Job Closed
This listing is no longer active.
👋 We're Salesforce, the customer company. CRM + Data + AI + Trust.
Senior/Lead Technical Architect
Location
California + 3 moreAll locations: California | New York | Massachusetts | Washington
Posted
77 days ago
Salary
$124.7K - $198.2K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior/Lead Technical Architect
Salesforce
• Work with customers to address and solve a wide variety of technical challenges, meshing the agile capabilities of the Salesforce Platform and portfolio solutions with the technologies the customer already has in place. • Develop relationships with customer IT/technical stakeholders, and help them to understand how the Salesforce platform fits into their overall technology strategy. • Act as a trusted advisor, and guide customers towards solutions that have the greatest likelihood of long-term success. • Hone your own knowledge of the Salesforce product suite through hands-on training and exploration in the areas of customization, integration, and delivery, and support our account-aligned solution engineers when this deeper level of expertise is needed to solve customer challenges. • Evangelize the value proposition, benefits, and advantages, of the Salesforce Platform including Data Cloud, Agentforce, AI. • High level familiarity with Tableau, Mulesoft, Slack and more is a bonus. • Educate customers and peers on the ways to solution using the salesforce product suite. • Strong understanding of AI and Data architecture principles and the competitive landscape. • Understand and advise on the broad ecosystem of ISV and partner solutions that cooperate and integrate with Salesforce. • Guide deal strategy by providing insight into the technical buyer, and craft influence strategies that resonate with this audience. • Keep current with both partner and competitive technologies in order to put proposed solutions into the context of the broader technology landscape. • Highlight insights from customer conversations with our product teams to help ensure we are moving in the direction of market needs. • Share your knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned with the broader solution engineering teams to multiply the impact of your work. • Continue to develop yourself as a technologist and as a presales professional in a supportive, collaborative team environment.
Job Requirements
- Ability to understand business & IT department requirements, translate those business needs into a compelling solution, and present your recommendations to executive, technical, and business audiences.
- Exceptional executive presence and proven ability to articulate complex topics effectively to both C-suite leaders and technical practitioners.
- Deep knowledge of enterprise software applications and their delivery, including several of the following: Some coding experience and a willingness to work with code (Apex, Node, Go, R, Java or C#, JavaScript, python, Ruby, etc.)
- Database and data management fundamentals
- Application lifecycle management
- Integration principles and tools
- Enterprise data management tools and methods
- Process orchestration
- Principles of network, application, and information security
- Experience with machine learning concepts (predictive and generative AI), plus the ability to communicate value to diverse audiences.
- Deeply research, evaluate, and experiment with emerging AI and Data technologies, distilling practical, hands-on knowledge and patterns to enable internal teams and guide customer solutions.
- Strong oral, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication and relationship skills.
- Strategic thinker, thought leadership and comfort communicating with executive audiences.
- Excellent time management skills and the ability to support multiple, concurrent projects.
- Lifelong learner, inquisitive, practical, and passionate about technology and sharing knowledge.
- Willing and able to travel domestically.
Benefits
- time off programs
- medical
- dental
- vision
- mental health support
- paid parental leave
- life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- employee stock purchasing program
Related Guides
Related Job Pages
More Backend Engineer Jobs
• Develop your career as you support Gainwell’s focus on creating innovative, purpose-built technologies and solutions • Maintain an understanding of current business issues, objectives, and strategies and recognizes issues and opportunities to apply technology to enhance existing or build new business capabilities • Maintain system readiness to support client SLA • Identify production issues and develop solutions to maintain uptime • Gather debugging information and assist engineering in developing solutions • Upgrade and maintain systems to support requirements • Create all required documentation, participate in code walkthroughs, and perform walkthroughs of changes made by other team members as appropriate • Analyze, design, and write program specifications specs - Code, test, debug, implement and document moderately complex programs • Ensure that business requirements are appropriately translated into solid technical designs
• Develop career supporting Gainwell’s focus on creating innovative technologies and solutions • Perform change order coding and research • Code, test, debug, implement, and document programs • Assist in the modification of company products and/or customer/internal systems • Gather information from the system, analyze program and time requirements, and prepare documentation • Conduct quality assurance activities such as peer reviews
• Collaborate with the development team to design and implement game features and mechanics. • Develop and maintain complex game logic, backend systems, and server-side functionalities using PHP. • Actively utilize and experiment with AI tools (Claude, Codex, Cursor, LLMs) to accelerate refactoring, optimize legacy code, and increase development velocity. • Ensure high-quality code through code reviews, testing, and debugging. • Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical requirements and project milestones. • Optimize data architecture and performance across both MongoDB and MySQL environments. • Optimize game performance for various platforms and devices. • Work closely with the design team to bring their ideas to life in the game. • Stay updated with industry trends, technologies, and AI-assisted engineering to improve game development processes.
• Architect & lead the core execution model (state machine, lifecycle, resource model, failure semantics) • Design platform APIs/SDKs connecting workflows, agents, tools, and product surfaces; drive versioning & compatibility • Guarantee correctness via idempotency, deterministic replays, compensating actions, and data integrity • Engineer reliability at scale: concurrency controls, rate limits, backpressure, sharding/partitioning, and workload isolation • Build security & governance into the core: RBAC/ABAC, policy enforcement, fine-grained audit & lineage • Deliver observability: distributed tracing, structured logs, metrics, and evaluation hooks; build an “explainable trail” of agent actions • Own quality: design reviews, test strategy (unit, property, chaos), performance baselines, SLOs, incident response, and postmortems • Mentor & unblock senior engineers; partner with Product, Security, and Customer teams to translate requirements into durable primitives • Make pragmatic choices on storage, queueing, and compute; create paved roads that accelerate all other teams • Define system boundaries and reduce cross-service coupling through clear architectural patterns • Drive platform-wide standards for correctness, reliability, and API design across teams • Balance short-term delivery with long-term architectural integrity, ensuring the platform evolves without accumulating systemic risk.



