Principal Engineer / Salesforce Enterprise Architect

Job Overview:

• The Salesforce Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and advancing the Salesforce architecture strategy across the organization.
• This role serves as the highest technical authority for all Salesforce-related initiatives, ensuring that solutions are scalable, secure, performant, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
• As the key liaison between business stakeholders, Salesforce delivery teams, and IT leadership, this role plays a critical part in driving digital transformation, enhancing customer experience, and enabling data-driven decision-making across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architecture Strategy and Governance Lead the creation and maintenance of the enterprise-wide Salesforce architecture strategy and roadmap.
• Develop guiding principles, reference architectures, and blueprints that align Salesforce implementations with enterprise goals.
• Define architecture standards and governance frameworks to ensure consistency, maintainability, and reusability across projects and teams.
• Evaluate emerging Salesforce features, AppExchange solutions, and technologies—including Financial Services Cloud and Consumer Goods Cloud—for strategic fit.
• Solution Design and Oversight Partner with business and IT stakeholders to design end-to-end Salesforce solutions that support business objectives.
• Architect and review Salesforce implementations for multi-cloud (e.g., Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, CPQ, Marketing Cloud, Financial Services Cloud, Consumer Goods Cloud) and cross-functional programs.
• Design solutions that effectively balance customization with platform standardization and scalability.
• Integration and Data Architecture Define and oversee Salesforce integration patterns with enterprise systems such as ERP (e.g., SAP, Oracle), HCM, data lakes, and custom applications.
• Guide the design of APIs, middleware (e.g., MuleSoft), and ETL processes for secure and reliable data exchange.
• Own data modeling, governance, and quality strategies within the Salesforce platform.
• Security, Risk, and Compliance Architect secure solutions leveraging Salesforce Shield, Field Audit Trail, encryption, and event monitoring.
• Design single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) integrations using SAML, OAuth, or ADFS.
• Collaborate with security teams to conduct system risk assessments activities.
• Platform Management and DevOps Support the implementation of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release governance for Salesforce deployments.
• Champion DevOps tools such as Git, Copado, Gearset, Jenkins, and metadata management practices.
• Oversee Salesforce environment strategy, including sandbox management, refresh cadence, and data seeding.
• Leadership and Collaboration Serve as a trusted advisor to executive sponsors, product owners, architects, developers, and system admins.
• Lead and mentor teams of Salesforce developers, business analysts, and solution architects.
• Facilitate architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and architectural decision records (ADRs).
• Represent Salesforce architecture in enterprise architecture boards and digital transformation councils.

Qualifications

Must have skills: CPQ, Field Service Lightning, Sales cloud, Service cloud, Financial service cloud OR Consumer goods cloud