Lead Technical Architect – Salesforce Platform in United States Embassy at Jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Technical Architect – Salesforce Platform based in United States.

This role offers the opportunity to provide strategic and hands-on technical leadership for a large-scale Salesforce ecosystem.
You will design scalable solutions, establish architecture standards, and guide teams in delivering secure and sustainable platform capabilities.
The position sits at the intersection of enterprise architecture, business transformation, and Salesforce innovation.
You will partner with business stakeholders, developers, administrators, and technology teams to shape the future of Salesforce solutions.
Your expertise will help modernize processes, improve platform governance, and enable business teams through powerful digital experiences.
This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced Salesforce architect who enjoys solving complex challenges and influencing enterprise technology strategy.

As a Lead Technical Architect – Salesforce Platform, you will provide architecture leadership, technical guidance, and governance across a complex Salesforce environment. You will balance strategic planning with hands-on expertise to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with business objectives.

• Define and maintain the Salesforce technical roadmap, architecture vision, and platform evolution strategy.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across Salesforce solutions, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Marketing capabilities, integrations, automation, reporting, and platform enhancements.
• Translate business requirements into scalable Salesforce architectures across configuration, Flow, Apex, Lightning Web Components, data models, security, and integrations.
• Establish and govern Salesforce architecture standards, design patterns, documentation practices, naming conventions, and development guidelines.
• Review technical designs, evaluate solution approaches, and ensure implementations are maintainable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Guide Salesforce administrators, developers, consultants, vendors, and distributed delivery teams through technical decisions and best practices.
• Design and support integrations between Salesforce and enterprise systems using APIs, middleware, event-driven architectures, and integration platforms.
• Strengthen DevOps and release management practices through improved deployment processes, environment management, and change governance.
• Identify technical debt, platform risks, and modernization opportunities while helping prioritize improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, delivery leaders, and QA teams to support predictable and high-quality solution delivery.
• Mentor technical teams and promote continuous improvement across Salesforce development and architecture practices.

The ideal candidate brings extensive Salesforce architecture experience, strong technical depth, and the ability to communicate complex solutions to both technical and business audiences. You should be comfortable leading enterprise initiatives, influencing stakeholders, and driving platform excellence.

• Significant experience as a Salesforce Technical Architect, Lead Salesforce Architect, or similar senior Salesforce architecture role within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in Salesforce platform architecture, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and related capabilities.
• Proven experience designing Salesforce solutions involving configuration, automation, Apex, Lightning Web Components, data architecture, security, reporting, and integrations.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce security models, including sharing rules, profiles, permission sets, roles, data quality, and platform performance considerations.
• Experience defining Salesforce governance frameworks, technical standards, and architecture best practices.
• Experience guiding administrators, developers, consultants, and external delivery partners.
• Knowledge of Salesforce DevOps practices, release management, deployment tools, and SDLC governance.
• Experience integrating Salesforce with enterprise applications through APIs, middleware, or event-driven integration patterns.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs in business terms.
• Ability to identify risks, manage technical debt, and support platform modernization efforts.
• Salesforce certifications such as Application Architect, System Architect, Technical Architect, Platform Developer, or Salesforce Consultant certifications are a plus.
• Experience with tools and technologies such as Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, Data Cloud, Tableau, Agentforce, MuleSoft, Copado, Gearset, Flosum, Azure DevOps, or Jira is beneficial.
• Experience in regulated industries such as insurance, financial services, or enterprise environments is preferred.

• Competitive base salary range of $124,700–$218,200 USD, depending on experience, skills, certifications, education, and location.
• Potential performance-based incentives.
• Fully remote work flexibility.
• Comprehensive health and welfare benefits.
• Retirement savings programs, including 401(k) options.
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities.
• Generous paid time off, including personal and volunteering time.
• Employee assistance programs and wellbeing resources.
• Stock purchase opportunities.
• Opportunities to contribute to impactful enterprise technology initiatives.