Tommy Bahama

Senior Salesforce Technical Architect

Tommy Bahama$130K — $155K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Four-year college degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field required.
  • Eight or more years of Salesforce platform experience; at least two years in a senior technical role.
  • Hands-on experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement and Salesforce Core, particularly in Service Cloud processes.
  • Experience designing enterprise Salesforce integrations, specifically with MuleSoft or similar platforms.
  • Proven expertise in Journey Builder, Automation Studio, Data Extensions, and marketing data troubleshooting.
  • Familiarity with Salesforce data models, Flow, Apex, APIs, and security configurations.
  • Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues across Salesforce and connected systems.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical architecture across Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Service Cloud, and Loyalty Management.
  • Define data movement between Salesforce and external systems like MuleSoft and Snowflake.
  • Maintain architecture diagrams, data flows, and technical documentation.
  • Identify technical debt and ensure solutions are scalable and secure.
  • Provide technical leadership for Marketing Cloud and its various components.
  • Support case management and process automation in Salesforce Core CRM.
  • Lead the integration and support of Salesforce systems with external applications.

Benefits

  • Mentorship and development opportunities for internal team members.
  • Extensive technical leadership role with hands-on involvement in solutions.
  • Opportunity to work with a wide array of integrated systems and technologies.
  • Access to complex problem-solving across multiple platforms and environments.
Full Job Description

Job Description

About the Position

The Senior Salesforce Technical Architect - Marketing Cloud, Service & Loyalty is a hands-on, cross-cloud technical leader responsible for the architecture, stability, security, and supportability of Lilly Pulitzer's Salesforce ecosystem. This role owns the end-to-end technical design across Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement and Salesforce Core, including Service Cloud, Loyalty Management,Agentforceand Voice capabilities, Data Cloud/Data 360, and integrations with MuleSoft, commerce, point-of-sale, Snowflake, and other enterprise systems. The architect combines strategic architecture with hands-on delivery, production support, break-fix troubleshooting, release review, and ongoing platform improvements. The role serves as the in-house Salesforce subject matter expert, mentors internal team members, andmaintainsinternal ownership and oversight of work delivered by outside partners. Success is reflected in faster issue resolution, more stable and supportable solutions, stronger documentation, fewer recurring failures, and increased independence of the internal Salesforce team.

A day inthe life...

Cross-Cloud Architecture

  • Own the end-to-end technical architecture across Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement and Salesforce Core, ensuring solutions work cohesively across Marketing Cloud, Service Cloud, Loyalty Management,Agentforce, Salesforce Voice, Data Cloud/Data 360, and connected systems.

  • Define how customer, order, service, loyalty, consent, and marketing data move among Salesforce and MuleSoft, commerce, point-of-sale, Snowflake, and other enterprise systems.

  • Maintain current architecture diagrams, system and data flows,integrationinventories, technical standards, support procedures, and solution documentation.

  • Identifytechnical debt, platform risks, security concerns, and opportunities to simplify or improve the environment; ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and supportable.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement

  • Provide hands-on technical leadership for Journey Builder, Automation Studio, Contact Builder, Email Studio, Mobile Studio and SMS, Data Extensions, subscriber data, SQL, segmentation, and triggered or transactional communications.

  • Design and support Marketing Cloud Connect, APIs, SFTP and file transfers, imports and exports, and contact-key and subscriber-key strategies.

  • Guideconsent, subscription, preference-management, data-retention, archival, and contact-count practices.

  • Troubleshoot journeys, automations, data movement, and integrations, and ensure data entering Marketing Cloud is complete,accurate,timely, and connected to the correct Salesforce customer records.

Salesforce Platform and Service Cloud

  • Provide architecture and hands-on support for Salesforce Core CRM, Service Cloud, case management, Omni-Channel routing, messaging, chat, SMS, Knowledge, and Flow and process automation.

  • Support customer, contact, account, order, and interaction data, along with security, roles, permission sets, sharing, and access controls.

  • Review, configure, or support Apex, Lightning components, APIs, custom development, and production troubleshooting, includingAgentforcecapabilities used by customer-service teams.

  • Ensure customer-service representatives have reliable access to the customer, order, loyalty, andinteractioninformation needed to support customers.

Loyalty Management

  • Provide technical leadership for loyalty programs and memberships, enrollment and account relationships,tiersand tier assessments, qualifying and non-qualifying currencies,pointsearning and redemption, and member benefits.

  • Support promotions and loyalty rules, rewards, vouchers, coupons, offers, and transaction journals.

  • Support birthday, anniversary,annual-gift, surprise-offer, and other event-driven processes, including integrations with commerce, point-of-sale, Marketing Cloud, and customer service.

  • Monitor loyalty data reconciliation and lead production support when loyalty activity does not process correctly across stores, ecommerce, customer service, Marketing Cloud, or Salesforce.

Agentforceand Voice

  • Provide architecture and technical support forAgentforcefor Service,AgentforceVoice, Salesforce Voice, and related telephony integrations.

  • Support contact-center routing and agent workflows, voice transcription and call records, Omni-Channel integration, agent-assist capabilities, knowledge recommendations, automated and AI-supported interactions, and escalation to live agents.

  • Establish monitoring and troubleshooting practices that keep voice and AI-enabled service capabilities reliable and supportable.

Integrations and Production Support

  • Own and support integrations between Salesforce and external systems using MuleSoft, REST and SOAP APIs, platform events, scheduled and batch jobs, SFTP processes, and middleware connections.

  • Quicklydeterminewhether an issue originates in Salesforce, Marketing Cloud, MuleSoft, commerce, point-of-sale, Snowflake, or another connected system.

  • Lead the technical response when an integration failure affects customer service, loyalty, marketing, or core customer data; review logs, integration errors, failed automations, API activity, and data-processing results.

  • Define monitoring, alerting, error-handling, and recovery standards, and coordinate with internal teams and outside partners until production issues are resolved.

  • Participate in an appropriateproduction-supportand escalation rotation.

  • Maintain platform stability through break-fix work, integration changes, release reviews, security and API updates, and ongoing technical improvements, even when major new development is limited.

Hands-On Technical Delivery

  • Configure and prototype Salesforce solutions and build ormodifyFlows, automations, data mappings, SQL queries, and integrations when needed.

  • Review Apex, Lightning components, Marketing Cloud scripts, APIs, and vendor-delivered code and configurations.

  • Create proofs of concept for complex or high-risk solutions and support testing, release planning, deployment, and post-production validation.

  • Review technical designs before development begins, step directly into delivery or troubleshooting when senior technical support isneeded, andkeep technical documentation current.

Technical Leadership and Team Development

  • Serve as the in-house Salesforce subject matter expert andprovideday-to-day guidance to Salesforce administrators, developers, analysts, product owners, and technology partners.

  • Mentor internal team members whoare developingskills across Salesforce Core and Marketing Cloud; pair with them during troubleshooting, configuration, development, and solution design.

  • Explain technical concepts inclear languageand collaborate effectively with business partners, developers, administrators, vendors, and technology leadership.

  • Establish Salesforce development, configuration, integration, security, and documentation standards and conduct architecture, design, and code reviews.

  • Build andretainenough internal knowledge to reduce long-term dependence on outside consulting partners for routine architecture, troubleshooting, and production support.

Qualifications for the Position

Required Qualifications

  • A four-year college degree isrequired, preferably in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field.

  • Eight or more years of Salesforce platform experience, including at leasttwoyears serving as a Salesforce Architect, Technical Lead, or equivalent senior technical role.

  • Hands-on experience with both Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement and Salesforce Core, with strong experience in Service Cloud andcustomer-serviceprocesses.

  • Experience designing, building, and supporting enterprise Salesforce integrations, including MuleSoft or a comparable enterprise integration platform.

  • Hands-on experience with Journey Builder, Automation Studio, Contact Builder, Data Extensions, SQL, Marketing Cloud APIs, and marketing data and automation troubleshooting.

  • Experience with Salesforce data models, Flow, Apex, APIs, security,permissioning, sharing, and platform configuration.

  • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot production issues across multiple Salesforce products and external systems.

  • Strong understanding of REST and SOAP APIs, event-driven integrations, batch processing, middleware, and file-based integrations.

  • Experience with source control, release management, testing, deployment, and post-production validation practices for Salesforce.

  • Ability to balance long-term architectural direction with immediateproduction-supportand break-fix needs.

  • Ability to quicklylearna complex existing environment, work through incomplete documentation, and independentlydeterminehow configurations, integrations, and data flowsoperate.<

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