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Salesforce Architect

Key Facts

Remote From: 
Full time
Expert & Leadership (>10 years)
English

Other Skills

  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Problem Solving

Roles & Responsibilities

  • 10+ years of Salesforce experience with architecture-level responsibility
  • Hands-on development with Apex and Lightning Web Components (Apex, LWC) including code review
  • End-to-end Salesforce architecture design with LDV handling, governor limits, and scalability
  • Integration experience with MuleSoft or equivalent, REST/SOAP APIs, Platform Events, and Change Data Capture

Requirements:

  • Design and own end-to-end Salesforce solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards; lead high-level and low-level design discussions; translate business requirements into scalable technical blueprints
  • Drive architectural decisions such as Flow vs Apex vs LWC, Sync vs Async processing, and on-platform vs external processing; optimize for scalability and governor limits
  • Provide technical leadership: define coding standards, design patterns, best practices; lead teams and drive technical discussions; collaborate with developers, BAs, architects and IT SMEs to deliver solutions
  • Oversee integration and deployment patterns: design integration with Middleware (MuleSoft), REST/SOAP APIs, Platform Events, CDC; guide CI/CD and DevOps processes

Job description

This is a remote position.

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on Salesforce Architect with deep technical expertise and strong solutioning ability. The ideal candidate can design end-to-end Salesforce solutions, navigate platform limits, and lead technical decisions across complex, large-scale implementations. This is not a purely advisory role the candidate is expected to actively participate in hands-on coding (Apex, LWC) alongside the development team, lead by example, and contribute directly to solution delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Solutioning

Design and own end-to-end Salesforce solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

Lead high-level and low-level design discussions, translating business requirements into scalable technical blueprints.

Drive decisions on: Flow vs. Apex vs. LWC, Sync vs Async processing, On-platform vs external system processing.

Ensure solutions are optimised for scalability, performance, and Salesforce governor limits.

Strong knowledge of Apex design patterns, salesforce data model, security framework and declarative framework

Data & Security

Design robust data models custom objects, relationships, indexing strategies, and data archival.

Handle Large Data Volume (LDV) scenarios skinny tables, indexed fields, SOQL optimisation, archiving.

Implement and govern the Salesforce security model: Profiles, Permission Sets, Permission Set Groups, OWD, Sharing Rules, Field-Level Security.

 

Development & Technical Leadership

Work closely with IT CRM and business team to analyze requirements, design solutions and plan future releases.

Define and enforce coding standards, design patterns, and best practices across the team.

Ability to lead teams and drive technical discussions

Collaborate with Salesforce developers, Business analysts, Architects and IT SMEs to design and deliver solutions

Have knowledge of deployment using CI/CD pipelines in Devops process

Integration & Middleware

Design integration patterns using MuleSoft or equivalent middleware platforms.

Define API strategies — REST, SOAP, Platform Events, Change Data Capture.

Emerging Technologies (Good to Have)

Agentforce concepts like Topics, Sub-agents, and Prompt Design.

Prompt Builder for AI-powered flows.

Data Cloud: data ingestion, harmonisation, identity resolution.

External data patterns and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) in the Salesforce AI context.

Familiarity with RAG patterns and external data connectivity in AI contexts.

Experience with Einstein AI / Prompt Builder.

 

Required Skills & Experience


Area

Requirement

Salesforce Architecture

End-to-end solution design, LDV handling, limit-aware design

Apex & LWC

Strong hands-on coding — must write and review Apex & LWC code directly

Data Modeling

Objects, relationships, indexing, archival strategies

Security Model

Profiles, Permission Sets, Sharing Model, FLS

Async Processing

Queueable, Batch Apex, Future methods

Integration

MuleSoft or equivalent, REST/SOAP APIs, Platform Events, CDC

Agentforce

MUST HAVE — Hands-on working experience with Agentforce (Topics, Sub-agents, Prompt Design)

Data Cloud

MUST HAVE — Hands-on working experience with Salesforce Data Cloud (ingestion, harmonisation, identity resolution)

Problem Solving

Evaluate trade-offs and recommend optimal solutions

Communication

Clear articulation of decisions to business & technical stakeholders

Experience

10+ years in Salesforce with architecture-level responsibility

 

Mandatory Certifications

Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II

Salesforce Certified App Developer

Certifications Good to Have

Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA)

Salesforce Certified Application / System Architect

Salesforce Certified Integration Architect

Salesforce Certified Agentforce Specialist



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