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Senior Salesforce Technical Architect

Job type: Full Time · Department: Solution Architect · Work type: On-Site

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Senior Salesforce Technical Architect

Role Overview

CUBE84 is looking for an experienced and highly skilled Senior Salesforce Technical Architect to lead the technical architecture, solution design, and implementation of enterprise-scale Salesforce solutions. This role is responsible for defining scalable, secure, and high-performing technical architectures while providing technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise across the Salesforce platform, strong integration experience, excellent stakeholder management skills, and a proven track record of leading development teams within a consulting environment. They will work closely with Solution Architects, Project Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and clients to deliver robust, future-ready Salesforce solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Architecture & Solution Design

  • Design scalable, secure, and maintainable Salesforce technical architectures.

  • Translate business requirements into technical solutions aligned with Salesforce best practices.

  • Define solution architecture for Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and custom Salesforce applications.

  • Lead architecture discussions and technical discovery workshops with clients.

  • Evaluate technical trade-offs and recommend optimal solutions.

Salesforce Development Leadership

  • Provide technical leadership to Salesforce development teams across multiple projects.

  • Review technical designs, code quality, and solution implementations.

  • Establish development standards, governance, and best practices.

  • Mentor Senior Developers and Lead Developers.

  • Drive adoption of reusable components and scalable development patterns.

Integration & Enterprise Architecture

  • Design integrations between Salesforce and enterprise applications.

  • Architect API-based integrations using REST, SOAP, Platform Events, Middleware, and ETL tools.

  • Guide data migration, synchronization, and master data management strategies.

  • Ensure security, authentication, and performance considerations are incorporated into integrations.

Platform Governance

  • Define application architecture standards and coding guidelines.

  • Ensure solutions comply with Salesforce governor limits and platform best practices.

  • Conduct architecture reviews and technical risk assessments.

  • Drive technical debt reduction and continuous platform optimization.

Client & Stakeholder Management

  • Serve as the primary technical advisor during client engagements.

  • Present solution approaches and architecture recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.

  • Support pre-sales activities, solution estimation, technical proposals, and RFP responses.

  • Collaborate with Solution Architects, Delivery Managers, and Product teams throughout project execution.

Delivery Support

  • Guide technical teams throughout project implementation.

  • Resolve complex technical challenges and production issues.

  • Support release planning, deployment strategies, and DevOps practices.

  • Ensure technical deliverables meet quality, security, and performance expectations.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.

  • 10+ years of overall software development experience.

  • 7+ years of hands-on Salesforce development experience.

  • 3+ years of experience serving as a Salesforce Technical Architect or Lead Technical Architect.

  • Proven experience delivering enterprise Salesforce implementations in consulting or IT services organizations.

  • Salesforce certifications such as Application Architect, System Architect, or Certified Technical Architect (CTA) are highly desirable.

Required Skills & Competencies

Salesforce Expertise

  • Apex

  • Lightning Web Components (LWC)

  • Aura Components

  • Visualforce

  • Flows

  • Platform Events

  • Custom Metadata

  • Salesforce Security Model

  • Sharing & Visibility

  • Governor Limits

  • Asynchronous Processing

  • SOQL/SOSL

  • Batch Apex

  • Queueable Apex

  • Future Methods

Salesforce Products

  • Sales Cloud

  • Service Cloud

  • Experience Cloud

  • Field Service (preferred)

  • CPQ (preferred)

  • Data Cloud (good to have)

Integration Technologies

  • REST APIs

  • SOAP APIs

  • OAuth

  • Named Credentials

  • Platform Events

  • MuleSoft (preferred)

  • Boomi or other middleware platforms

  • ETL and Data Migration

DevOps & Release Management

  • Git

  • Azure DevOps

  • GitHub

  • Bitbucket

  • Salesforce DX (SFDX)

  • CI/CD Pipelines

  • Copado or Gearset (preferred)

Leadership Skills

  • Technical leadership

  • Solution architecture

  • Client consulting

  • Team mentoring

  • Technical decision-making

  • Stakeholder management

  • Estimation and planning

  • Risk assessment

Preferred Certifications

  • Salesforce Application Architect

  • Salesforce System Architect

  • Salesforce Platform Developer II

  • Salesforce Integration Architect

  • Salesforce Data Architect

  • Salesforce Sharing & Visibility Architect

  • Salesforce Development Lifecycle & Deployment Architect

  • Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) – Highly Desirable

Success Measures

  • Delivery of scalable and maintainable Salesforce solutions.

  • High technical quality and adherence to architecture standards.

  • Successful client implementations with minimal technical debt.

  • Strong developer mentorship and technical team growth.

  • Reduced production defects and improved platform performance.

  • Effective stakeholder engagement and technical leadership.

  • Contribution to delivery excellence, innovation, and pre-sales initiatives.