Salesforce Technical Architect

Responsibilities • Lead end-to-end Salesforce Field Service implementations, including architecture design across Work Orders, Assets, Scheduling, Mobility, Inventory, and Technician Enablement. • Architect scalable, API-driven integrations between Salesforce and ERP, billing, CPQ/Revenue Cloud, asset systems, and middleware platforms (MuleSoft, Boomi, OIC), ensuring clear system-of-record alignment. • Define and govern technical architecture standards, including clean-core principles, data models, event-driven frameworks, integration sequencing, and DevOps strategy. • Drive pre-sales solutioning: lead RFP responses, architecture design, effort estimation, risk identification, assumption documentation, demos, and executive client presentations. • Provide strategic advisory to clients on Field Service operating models, workforce optimization, automation, AI-readiness, and enterprise service transformation roadmaps. • Lead and mentor distributed development and integration teams, establishing code quality standards, architecture review governance, and issue resolution frameworks. • Serve as escalation point for complex technical issues across integrations, performance optimization, and cross-system dependencies. • Stay current on Salesforce innovations (Field Service, Platform Events, Data Cloud, AI capabilities) and translate roadmap updates into practical, scalable client solutions. • Develop reusable accelerators, integration patterns, and solution frameworks to strengthen go-to-market differentiation and delivery efficiency. • Take full ownership of technical delivery outcomes — aligning business process design, architecture integrity, and long-term scalability. Required skills/qualifications • Overall experience of 10+ years with a minimum of 4 years serving as a Subject Matter Expert/Leader for Salesforce Core or other capability technical implementations. • 5+ years of Apex programming, triggers, controllers and classes • 3+ years of Lightning Aura Component or LWC programming • Proven 2+ years of development team leadership experience • Experience estimating RFP/pursuits and documenting assumptions that underpin the estimate • Strong experience developing components/applications using Lightning Framework • Solid experience using standard salesforce APIs (REST, Bulk, Streaming); • Excellent knowledge of Salesforce ecosystem • Experience using Salesforce data tools; • Strong understanding of Salesforce SDLC. Good to have: • Software architecture design using object-oriented and modularity principles; • Experience with working on complex functional software projects that require a deep understanding of the application logic and dependencies; • Technical documentation writing skills; • Design patterns knowledge and experience; • Basic knowledge of project management; • Experience with interviewing and on-boarding of engineers; • Experience managing geographically distributed teams. Originally posted on Himalayas