Salesforce

Senior Salesforce Technical Architect

Salesforce$172K — $260K *
Tempe, AZ 85281In-Person
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of enterprise architecture or consulting experience
  • 4+ years leading Salesforce Core Projects
  • Strong application design and security architecture skills
  • Excellent presentation skills for diverse audiences
  • Detail-oriented with quick learning ability
  • Proficient verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong analytical and business process optimization capabilities
  • Innovative thinker with problem-solving skills
  • Proficient in integration concepts and designs

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to the client
  • Lead internal strategic initiatives for consulting practice growth
  • Guide customers in deploying emerging technologies for business value
  • Communicate complex concepts with clarity; teach and inspire
  • Proactively manage risks and resolve issues
  • Negotiate solutions to complex customer problems with stakeholders
  • Review project direction and ensure maintainability of solutions
  • Collaborate with Delivery Managers and Solution Architects to meet client needs
  • Articulate program strategies using Salesforce Platform

Benefits

  • Comprehensive employee support programs
  • Access to AI tools to enhance productivity
  • Opportunities for career growth and development
  • Balanced work-life environment
  • Inclusive workplace culture promoting teamwork
Full Job Description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Customer Success

Job Details

The Professional Services organization is focused on delivering Salesforce's world-class product and project offerings to ensure customers are getting the most out of the Salesforce Platform. We help customers accelerate their path to value with Salesforce, focused on making sure you’re set up for long-term success to tap into the full capacity of the Salesforce platform, fast. We help you plan your strategic roadmap and we make sure you are building Salesforce so that it’s easy to maintain and adapt down the road, minimizing potential technical debt.

Our team is made up of thousands of the world’s leading Salesforce experts. We share our own 20 years of product best practices with your team and partners so that you have everything you need to achieve your goals.

Salesforce Professional Services is looking for a Senior Technical Architect. You will be serving as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform expert to the company’s largest, most complex enterprise customers. Here are some salient responsibilities the role entails:

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to the client

  • Identify and lead internal strategic initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serving as an active contributor to the community’s overall knowledge base and expertise

  • Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value

  • Work collaboratively and having very strong communications skills, especially in teaching complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking

  • Identify and proactively manage risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution

  • Manage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party partners

  • Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forward

  • Work closely with Delivery Managers, Solution Architects, and directly with clients to architect technology solutions to meet client needs

  • Contribute to a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies on enabling technologies including the Salesforce Platform


Minimum Requirements:

  • 8+ years enterprise architecture or consulting experience

  • 4+ years of experience leading Salesforce Core Projects

  • Strong application design skills combined with strong data, integration, and security architecture skills

  • Strong presentation skills. Able to effectively present and defend a point of view to a variety of audiences

  • Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies

  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience

  • A great listener with the ability to communicate with people in diverse roles

  • Proven ability to analyze, design, and optimize business processes via technology and integration

  • Resourceful and innovative thinker who can work through and solve problems

  • Strong experience in Integration concepts, designs and patterns


Required Qualities:

  • TRUST: Trusts the company’s core values; shows integrity, transparency, and reliability

  • TEAM PLAYER: Proficient at collaboration and working with members of a team

  • COMMUNICATOR: Speaks and writes with clarity, brevity, and purpose; explains the area of expertise clearly and confidently to others; influences and engages C-Level with authority and confidence


Preferred Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or a related quantitative discipline. Equivalent demonstrable work experience in lieu of a degree will be considered

  • Ability to convey and convince customers of best practices at various levels within a large organization

  • Application design and development background

  • Travel may be required and varies depending on the client requirements

  • Strong Enterprise Architecture background would be favorable

  • Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) or multiple Salesforce Architecture certifications

  • Experience in Consumer Goods Cloud, Consumer Goods Retail Execution / Trade Promotion Management, and general Consumer Goods industry is a plus


Preferred Qualities:

  • LEADERSHIP: Self-aware; proficient at building strong relationships

  • THOUGHT LEADER: Strong point of view and executive presence. Confident, but not arrogant, a great storyteller.

  • Experience with AI-powered development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Agentforce for Developers) and an understanding of their strengths and limitations.

  • Experience leading a technical team or workstream, with a passion for mentoring and developing talent.

  • Ability to build and maintain key relationships with C-level executives, senior technology leaders, and key decision-makers.

  • Experience defining and delivering enterprise applications on the Salesforce Platform is a strong plus.

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