SALESFORCE SENIOR SOLUTION ARCHITECT
Location: Remote role (Must be located near one of these locations: Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, NY, Boston, Denver, or Houston) + 20% travel to Chicago, IL
Pay Rate: $80/hr - $105/hr
Contract Duration: 2 month+ project
Summary: Our client is seeking an experienced Salesforce Senior Solution Architect to design, enhance, and deliver enterprise Salesforce solutions across Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, and CPQ. This hands-on leadership role requires deep Salesforce architecture expertise, enterprise integration experience, and the ability to collaborate with distributed technical teams. The ideal candidate will drive scalable solutions, platform modernization, and AI-assisted development within a complex Salesforce environment.
Description – Salesforce Senior Solution Architect:
- Lead architecture, design, and hands-on delivery of Salesforce solutions, extending existing Case management capabilities to new teams while maintaining current functionality.
- Design and enhance Service Cloud capabilities, including Case intake, queue-based routing, entitlements, milestones, SLAs, business hours, holidays, and escalations.
- Develop operational reports and dashboards to monitor service performance, workload, and business outcomes.
- Deliver configuration-first enhancements across Sales Cloud and Salesforce CPQ, incorporating custom development as needed.
- Design and oversee integrations between Salesforce and enterprise platforms, including NetSuite, Certinia, MuleSoft, and Snowflake.
- Establish and maintain Salesforce architecture standards, data model governance, security, and technical debt management within a consolidated Salesforce org.
- Provide technical leadership to India-based engineering teams while remaining hands-on with development, solution reviews, and troubleshooting.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, documentation, testing, and solution quality.
- Collaborate with client stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable Salesforce solutions.
- Support Agile delivery processes, release management, and continuous platform improvements.
Qualifications – Salesforce Senior Solution Architect:
- 10+ years of IT experience, including at least 5 years of Salesforce architecture and development experience.
- Deep Salesforce Service Cloud expertise, including Case management, routing, queues, entitlements, milestones, SLAs, business hours, holidays, and escalations.
- Strong hands-on experience with Salesforce Sales Cloud and CPQ, including partner/reseller sales processes and professional services quoting.
- Proficiency in Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Salesforce APIs, and legacy Visualforce.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce security, data modeling, integration architecture, and API-led integrations using MuleSoft.
- Experience integrating Salesforce with enterprise platforms such as NetSuite, Certinia, and Snowflake.
- Experience managing complex Salesforce environments, including architecture governance, org consolidation, technical debt, and release processes.
- Strong Salesforce DevOps and CI/CD experience, including Copado, Copado CLI, GitHub, branching strategies, and pull requests.
- Experience with Salesforce CLI (SF CLI), VS Code, and AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Devin.
- Knowledge of Salesforce second-generation packaging (2GP) and unlocked packages.
- Experience using Jira, Confluence, and familiarity with Datadog and Loom.
- Experience working in Agile environments with distributed onshore and India-based technical teams.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and client-facing presentation skills.
- Ability to accommodate partial overlap with India working hours.
- Salesforce Application Architect or System Architect certification required.
- Salesforce Service Cloud Consultant or Salesforce CPQ Specialist certification preferred.
- Experience with Salesforce Billing, multi-cloud implementations, and Salesforce modernization initiatives preferred.
- Familiarity with Nintex Drawloop, Salesforce AI capabilities, and enterprise data-platform integrations is a plus.
Benefits:
- Location: Remote role (Must be located near one of these locations: Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, NY, Boston, Denver, or Houston) + 20% travel
- 401(k), Health, dental, vision, and life insurance options
- Pay range: $80/hr - $105/hr