Principal Architect, Solution Architecture

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Position Summary

The Senior Architect serves as the embedded delivery architect supporting the assigned Salesforce delivery team. This role translates domain architecture direction enterprise standards and architectural guardrails into project-level solution designs and executable delivery plans.

The Architect maintains architecture continuity throughout the delivery lifecyclefrom discovery and solution design through technical decomposition implementation decisions delivery assurance and production readiness. The role partners closely with the Principal Architect product and engineering leaders technical leads developers business analysts and other architects to ensure that solutions are scalable secure supportable and aligned with the long-term Salesforce strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate domain strategy target architecture standards and guardrails established by the Principal Architect into project-level solution architecture.
• Lead solution design for initiatives delivered by the assigned delivery team including architecture diagrams technical approaches integration considerations data considerations security requirements and non-functional requirements.
• Decompose large architecture solutions into sequenced workable technical deliverables with clear boundaries dependencies implementation approaches and ownership.
• Work with Product Owners Business Analysts Engineering Leads and Technical Leads to translate architecture into Jira epics technical enablers stories and implementation milestones.
• Determine the appropriate size sequence and working order of technical deliverables so Technical Leads can take ownership of clearly defined implementation work.
• Maintain architecture involvement throughout implementation and close gaps between approved solution designs and the realities discovered during delivery.
• Guide in-flight technical decisions including configuration versus custom development low-code versus pro-code approaches integration patterns data design security design and other implementation-level choices.
• Review detailed designs and implementation outcomes to ensure alignment with architectural intent and approved standards.
• Document significant architecture decisions assumptions dependencies risks and deviations.
• Identify architecture risks technical debt cross-team dependencies and non-functional concerns early in the delivery lifecycle.
• Recommend remediation when implementations deviate from approved architecture or create unacceptable platform risk.
• Escalate cross-domain decisions material exceptions and enterprise-level concerns to the Principal Architect or appropriate architecture governance forum.
• Provide architecture guidance and coaching to Technical Leads developers and other delivery team members.
• Contribute reusable patterns lessons learned and delivery feedback to the Salesforce architecture community and Center of Excellence.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or a related field or equivalent professional experience.
• Eight or more years of enterprise technology experience including significant experience delivering solutions on the Salesforce platform.
• Demonstrated experience performing solution or delivery architecture responsibilities within complex enterprise programs.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce solution design configuration custom development integration data security and application lifecycle considerations.
• Experience translating high-level architecture into executable technical work packages and delivery backlogs.
• Ability to make pragmatic technical decisions while maintaining alignment with long-term architecture.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments and with tools such as Jira.
• Strong analytical problem-solving documentation and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across global cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce architect-level or advanced technical certifications.
• Experience supporting large-scale multi-team Salesforce environments.
• Experience operating within formal architecture governance and design-review processes.
• Experience working in regulated highly integrated or globally distributed enterprise environments.

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