilitate post-implementation ownership transition and ensure internal teams can independently manage ongoing enhancements.
• Maintain expert-level understanding of Salesforce license structures, including core licenses, Experience Cloud, API usage entitlements, feature tiers, and cost impacts.

Skills

Salesforce expertise

Apex development

LWC development

CI/CD pipelines

API integrations

Security governance

Architectural thinking

MuleSoft

Tools

MuleSoft

Job description

Sharp Decisions is seeking a Senior Salesforce Developer to own end-to-end engineering, support, and modernization of a large-scale Salesforce platform across enterprise programs. This role ensures security, stability, and governance while leading major technical initiatives.

You will drive integrations, improve workflows, and build internal capacity through structured training and documentation to support mission-critical systems.