Senior Salesforce Technical Architect

Senior Salesforce Technical Architect

The Senior Salesforce Technical Architect is a strategic leadership role responsible for bridging business needs with technical execution across the Salesforce ecosystem. This individual leads the design, development, and deployment of scalable Salesforce solutions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and business goals. The role involves guiding cross-functional teams, mentoring technical staff, and serving as a trusted advisor to stakeholders. The architect plays a critical role in driving innovation, optimizing platform usage, and ensuring high performance and maintainability of Salesforce applications.

What You'll Do As A Senior Salesforce Technical Architect

• Design and lead enterprise-scale Salesforce solutions across Field Service, Sales, Service, Marketing, and Experience Clouds, ensuring they meet business objectives and technical standards.
• Establish and enforce development best practices, coding standards, and governance models, while guiding technical teams through complex architectural decisions.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into robust technical designs, and architect secure, scalable integrations with external platforms.
• Monitor and optimize system performance, enforce security and compliance protocols, and ensure all Salesforce implementations are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture.
• Mentor developers, architects, and administrators, fostering a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and innovation across the Salesforce team.

The Experience, Skills, and Abilities Needed

Required:

• Four-year degree in Information Technology or equivalent vocational field is required.
• 10+ years of Salesforce experience, with at least 4 years in an architect role.
• Proven track record of leading enterprise-level Salesforce implementations.
• Strong expertise in Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Components, and Salesforce integrations.
• Experience with CI/CD tools, data migration, and integration tools.
• Strong understanding of security architecture and identity management.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple priorities.
• Salesforce certified Platform Developer II
• Salesforce Certified Application Architect.

Preferred:

• Preferred certifications: Salesforce Certified System Architect, Technical Architect (CTA), Integration Architecture Designer, Certification on Salesforce platform is highly preferred.

What STERIS Offers:

We value our employees and are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, well-being and financial future.

• Market Competitive Pay
• Extensive Paid Time Off and (9) added Holidays
• Excellent Healthcare, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Long/Short Term Disability Coverage
• 401(k) with a company match
• Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Additional add-on benefits/discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement and continued education programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career.

This position requires knowledge of English due to the nature of the duties involved, including regular communications outside the province of Quebec, training, email communications, and frequent meetings and interactions with English-only employees. The employer has taken all reasonable steps to avoid imposing this language requirement, in accordance with the Charter of the French Language.

STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare and life sciences products and services around the globe.