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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Senior Salesforce Architect
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 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
We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Solution Architect to lead the design, development, and evolution of enterprise Salesforce solutions supporting global B2B and B2C business operations.
The ideal candidate will combine strong solution architecture capabilities with hands-on Salesforce technical expertise. The role requires someone who can translate complex business requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions, guide development teams, make sound architectural decisions, and write or debug code when required.
The architect will work across multiple Salesforce applications, external enterprise systems, country-specific business processes, and cross-functional technology teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards and long-term business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
1. Solution Architecture and Design
Own end-to-end Salesforce solution architecture, from requirements discovery through design, implementation, deployment, and production support.
Translate business requirements into scalable Salesforce architectures, technical designs, data models, integration patterns, and implementation roadmaps.
Evaluate standard Salesforce capabilities, configuration, declarative automation, custom development, and external services to recommend the most appropriate solution.
Define architectural standards, reusable components, coding guidelines, design patterns, and technical best practices.
Assess the impact of proposed changes on existing applications, integrations, business processes, and future enhancements.
Identify technical risks, scalability constraints, platform limitations, and opportunities for simplification.
2. Hands-on Salesforce Development
Write, review, debug, and optimize Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), SOQL, and other Salesforce customizations when required.
Develop proof-of-concepts and technical prototypes to validate architectural decisions and resolve complex technical challenges.
Demonstrate strong understanding of Apex triggers, asynchronous processing, Batch Apex, Queueable Apex, platform events, transaction management, and governor limits.
Ensure code follows bulkification, security, exception-handling, testability, and performance best practices.
Review complex implementations and guide developers in resolving technical issues.
Participate directly in critical development activities, production troubleshooting, and performance optimization when necessary.
3. Salesforce Data Modeling and Governance
Design scalable Salesforce data models using standard and custom objects, appropriate relationships, and well-defined ownership and sharing strategies.
Define data mastership, external identifiers, deduplication, matching, data migration, and reconciliation approaches.
Design data models that support global customer identities, B2B relationships, B2C customer journeys, and country-specific business requirements.
Ensure appropriate data access, privacy, auditability, and regulatory considerations are incorporated into the architecture.
4. Integration Architecture
Design and govern integrations between Salesforce and enterprise platforms such as SAP, customer portals, identity providers, middleware, and marketing platforms.
Define suitable integration patterns using REST/SOAP APIs, event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, and middleware where appropriate.
Address authentication, authorization, idempotency, retries, error handling, monitoring, reconciliation, and integration resilience.
Collaborate with enterprise integration and platform teams to manage dependencies, API contracts, release sequencing, and system-wide changes.
5. Global Platform and Release Governance
Support a global Salesforce platform operating across multiple countries and business markets.
Balance global architecture standards with legitimate local business and regulatory requirements.
Evaluate the impact of changes across countries, applications, integrations, and downstream systems before approving designs.
Coordinate with business stakeholders, development teams, QA, DevOps, security, and platform teams to ensure controlled delivery.
Contribute to release planning, technical risk assessments, environment strategy, deployment readiness, and production stability.
Prevent unnecessary customization and architectural fragmentation across markets.
6. Technical Leadership and Team Enablement
Provide technical direction and architectural guidance to Salesforce developers, technical leads, QA engineers, and integration teams.
Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, design walkthroughs, and technical knowledge-sharing sessions.
Establish development standards and reusable patterns that improve code quality, maintainability, and developer productivity.
Mentor team members and support technical decision-making across distributed teams.
Communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and business stakeholders.
7. Platform Evolution and Continuous Improvement
Evaluate new Salesforce capabilities and recommend adoption based on business value, technical fit, and platform strategy.
Identify opportunities to improve performance, reduce technical debt, simplify integrations, and optimize delivery costs.
Contribute to Salesforce platform roadmaps and long-term architecture decisions.
Support production incident analysis and implement sustainable solutions that prevent recurring issues.
Required Technical Skills
Strong expertise in Salesforce Sales Cloud and Experience Cloud.
Hands-on experience with Apex, Triggers, LWC, SOQL, Salesforce security, and declarative automation.
Strong understanding of Salesforce data modeling, sharing and visibility, governor limits, transaction boundaries, and platform architecture.
Experience designing enterprise integrations using REST/SOAP APIs and asynchronous or event-driven patterns.
Understanding of integration resilience, error handling, monitoring, data reconciliation, and API security.
Experience with Salesforce deployments, source control, CI/CD, and release management.
Familiarity with enterprise identity and access management, SSO, OAuth, and external identity solutions.
Ability to diagnose complex technical issues and validate architectural decisions through working code or prototypes.
Preferred Experience
Experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud and customer engagement integrations.
Exposure to Salesforce Data Cloud and/or Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud.
Experience with SAP or other ERP integrations.
Experience with middleware and integration platforms such as MuleSoft, SnapLogic, Informatica, or equivalent technologies.
Experience with multi-country Salesforce implementations and global platform governance.
Experience with Experience Cloud portals, external users, customer identity, and large-scale customer data management.
Familiarity with consent management, customer data privacy, and market-specific regulatory requirements.
Experience and Qualifications
Typically 10+ years of Salesforce or relevant enterprise CRM experience.
Demonstrated experience owning solution architecture for complex Salesforce implementations.
Proven experience leading technical teams and collaborating across business and technology functions.
Salesforce Application Architect certification preferred; System Architect or relevant advanced certifications are an advantage.
Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder-management, and problem-solving skills.
Success Criteria
The successful candidate will be expected to:
Deliver scalable and maintainable architecture aligned with enterprise standards.
Make defensible design decisions with clear consideration of alternatives, risks, and trade-offs.
Independently validate critical technical designs through code, prototypes, debugging, and code reviews.
Minimize regression risk across existing systems, integrations, and country implementations.
Improve engineering standards and enable development teams to deliver consistently.
Maintain a balance between architectural leadership and hands-on technical contribution.
Role Expectation
This is an architecture-led role with hands-on technical responsibilities. The candidate is not expected to spend every day implementing features, but must be capable of independently writing and debugging Apex and related Salesforce code when complex technical challenges, critical issues, or architectural validation require it.
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.
The recruiter has not been active on this job recently. You may apply but please expect a delayed response.
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.
Technical Architect
Experience:
10+ Years
Work Mode:
Onsite / Hybrid
Role Type:
Architecture + Hands-on Engineering + Technical Leadership
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced and hands-on
Technical Architect
who can define enterprise-widearchitecture, technology strategy, and engineering standards across multiple products and platforms.
The Technical Architect will translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions, guideengineering teams, reduce technical risks, and remain actively involved in implementation when required.
This is
not a purely advisory or documentation-focused role
. The successful candidate should becomfortable contributing directly to production-quality code, prototypes, critical modules, technical fixes,and architectural Proofs of Concept (PoCs).
Key Responsibilities
Define enterprise architecture strategy, target architecture, and technology roadmaps acrossproducts and platforms.
Design scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable software systems.
Architect cloud-native, distributed, microservices-based, and multi-tenant SaaS solutions.
Translate product and business requirements into architecture, technical designs, serviceboundaries, data models, and API contracts.
Establish architecture governance, coding standards, engineering best practices, and designprinciples.
Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, and technical risk assessments.
Identify scalability bottlenecks, security risks, performance issues, and technical debt.
Drive modernization initiatives and technology evaluations.
Guide technology selection and technical investment decisions.
Mentor Technical Leads, Senior Engineers, and other engineering team members.
Collaborate with Product, Engineering, QA, DevOps, Security, and business stakeholders.
Support technical estimation, solution feasibility, delivery planning, and architecture planning.
Hands-on Engineering Responsibilities
The Technical Architect must remain actively involved in engineering and should be capable of switchingbetween architecture and implementation depending on project requirements.
Responsibilities include:
Develop production-quality backend, frontend, or integration components when required.
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Build technical prototypes, PoCs, reference implementations, and reusable frameworks.
Assist engineering teams with complex technical and production issues.
Perform root-cause analysis and technical troubleshooting.
Contribute to performance and scalability improvements.
Implement or guide security fixes and critical technical modules.
Review existing codebases and recommend improvements.
Drive refactoring and modernization initiatives.
Conduct code reviews and establish implementation patterns.
Pair with engineers when required to translate architectural decisions into working software.
Remain comfortable moving between architecture, design, coding, reviews, and troubleshooting.
Core Technical Skills
Programming
JavaScript
TypeScript
Python
Go / Golang
Java
Spring Boot
Architecture & System Design
Microservices Architecture
Distributed Systems
Multi-Tenant SaaS
Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
API-First Architecture
Cloud-Native Architecture
Enterprise Application Architecture
Backend Engineering
Node.js
Express.js
REST APIs / Enterprise APIs
Identity Management
Authentication & Authorization
Messaging
Integration Architecture
Database & Data
MongoDB
Redis
Data Modeling
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Query Optimization
Performance Optimization
Frontend & Mobile
React.js
React Native
Cloud & DevOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Containerized Applications
Cloud-Native Deployments
Security
Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)
API Security
Encryption
Security Governance
Authentication & Authorization
AI & Emerging Technologies
LangChain
Gemini
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
AI Agents
OCR
Enterprise Integrations
Enterprise APIs
Payment Gateways
WhatsApp Business Integration
Third-Party System Integrations
These technologies and architecture areas are specified as the core technical expertise for the position.
Product & Engineering Expectations
The ideal candidate should have:
Strong experience building production-grade software products, not only isolated applications or
PoCs.
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Ability to balance ideal architecture with business timelines, budget, maintainability, and
engineering-team capabilities.
Experience working in evolving product environments with changing requirements and multiple
parallel initiatives.
Strong ability to evaluate technology options and explain technical trade-offs.
Ownership mindset with the ability to proactively identify and resolve technical problems.
Strong understanding of reliability, security, observability, performance, scalability, and
maintainability.
Ability to take architectural decisions from initial design through successful production
implementation.
Technical Leadership & Collaboration
Mentor Technical Leads and Senior Engineers.
Establish and promote a strong engineering culture.
Define clear technical direction and engineering standards.
Lead architecture, design, and code reviews.
Participate in technical hiring and evaluation of senior engineering candidates.
Help establish technical interview and engineering assessment standards.
Evaluate architecture, coding, system design, and problem-solving capabilities.
Communicate architecture decisions, technical risks, dependencies, and delivery implications to
leadership.
Promote effective documentation of architecture decisions, APIs, dependencies, and operational
considerations.
Preferred Experience
Experience in one or more of the following areas will be preferred:
FinTech
SaaS Products
AI Platforms
Cloud-Native Applications
Enterprise-Scale Distributed Systems
Nice to Have
Kafka
GraphQL
Serverless Architecture
Machine Learning Platforms
Multi-Cloud Architecture
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a senior engineer and architect capable of operating at both strategic and
implementation levels.









