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Job Title: Salesforce Application Architect
Location: Frisco, Texas, United States
Type: Full Time
The Principal Solution Architect collaborates with business and technology teams to successfully integrate Salesforce systems and components, overseeing the deployment, maintenance, and administration of complex Salesforce-driven enterprise solutions.
What you will do:
As the Principal Architect, you will…
- Contribute to defining Salesforce architecture models, solution patterns, and implementation guidelines aligned with enterprise architecture standards and Salesforce best practices.
- Analyze and translate DSD, retail execution, and consumer goods business requirements into conceptual Salesforce architectures and high-level system designs.
- Develop conceptual models of how field sales representatives, merchandisers, route drivers, and retail users interact with Salesforce solutions.
- Review existing Salesforce and adjacent systems to determine improvement or modernization opportunities.
- Collaborate with teams to create Salesforce solutions and integration diagrams.
- Identify organizational impact on people, processes, technology, and financials.
- Evaluate Salesforce products and third-party ISV solutions and their integration into the architecture.
- Shepherd Salesforce solution design and implementation while resolving architectural issues with strong problem-solving skills.
- Architect and extend Salesforce Consumer Goods Retail Execution (CGRE) applications, including visit planning, in-store execution, surveys, tasks, and mobile offline experiences
- Apply Einstein AI and analytics capabilities to enable insights-driven decision-making, predictive recommendations, and performance optimization for field sales and retail execution teams.
- Design and implement Salesforce Agentforce and AI-powered experiences to support intelligent automation, guided selling, and field productivity use cases across DSD and retail execution workflows.
- Ensure resiliency, availability, scalability, performance, and maintainability of Salesforce solutions.
- Research emerging Salesforce features and industry trends.
Requirements:
- Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in related field (e.g., Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, System Analysis, etc.) or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- 10 – 12 years of experience in IT and business/industry including strategic and operations planning
- 10 years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution, or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management, or operations
- Experience in working in multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
- 3–5 years of IT experience including Salesforce architecture, design, and delivery.
- Knowledge of SDLC methodologies with experience delivering Salesforce solutions in Agile and DevOps environments
- Proven ability to translate strategic vision into executable Salesforce roadmaps.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and communicate effectively with business stakeholders.
Preferred Skills:
- Strong knowledge of the Salesforce ecosystem supporting Consumer Goods, DSD, and retail execution highly desired.
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce Agentforce, Einstein AI, and intelligent automation features in enterprise Salesforce implementations
- Experience designing and delivering solutions using Salesforce low-code/no-code tools, balancing speed of delivery with architectural rigor.
- Experience integrating Salesforce with ERP, DSD, route accounting, and analytics platforms or similar ecosystems