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 neededAWS and Snowflake experience requiredNOTE -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 ResponsibilitiesDefine and own the enterprise Salesforce architectural roadmap, ensuring alignment withbusiness strategy, AI initiatives, and cloud modernization efforts.Architect and oversee delivery of complex, multi-cloud Salesforce solutions, includingintegrations with AWS, bolthires Copilot, and enterprise middleware. Provide technical leadership across programs, mentoring senior engineers and guidingoffshore 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 enterprisedata flow design.Drive standardization and adoption of bolthires/CD, DevOps, test automation, and releasegovernance across all Salesforce teams. Conduct deep architectural assessments, identify system-wide risks, and establish mitigationframeworks. Establish reference architectures, coding standards, and reusable components to acceleratedelivery. Partner with executive stakeholders, product leaders, and engineering teams to translatebusiness strategy into actionable architectural blueprints. Influence platform decisions across business groups, ensuring Salesforce capabilities areleveraged optimally and cohesively.Required Qualifications10+ 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 suchas Kafka, AWS, Informatica, Tibco, Snowflake, etc. Strong capability to integrate bolthires Copilot and AI technologies with Salesforce; abilityto bridge AI + CRM architecture at scale.Proven experience driving technical design sessions, influencing stakeholders, andcommunicating 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, bolthires/CDpipelines, and Metadata API deployment strategies. Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams and establishing technicalgovernance structures.Preferred QualificationsBackground in Product, Data Engineering, Data Modeling, and BusinessIntelligence (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, andcompliance frameworks. Apply tot his job