Salesforce Senior Technical Architect

Job Description

Role and Responsibilities

Astralis’ Technical Architect partners closely with our customer’s technology and business stakeholders to define a scalable Salesforce architecture, vision, and strategy that drives best ‑ in ‑ class business outcomes. This role ensures that solution designs and system deliverables meet agreed ‑ upon acceptance criteria while overseeing the successful execution of all implementation deliverables.

Acting as a key liaison between our customers and internal delivery teams, the Technical Architect translates business requirements into robust Salesforce solutions that address core client needs. Ideal candidates bring hands ‑ on consulting experience with the Salesforce platform, enterprise integrations and data architecture to uphold best practices in technical design, documentation, and architectural governance.

• Responsible for overall Salesforce technical architecture, design, custom development and implementation.
• Lead customer architecture initiatives from inception to completion, collaborating with business stakeholders to create scalable architecture in alignment with business needs
• Lead business and technology analysis and provide Salesforce domain expertise
• Act as a technical subject matter expert for customers and provide best practice recommendations as necessary
• Define and oversee data models, security architecture, API integrations (and performance optimization strategies
• Lead the development and adoption of reusable architecture assets/solutions to improve Astralis delivery efficiency and customer time to value
• Produce technical design, architecture and prioritization/level of effort documentation to aid effective and efficient project delivery
  
  

Qualifications

• Solution snf Data Design: Architect scalable, performance-driven data models and integration strategies (including APIs, middleware, and ETL tools).
• Conceptualize end to end integration projects & knowledge of authentication mechanisms.
• Understands web services (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML), API/Governor limits and other technologies that can be used to transport data in an enterprise environment and interact with Salesforce.com
• Knowledge, experience, and understanding of middleware applications (e.g., Mulesoft, Boomi, etc.)  
• Security and Governance: Define platform security policies (e.g., SSO, OAuth, TLS) and manage Large Data Volumes
• DevOps & Release Management: Understanding of Release Management, Application Lifecycle Management, Development Lifecycle, and Deployment Best Practices and Governance
• Establish release management best practices, continuous integration (CI/CD), version control, and code quality governance.
• Excellent verbal and written communication to technical audiences, non-technical audiences, and senior management. 
• Significant knowledge of Salesforce's suite of products including Sales Cloud, Revenue Cloud, Service Cloud, and Experience Cloud
• Desired Certifications
• Certified Integration Architect
• Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect
• Certified System Architect
• Certified Identity and Access Management Architect
• Certified Data Architecture and Management Designer
• Certified Application Architect
• Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science (preferred)
• Seven (7) years of applicable work experience (minimum of 5 years of experience in a technical architect role) 
• Bonus qualifications / experience
• Life Sciences Cloud
• Architected and deployed at least 1 Agent