Sr. Technical Architect, Salesforce Sales Cloud

POSITION SUMMARY

The Sr. Technical Architect Salesforce Sales Cloudis responsible for designing governing and evolving scalable Salesforce Sales Cloud solutions that deliver an intuitive efficient and secure experience for internal users and customers. This role partners closely with business stakeholders product managers and engineering teams to translate business requirements into robust Salesforce architectures while ensuring platform best practices performance security and compliance.

You will provide architectural leadership across complex Salesforce implementations guide development teams and drive long-term platform vision in a regulated enterprise environment.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely with enterprise and solution architecture teams to design and govern complex Salesforce Sales Cloud system architectures.

• Own and drive Salesforce technical design decisions including data models integrations security automation and scalability.

• Perform architectural and code reviews; mentor Salesforce developers on best practices patterns and standards.

• Partner with business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into scalable reliable and maintainable Salesforce solutions.

• Design build and maintain Salesforce Sales Cloud capabilities including Leads Accounts Contacts Opportunities Forecasting CPQ (if applicable) and reporting.

• Architect and oversee integrations between Salesforce and external systems using APIs middleware and event-driven patterns.

• Ensure Salesforce implementations meet enterprise security compliance and governance standards.

• Continuously improve Salesforce development processes deployment practices and architectural standards.

• Contribute to end-to-end execution of compliance initiatives including audit readiness and platform controls.

• Support ongoing enhancements platform optimization and technical debt reduction across existing Salesforce components.

• Act as a technical escalation point and trusted advisor for Salesforce-related architecture decisions.

COMPLIANCE & SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES

• This role works with PHI on a regular basis both in paper and electronic form and accesses systems that store or process PHI.

• Must complete HIPAA/PHI privacy training General Policies and Procedures Compliance training and security training within the first 30 days of hire.

• Must maintain current status on all required Natera compliance and security training.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or equivalent practical experience.

• 7 years of overall IT or application development experience with 5 years of Salesforce platform experience.

• Strong hands-on experience with Salesforce Sales Cloud architecture and implementation.

• Experience designing and governing large-scale enterprise Salesforce implementations.

• Proven experience with Salesforce security model including profiles permission sets role hierarchy sharing rules and field-level security.

• Experience with Salesforce declarative and programmatic capabilities including Flows Apex Lightning Web Components (LWC) and SOQL.

• Experience integrating Salesforce with external systems using REST/SOAP APIs middleware and event-driven architectures.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and integration patterns.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Salesforce DevOps tools (e.g. Git Salesforce DX Copado Gearset or equivalent).

• Strong understanding of data modeling relational concepts and data quality strategies.

• Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments is strongly preferred.

• Salesforce certifications preferred (e.g. Sales Cloud Consultant Application Architect System Architect).

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Salesforce Sales Cloud Architecture

• Apex Lightning Web Components (LWC) SOQL

• Salesforce Security & Governance

• REST APIs and Integration Architecture

• Event-Driven and Asynchronous Processing

• Salesforce CI/CD and DevOps Practices

• Data Modeling and Reporting

• Cloud and Enterprise Integration Patterns

• Strong analytical problem-solving and design skills

• Excellent communication presentation and stakeholder facilitation abilities

• Quality-first and compliance-oriented mindset

OUR OPPORTUNITY

Natera is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing dedicated to oncology womens health and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer healthier lives.

The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians geneticists doctors laboratory scientists business professionals software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera youll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry youll be stretched and challenged and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical dental vision life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave 401k benefits commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!

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Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment and welcome people of different backgrounds experiences abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees our community and our patients and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will be considered without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics age veteran status disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with applicable laws.

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