Salesforce Architect

Job Title:Salesforce Architect

Location: Hybrid (local to DMV)

Duration: Long term

Note:This Architect will work on Cloud Operations Support Task Order under the new BPA. We had the kickoff meeting yesterday with client and they provided the details of what he expects in the new Salesforce Architect who has to be onboarded.

Key Responsibilities

• Review application architecture, data models, integrations, security, scalability, performance, and technical debt; establish reference architectures, review processes, decision records, and exception management.
• Set standards for Apex, LWC, Visualforce, Flow, APIs, testing, and deployment.
• Define secure integration, identity, sharing, permissions, and audit patterns, including Salesforce-to-AWS authentication, document access, and error handling.
• Build Agentforce solutions with grounded responses, custom Apex/Flow/API actions, human escalation, evaluation, monitoring, and versioning; assess platform capabilities and licensing dependencies.
• Build comparable Agentforce and Bedrock POCs; evaluate accuracy, traceability, reviewer effort, latency, cost, security, and maintainability before recommending additional frameworks.
• Establish AI safeguards, including sensitive-data protection, least-privilege access, and prompt-injection defenses.
• Identify reusable Visualforce, LWC, Apex, and Flow capabilities; define reuse/refactoring standards, component interfaces, documentation, automated tests, CI/CD, and knowledge transfer.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise application experience, including 7+ years in Salesforce and 3+ years in architecture.
• Strong hands-on Apex, LWC, Visualforce, Flow, SOQL, API, integration, security, governor-limit, bulk-processing, testing, and deployment expertise.
• Enterprise governance experience across multiple applications and development teams.
• Demonstrated Agentforce implementation, including grounded AI, retrieval-augmented generation, custom actions, evaluation, and human oversight.
• Working knowledge of Amazon Bedrock and ability to build POCs with AWS engineers.

Key Deliverables


Architecture assessment and roadmap; governance and reusable component standards; comparative Agentforce/Bedrock POCs; recommended production architecture, security controls, dependencies, and implementation roadmap.