Principal Salesforce Architect

Client is located in New York area, They Prefer someone from EST/CST.

Communication skills needs to be excellent stakeholder mgmt exp needed

AWS and Snowflake experience required

NOTE - The biggest difference is that we need someone who can help completely reimagine the Salesforce environment and help take it to the next level. Instead of focusing on incremental architecture (based on submitted tickets and sprints), we re looking for someone who can lead the charge on overall environment transformation/refactoring.

We do have a special consultancy firm (Qvest) coming in to assess our Salesforce instance, and they re going to provide a complete readout with recommendations for our environment. This Principal Architect role will partner with Qvest in the assessment, listen and refine the recommendations, and lead the subsequent effort to implement the recommendations (which could include a full burndown/rebuild).

Key Responsibilities
Define and own the enterprise Salesforce architectural roadmap, ensuring alignment with
business strategy, AI initiatives, and cloud modernization efforts.
Architect and oversee delivery of complex, multi-cloud Salesforce solutions, including
integrations with AWS, Microsoft Copilot, and enterprise middleware.
Provide technical leadership across programs, mentoring senior engineers and guiding
offshore development teams with architectural best practices.
Lead and govern solution design reviews, ensuring scalability, performance, maintainability,
and data/security compliance.
Serve as the final authority for Salesforce integration patterns, API strategy, and enterprise
data flow design.
Drive standardization and adoption of CI/CD, DevOps, test automation, and release
governance across all Salesforce teams.
Conduct deep architectural assessments, identify system-wide risks, and establish mitigation
frameworks.
Establish reference architectures, coding standards, and reusable components to accelerate
delivery.
Partner with executive stakeholders, product leaders, and engineering teams to translate
business strategy into actionable architectural blueprints.
Influence platform decisions across business groups, ensuring Salesforce capabilities are
leveraged optimally and cohesively.

Required Qualifications
10+ years architecting and delivering large-scale end-to-end Salesforce implementations
(Sales Cloud required; multi-cloud preferred).
Demonstrated mastery of Salesforce architecture, including Apex, Visualforce, LWC, Aura,
JavaScript, and modern frameworks (React/Angular).
Deep expertise in API design (SOAP/REST), enterprise integration patterns, and tools such
as Kafka, AWS, Informatica, Tibco, Snowflake, etc.
Strong capability to integrate Microsoft Copilot and AI technologies with Salesforce; ability
to bridge AI + CRM architecture at scale.
Proven experience driving technical design sessions, influencing stakeholders, and
communicating architecture to Cyber, exec, business, and engineering audiences.
Strong background in TDD, SOQL, performance troubleshooting, and front-end debugging
(Chrome DevTools).
Advanced knowledge of release management, Git-based development workflows, CI/CD
pipelines, and Metadata API deployment strategies.
Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams and establishing technical
governance structures.

Preferred Qualifications
Background in Product, Data Engineering, Data Modeling, and Business
Intelligence (TableauCRM, Datorama, MicroStrategy, Data Cloud).
Experience with AWS architecture and cloud-native services.
Domain knowledge in Advertising Sales, Media, and Entertainment.
Strategic understanding of enterprise security, including SSO, OAuth, data security, and
compliance frameworks.