Salesforce Technical Architect at Aethereus · Remote only · 9 - 12 years · ₹10L - ₹25L / yr · Raised funding · Remote only · Posted 25 Oct 2022
The Salesforce Technical Architect is responsible for successfully designing and managing the successful delivery of complex Salesforce solutions for our customers.
Responsibilities
• Collaborate with client stakeholders to define requirements, deliverables, and set and manage expectations
• Translate business requirements into system solutions
• Lead technical design sessions; architect and document technical solutions aligned with client business objectives
• Provide oversight and governance of Salesforce projects
• Follow and help define coding standards. Lead code reviews during projects to ensure quality and appropriate design patterns are followed
• Manage the technical delivery of custom development, integrations, and data migration elements of a Salesforce implementation
• Ability to understand a project and deep dive to debug issues
• Provide solutions to pre-sales teams and present solutions to customers
Requirements
• 9-14 years CRM experience with a minimum of 6 years on the Salesforce platform
• Expert level understanding of the Salesforce clouds, including Sales, Service, Community, Marketing and Community Clouds
• Knowledge of Manufacturing & Consumer Goods clouds is an added advantage
• Understanding of systems architecture and ability to design scalable performance-driven solutions
• Understanding of key design patterns and large data volume limitations and best practices
• Understanding of data sharing and visibility considerations and how these play into platform architecture
• Familiarity with standard authentication mechanisms.
• Knowledge of data integration tools and experience integrating Salesforce with different busines

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The consultant will support requirements gathering, assessment of existing Salesforce environments, data and process analysis, platform rationalization, and evaluation of Salesforce as a potential target platform.
⚠️ Mandatory Certification
A valid Salesforce Solution Architect / Application Architect certification is mandatory. Candidates without this certification will not be considered.
Key Responsibilities
- Participate in business and technical discovery sessions with stakeholders across organizations.
- Understand and document current-state customer success processes, workflows, data structures, and Salesforce platform usage.
- Assess existing Salesforce environments, including:
- Salesforce data model and objects
- Configuration and customization
- Workflows and automation
- Business rules
- Roles, profiles, permissions, and security
- Enterprise integrations
- Data quality, duplication, and dependencies
- Custom applications and components
- Analyze how Salesforce data and processes interact with Atlassian/Jira Service Management and ServiceNow.
- Identify Salesforce capabilities supporting the future-state operating model.
- Evaluate gaps between current Salesforce capabilities and business requirements.
- Provide recommendations covering platform fit, configuration vs. customization, data migration, integrations, and target-state architecture.
- Contribute to future-state design and Design Blueprint.
- Identify data migration considerations including mapping, data quality, historical data, transformation requirements, and dependencies.
- Identify risks, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.
- Collaborate with Salesforce, ServiceNow, JSM, data migration, and business transformation teams.
- Present Salesforce findings, architecture considerations, and recommendations to client stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Support enterprise application consolidation, platform rationalization, and transformation initiatives.
Required Skills & Experience
- 9+ years of Salesforce experience
- Strong Salesforce consulting, solution design, architecture, or platform assessment experience.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture and platform capabilities.
- Strong knowledge of:
- Salesforce Data Model
- Configuration & Customization
- Automation
- Security
- Roles, Profiles & Permissions
- Integrations
- Hands-on Salesforce architecture and solution design experience.
- Enterprise-scale Salesforce discovery and assessment experience.
- Ability to translate business requirements into Salesforce capabilities and solution options.
- Strong understanding of data migration and data integration.
- Experience assessing complex Salesforce environments with significant customization and integration footprints.
- Experience with enterprise application consolidation, platform rationalization, or technology transformation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to work with both business and technical stakeholders.
- Experience working in multi-platform environments involving Salesforce, ServiceNow, Atlassian/Jira Service Management, and data migration teams.
Preferred Skills
- Salesforce Certified Administrator
- Platform Developer
- Platform App Builder
- Sales Cloud Consultant
- Service Cloud Consultant
- Application Architect
- System Architect
- Service Cloud
- Salesforce Data Cloud
- ServiceNow
- Atlassian / Jira Service Management
- Salesforce data migration
- M&A integration
- Post-acquisition technology consolidation
- Large-scale operating model and technology transformation
Core Competencies
Salesforce Architecture | Solution Design | Enterprise Salesforce Assessment | Salesforce Discovery | Data Model & Data Analysis | Configuration & Customization | Automation & Workflows | Security & Access Management | Integration Architecture | Data Migration | Platform Rationalization | Enterprise Application Consolidation | Business Process Analysis | Target-State Architecture
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Senior Salesforce Architect with 8+ years of experience to lead Salesforce architecture, solution design, and enterprise integrations. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Sales Cloud, Salesforce CPQ, quote-to-cash processes, and professional services operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Own Salesforce solution architecture, scalability, security, and platform governance.
- Lead solution design across Sales Cloud, Certinia PSA, and quote-to-cash processes.
- Architect integrations with NetSuite, MuleSoft, Workday, and other enterprise platforms.
- Define data models, integration patterns, automation, and technical best practices.
- Provide technical leadership to developers, administrators, and integration teams.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
Required Skills
- 8+ years of Salesforce experience, including architecture responsibilities.
- Experience with large-scale Salesforce implementations.
- Strong expertise in Sales Cloud, Salesforce CPQ, and quote-to-cash.
- Hands-on knowledge of Apex, SOQL, Flow, LWC, Salesforce APIs, and Platform Events.
- Strong understanding of enterprise integrations, middleware, data architecture, and security.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Certinia PSA (FinancialForce).
- Familiarity with NetSuite, MuleSoft, and Workday.
- Experience in professional services or consulting environments.
- Salesforce Architect certifications.

Overview:
We are looking for a Principal Architect for a Private Equity backed, fast growing AI First Product Engineering Services firm.
This role will be a key member of the core leadership team of the firm.
He/ She will serve as a strategic technical leader, solution designer, and customer advisor. In this role, you will combine deep and broad-based technical expertise with strong business acumen to architect high-value solutions, lead pre-sales engagements, and mentor our practice/CoE team. You will work closely with customers to understand their business needs, translate them into scalable technical solutions, and guide delivery teams in successful implementation.
Responsibilities:
1. Solutioning & Pre-Sales
● Engage with customers, understand their business context, and guide them through a discovery and design process leading to a proposed solution
● Work with sales teams to develop winning proposals, RFP responses, and technical presentations.
● Will need to take single point ownership of the pre sales process, including client interactions, proposal preparation, presentations, pricing etc
● Drive proof-of-concepts as part of the pre sales process
● Build frameworks for different kinds of proposals and presentations to bring in repeatability and efficiency in the process
● Work closely with marketing to create content around Indexnine offerings, solutions, capabilities and case studies
2. Delivery
● Provide technical oversight during project delivery, ensuring adherence to architectural principles, standards, and best practices and ensure the as-sold solution is realised
● Act as a trusted advisor to senior customer stakeholders (CXO level and technical leads). Will need to engage with Customers through delivery as required
● Create points of view on accounts to help mine and grow accounts.
3. Practice & CoE Development
● Work closely with the labs. Contribute to the development of new products/ accelerators.
● Mentor and coach engineers to enhance their technical and customer engagement skills.
4. Thought leadership
● Keep abreast of technology and produce points of view for Indexnine’s offerings and technical capabilities
● Represent the company at industry forums, webinars, and client workshops.
● Be able to independently conduct discovery and solutioning workshops with Customers
Skills/Qualifications:
● 15+ years of overall experience with a blend of architecting, pre sales and technical delivery
● Should be leading a pre-sales unit in a services organization. Hands-on with designing solutions, proposal writing, estimation, pricing and customer presentations.
● Broad based technical expertise and having played a Sr Architect role for at least 2 years
● Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and team leadership skills.
● Experience working in an IT services environment in the Product Engineering space (i.e designing and building bespoke products/solutions)
● BE/ Masters degree
We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Salesforce Consultant / Salesforce Architect with strong expertise in Salesforce architecture, solution design, enterprise discovery, platform assessment, data analysis, integrations, and business process transformation.
The consultant will bring deep Salesforce platform expertise to the discovery and transformation team, supporting requirements gathering, assessment of existing Salesforce environments, data and process analysis, platform rationalization, and evaluation of Salesforce as a potential target platform.
The ideal candidate should be comfortable engaging with both business and technical stakeholders and translating complex business requirements into practical Salesforce capabilities and target-state solutions.







