Solution Architect / Senior Solution Architect - Missionforce (Cleared)

Salesforce; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce Professional Services is seeking Solution Architects to join the Missionforce team. You will provide architectural leadership across large engagements and partner with executives and delivery teams to co-create solution visions for complex Defense & National Security projects.

The role drives architecture strategy from initial solutioning through execution, ensuring mission-critical programs deliver measurable outcomes while upholding best practices and fostering a high-performance

Qualifications

• 8+ years in enterprise architecture or consulting on Salesforce Platform throughout the whole life cycle.
• Active Secret, TS or TS/SCI clearance required.
• Expert in Salesforce configuration and architectural strategy.
• Experience documenting business processes and designs using UML / sequence diagrams.
• Strong communication and presentation skills; able to teach complex concepts.
• Listener and proactive problem solver with stakeholder empathy.

Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted advisor to the client and executives.
• Lead internal initiatives to grow the consulting practice.
• Guide customers in deploying emerging technologies to drive business value.
• Collaborate across teams with strong communication and prescriptive thinking.
• Identify and manage risk; drive issue resolution.
• Negotiate solutions with customers and partners.
• Review project direction to keep programs on track and scalable.
• Drive program vision and enable Salesforce technologies.

Skills

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Prescriptive thinking

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree or equivalent relevant experience

Tools

Salesforce Platform

UML

Job description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Customer Success

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Salesforce Professional Services is hiring Solution Architects to join the Missionforce team. As a Solution Architect, you will provide steady architectural leadership across large and complex engagements and partner with executive and delivery stakeholders to co-create and execute solution visions for our most complex customers in the Defense & National Security space. The Solution Architect serves as a hands-on advisor combining Salesforce platform expertise, industry knowledge, and consulting acumen to design and deliver scalable, mission-aligned solutions.

The Solution Architect / Senior Solution Architect is a dual-impact leader across presales and delivery, responsible for shaping, scoping, and aligning complex engagements to position federal customers for long-term success as a trusted advisor. This role drives architectural strategy from initial solutioning through execution, ensuring mission-critical programs are set up to deliver measurable outcomes. They provide and are accountable for architectural integrity, executive alignment, and elevate solution quality while cultivating a high-performance culture across the team. As stewards of the Professional Services Methodology, they leverage cross-functional networks to enforce best practices, scale delivery excellence, and ensure consistency across MissionForce engagements.

Your Impact

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the client
• Identify and lead internal strategic initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serve as an active contributor to the community's overall knowledge base and expertise
• Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value
• Work collaboratively and having very strong communications skills, especially in teaching complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking across various levels of a client organization
• Identify and proactively manage risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution
• Manage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party partners
• Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forward
• Drive a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies to enable technologies including the Salesforce platform

Minimum Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture or consulting experience on the Salesforce Platform throughout the whole life cycle with repeated and demonstrable success.
• Clearance. Active Secret, TS or TS/SCI (a must).
• Expert in Salesforce configuration and architectural strategy, translating current-state complexity into clear target-state designs, closing capability gaps, and delivering solutions that enable achievement of critical business and mission outcomes.
• Experience leading discovery sessions, defining business requirements, writing user stories and providing detailed system and functional designs
• Experience in documenting business processes and wire-framing system designs using process flow diagram tools, UML, sequence diagrams, etc. as well as making recommendations for future state improved processes and system designs
• Strong presentation skills; able to effectively present a point of view and clearly articulate the rationale to a variety of stakeholders
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience
• A great listener with the ability to connect with people in diverse roles
• Resourceful and innovative thinker who can work through and solve problems .

Preferred Requirements

• Must be Metro DC located
• Multiple Salesforce Core Architecture certifications
• Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
• Experience in public sector digital transformation initiatives
• Hands-on experience with Public Sector Solutions ("Agentforce Pu