Salesforce Solution Architect

The Senior Salesforce Solution Architect is responsible for designing, delivering, and governing Salesforce solutions that align with business objectives and enterprise architecture standards. This role serves as a key liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, high-performing, and maintainable across the Salesforce platform., Solution Architecture

• Design end-to-end Salesforce solutions across Energy & Utility Cloud, Experience Cloud, and integrated enterprise platforms.
• Define solution architecture, data models, integration patterns, and non-functional requirements.
• Ensure designs align with Salesforce best practices and enterprise architecture standards.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with business analysts, product owners, project managers, and business leaders to understand requirements and define solution approaches.
• Translate business needs into clear technical designs and implementation plans.

Integration and Technical Leadership

• Lead architecture for integrations between Salesforce and external systems, including APIs, middleware, and data platforms.
• Provide technical guidance on Apex, Lightning, Visualforce, Flow, and platform design patterns.
• Support development teams through design reviews, code reviews, and architecture governance.

Platform Governance

• Establish and maintain standards for design, development, security, release management, and environment strategy.
• Evaluate Salesforce products, AppExchange solutions, and third-party tools against business and architectural requirements.

Security, Performance, and Scalability

• Design role-based access, sharing models, and data protection controls.
• Ensure solutions meet performance, reliability, and compliance expectations.

Documentation and Mentoring

• Maintain architecture documentation, solution diagrams, and technical specifications.
• Mentor developers, administrators, and junior architects on Salesforce best practices.

Delivery Support

• Contribute to planning, estimation, risk assessment, and major design decisions across the delivery lifecycle.
• Support solution delivery from requirements through deployment and post-go-live stabilization.

Salesforce platform expertise: Energy & Utility Cloud, Experience Cloud. Strong understanding of Apex, Lightning Components, Visualforce, Flows, REST/SOAP APIs. Integration patterns: middleware (MuleSoft, Dell Boomi, Informatica), ETL tools, web services. Data modeling, architecture design, and governance principles. Experience with CI/CD, version control, and release management. Knowledge of Salesforce best practices, security, compliance, and performance optimization. Soft Skills:

Excellent communication skills, able to translate technical concepts to business stakeholders. Strong problem-solving and analytical skills. Leadership and mentoring capability. Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and competing priorities., * 10+ years of Salesforce experience, including 6+ years in solution architecture or technical leadership roles.

• Experience designing and delivering Salesforce solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with Salesforce platform capabilities, including Energy & Utility Cloud and Experience Cloud.
• Strong understanding of Apex, Lightning, Visualforce, Flow, and REST/SOAP APIs.
• Experience with integration patterns, middleware platforms, ETL, and enterprise data architecture.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, version control, release management, platform security, and performance optimization.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Utility industry experience.
• Salesforce Application Architect or System Architect certification.
• Salesforce Integration Architecture Designer certification.
• Salesforce Platform Developer I or II certification.
• Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) is a plus.