Salesforce Technical Architect

Role: Salesforce Technical Architect

Location: Princeton NJ

Job Type: Fulltime

Work Mode: Onsite - 5 days Work from Office

Applicants must be authorized to work in the US.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced, client-facing Salesforce Technical Architect who combines deep Salesforce technical expertise with excellent communication, stakeholder management, and solution leadership. The architect will lead technical discovery and solution design, translate business goals into secure and scalable Salesforce solutions, guide engineering teams, and own key technical decisions across delivery. Experience in Financial Services (FINS) or Healthcare is strongly preferred, along with relevant Salesforce cloud experience in the applicable domain. The successful candidate must communicate complex technical concepts clearly, facilitate design discussions, lead architecture reviews, and build client confidence.

Key Responsibilities

Manage architecture and technical delivery across multiple projects or workstreams concurrently, balancing priorities, timelines, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder expectations. Provide clear direction to delivery teams and maintain consistent architecture standards across engagements.

• Lead client-facing technical discovery, architecture workshops, requirement clarification, and solution design sessions.
• Translate business objectives and functional requirements into end-to-end Salesforce solution architectures.
• Define solution architecture across Salesforce clouds, integrations, data, security, environments, and deployment processes.
• Create and review architecture diagrams, solution design documents, integration patterns, data flows, and technical decision records.
• Assess declarative versus programmatic implementation options and guide teams toward maintainable, scalable solutions.
• Provide technical leadership to Salesforce Leads, Developers, QA, integration teams, and other delivery contributors.
• Review designs and code for quality, security, performance, scalability, maintainability, and alignment with Salesforce platform limits and best practices.
• Guide integration architecture, API design, error handling, resiliency, monitoring, and cross-system data consistency.
• Define data architecture and advise on data modeling, migration, quality, ownership, and governance.
• Establish technical standards for code quality, reusable components, automation, testing, CI/CD, release management, and environment strategy.
• Identify architecture risks, technical dependencies, delivery constraints, and non-functional requirements early.
• Work with delivery leadership to estimate technical effort, assess trade-offs, manage technical risks, and support delivery planning.
• Lead architecture reviews, design walkthroughs, demos, and technical presentations for client and internal stakeholders.
• Support defect triage and root-cause analysis for complex production and integration issues.
• Evaluate platform capabilities and recommend practical modernization opportunities aligned with business value.

Core Salesforce Architecture Experience

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and delivering Salesforce solutions in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce platform architecture, data model, sharing and security, governor limits, transaction behavior, and platform constraints.
• Ability to define architecture across configuration, Apex, Lightning Web Components, automation, APIs, integrations, and data.
• Experience designing secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable Salesforce solutions.
• Experience with Salesforce integration patterns, API-based connectivity, middleware, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems.
• Experience with environment strategy, source control, CI/CD, testing strategy, deployment governance, and release management.
• Ability to evaluate technical options and clearly explain trade-offs, assumptions, dependencies, and risks.
• Experience establishing reusable architecture patterns, engineering standards, and technical governance.

Relevant Salesforce Cloud Experience

• Strong experience in one or more Salesforce clouds relevant to the client engagement.
• Financial Services preference: Financial Services Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, lending or banking workflows, financial data integration, and relevant industry processes.
• Healthcare preference: Health Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, healthcare member/provider workflows, healthcare data integration, and relevant industry processes.
• Ability to map domain processes and compliance considerations to practical Salesforce solution designs.
• Experience with additional Salesforce clouds or industry solutions is valuable where relevant to the client.

Domain Knowledge – Preferred

• Proven experience in Financial Services (banking, lending, insurance, wealth management, or related services) or Healthcare.
• Ability to understand domain-specific business processes, stakeholders, terminology, and end-to-end workflows.
• Experience identifying domain-driven requirements, data needs, integration dependencies, security considerations, and operational constraints.
• Ability to explain how Salesforce capabilities support the domain's business objectives and where extensions or integrations are required.

Client Communication & Leadership – Mandatory

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; this is a highly client-facing role.
• Ability to lead workshops, facilitate discussions, resolve ambiguity, and drive decisions with business and technology stakeholders.
• Comfort presenting architecture options, recommendations, risks, estimates, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to challenge assumptions constructively and manage competing priorities.
• Ability to create clear architecture documentation and deliver confident solution demos and presentations.
• Proactively communicate delivery risks, dependencies, decisions, and mitigation plans.
• Build trusted relationships with client leadership, product owners, enterprise architects, and engineering teams.

Delivery & Engineering Practices

• Experience working in Agile delivery environments and partnering with delivery managers, product owners, BAs, developers, and QA.
• Ability to translate architecture into actionable implementation guidance, technical backlog items, and delivery milestones.
• Experience supporting estimation, technical planning, design reviews, code reviews, and release readiness.
• Strong focus on security, performance, reliability, maintainability, testability, and operational support.
• Ability to balance ideal architecture with delivery timelines, cost, platform constraints, and business priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce Architect-level certifications are preferred.
• Experience with enterprise integration platforms, identity and access management, and data platforms is a plus.
• Experience with Salesforce modernization, legacy CRM transformation, or complex multi-cloud programs is a plus.
• Experience with AI-enabled Salesforce capabilities is a plus where relevant to the client.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent professional experience may be considered.

What You'll Gain

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with 5% company match to help secure your financial future
• Paid time off and company holidays to recharge and reset
• Exposure to enterprise IT solutions and global clients across diverse industries

About Blue5Green

Blue5Green is a global Salesforce consulting and technology solutions partner, empowering enterprises to accelerate digital transformation, drive innovation, and achieve measurable business outcomes. With deep industry expertise across Financial Services, Healthcare, Public Sector, and Higher Education, we deliver end-to-end solutions spanning Salesforce, Data Management, Artificial Intelligence, Integration, and Intelligent Automation . From strategic consulting and Salesforce implementations to managed services and AI-powered innovation, we help organizations simplify complexity, unlock new opportunities, enhance customer experiences, and maximize operational efficiency.

At Blue5Green, we believe innovation starts with people . Our global team thrives on a culture of collaboration, diversity, continuous learning, and professional growth. We are committed to creating an inclusive, empowering workplace that values creativity, encourages work-life balance, and enables our people to make a meaningful impact. Blue5Green is an Equal Opportunity Employer , dedicated to building a diverse workforce where talent thrives and innovation flourishes.