Hybrid Architect – Salesforce Architecture Center

at Salesforce

• Job title: Architect – Salesforce Architecture Center
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $251,900 - $384,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Google Cloud Platform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Architect driving best practices for Salesforce solutions, providing architectural guidance and consulting to diverse stakeholders while leveraging deep technical expertise. Ensure alignment with customer goals and deliver high-quality documentation.

Responsibilities

• Provide proactive, hands-on architectural consulting and technical advisory services to a diverse audience, including executive leadership, technical teams, and business stakeholders
• Continuously research, define, and disseminate best practices and reference architectures for ensuring Salesforce implementations are secure, maintainable, performant, and scalable
• Ensure that all architectural decisions are directly aligned with and enable the customer's overarching business goals, strategic vision, and desired return on investment (ROI)
• Conduct comprehensive technical reviews and deep-dive health checks of existing and planned Salesforce implementations
• Develop and maintain high-quality architectural documentation, white papers, playbooks, and training materials

Requirements

• 15+ (ideally 20+) years of hands-on software development experience
• Exceptional ability to independently craft and deliver strategic technical documentation, white papers, blogs and presentations
• Strong understanding of architectural patterns for highly scalable and resilient systems
• Demonstrated expertise in architecting and implementing distributed systems, backend technologies, and cloud-native solutions (AWS, GCP, Alibaba experience highly valued)
• A passion for innovation, with experience driving research, POCs, and integrating emerging technologies like AI
• Deep experience in setting long-term design strategies that span multiple complex projects
• Strong formal and informal mentorship capabilities
• Comfortable working within short release cycles and the full software development lifecycle
• Proficiency with Agile development methodologies (e.g., Scrum)
• A related technical degree is required.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid parental leave
• Life and disability insurance
• Time off programs
• Dental and vision insurance
• Mental health support
• Employee stock purchasing program