Salesforce Solution Architect
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Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Salesforce Solution Architect role involves leading the design and implementation of Salesforce solutions, leveraging extensive experience in Salesforce architecture and functional consulting. The position requires strong communication skills to engage with both business and technical stakeholders, as well as proficiency in various Salesforce clouds and core platform capabilities. The role is remote and offers a contract duration of 6 months with potential for extension. Candidates should possess a client-facing presence and the ability to drive consensus through workshops.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and implementation of Salesforce solutions.
- Assess existing organizations to identify design, scalability, and governance gaps.
- Write user stories and acceptance criteria, working within Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Facilitate workshops and present to business and technical stakeholders.
- Utilize core platform capabilities including data modeling, security, automation, and integration concepts.
Key Skills:
- 8-12+ years in Salesforce solution architecture or senior functional consulting roles.
- Experience across at least two Salesforce clouds (Sales, Service, Experience).
- Strong command of data modeling, security/sharing, automation, reporting/analytics, and integration concepts.
- Proficiency in writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
- Salesforce Certifications: Application Architect (or in progress), Administrator, Platform App Builder.
- Hands-on configuration experience with Flows, Page Layouts, and Validation Rules.
- Experience with integration/middleware and release management practices.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Position: Salesforce Solution Architect
Location: Remote
Job Type: 6 month+ can be extendable
Required Qualifications:
8 12+ years in Salesforce solution architecture or senior functional consulting roles
Proven experience across at least two Salesforce clouds (e.g., Sales, Service, Experience).
Strong command of core platform capabilities: data modeling, security/sharing, automation (Flows), reporting/analytics, and integration concepts (APIs, middleware patterns).
Demonstrated ability to assess existing orgs and identify design, scalability, and governance gaps.
Proficiency in writing user stories and acceptance criteria; experience working in Agile/Scrum.
Excellent communication and facilitation skills; confident presenting to business and technical stakeholders.
Strong client-facing presence with the ability to lead workshops and drive consensus.
Preferred Qualifications:
Salesforce Certifications: Application Architect (or in progress), Administrator, Platform App Builder; additional cloud-specific certs (Sales, Service, Experience) are a plus.
Tooling: JIRA, Confluence, Lucidchart/Visio, Miro; familiarity with Data Loader and Salesforce Data Cloud a plus.
Hands-on configuration experience with Flows, Page Layouts, Dynamic Forms, Validation Rules, and Permission Sets.
Experience with integration/middleware (e.g., MuleSoft, REST/SOAP patterns) and release management practices (Sandboxes, Change Sets/DevOps tooling).
Background in advisory/consulting with roadmap development, business case definition, and change management