{"id":3839102,"url":"https://alion.io/job/avetta-senior-salesforce-architect","title":"Senior Salesforce Architect","company":{"id":669249,"name":"Avetta","domain":"avetta.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/avetta","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Enterprise Apps","role_family":"Enterprise Apps","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":170000,"max":200000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":200000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":true},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"Rest API","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-05T18:50:57Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-05","last_verified_at":"2026-11-12T06:48:21Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":6,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":6},"description":"Avetta is building the largest global community of hiring clients and suppliers that are Ready to Work. Its unified platform streamlines compliance, prequalification, safety and performance benchmarking in a single, integrated experience. Trusted by 360,000 businesses across more than 120 countries, Avetta blends AI-driven insights and human expertise to close risk gaps and strengthen supplier reliability so projects start on time, risks are managed proactively and operations scale with certainty.\nSUMMARY\nThe Senior Salesforce Architect serves as a senior technical leader within Avetta’s Business Systems organization, responsible for defining scalable, sustainable, and secure solution architectures across the Salesforce platform and its surrounding business application ecosystem.\nThis role leads architectural design for complex initiatives that span Salesforce and integrated systems, ensuring solutions align with business priorities, data governance standards, platform best practices, and long-term maintainability. The architect translates complex business requirements into clear technical designs covering application behavior, data flows, integrations, automation patterns, security, and operational support.\nThe ideal candidate combines deep Salesforce expertise with a broad systems mindset and is able to evaluate trade-offs across the full technology landscape, including GTM, support, finance, and enterprise integration touchpoints. This role acts as a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders, drives architectural consistency across teams, and helps reduce complexity by establishing reusable patterns, clear standards, and scalable design practices.\nIf residing within commutable distance (30 miles or closer) to one of our offices, a hybrid schedule would be required (3 days in office, 2 days work from home). Candidates within commutable distance are preferred, but those outside of an office area may be considered on a remote basis. \nESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:\nSolution Architecture & Technical Design Leadership\nLead architecture and solution design for complex initiatives involving Salesforce and connected enterprise applications.\nTranslate business requirements into end-to-end technical designs, including system interactions, data models, automation patterns, APIs, event flows, security, and operational considerations.\nDefine scalable architecture patterns that balance business agility with platform stability, supportability, and maintainability.\nConduct architecture reviews for high-impact enhancements, integrations, and strategic programs.\nEstablish and maintain architecture standards, reference patterns, and design guardrails across Business Systems workstreams.\nEnsure solutions make appropriate use of declarative capabilities, custom development, and integration patterns based on complexity, risk, and long-term ownership.\nPlatform & Ecosystem Strategy\nProvide architectural leadership across the Salesforce ecosystem, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, platform automation, DevOps, and related business systems.\nEvaluate solution impacts across upstream and downstream systems such as marketing, finance, support, data, and custom integration services.\nPartner with Product Owners, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to align architecture decisions with strategic priorities, roadmap direction, and delivery constraints.\nIdentify opportunities to simplify the application landscape, reduce technical debt, standardize core business logic, and improve data integrity across systems.\nGuide the evolution of core business capabilities such as lead routing, territory assignment, customer data management, quoting, and workflow orchestration.\nIntegration, Data, & Operational Architecture\nDefine integration architectures and system boundaries that support reliable, observable, and resilient data exchange between Salesforce and external platforms.\nDrive best practices for API design, event-driven processing, retry handling, monitoring, logging, and error management.\nPartner with data, DevOps, and application teams to improve traceability, release readiness, environment alignment, and operational supportability.\nEnsure architecture decisions support data governance, security, compliance, and auditability requirements.\nPromote sound patterns for master data ownership, system-of-record clarity, and cross-system process consistency.\nDelivery Enablement & Cross-Functional Leadership\nParticipate early in discovery, intake, and refinement activities to shape viable and scalable solution options before implementation begins.\nWork closely with developers, administrators, QA, DevOps, analysts, and program leaders to ensure designs are actionable and delivery teams are aligned.\nMentor team members on architecture thinking, design quality, trade-off analysis, and platform best practices.\nSupport creation of architectural decision records, technical documentation, reusable assets, and solution playbooks.\nPresent technical designs and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including leadership stakeholders.\nContinuous Improvement & Governance\nHelp establish and evolve architectural governance practices, review forums, and design approval processes.\nDrive improvements that reduce rework, improve change safety, strengthen release confidence, and increase the scalability of the Business Systems organization.\nMaintain awareness of Salesforce roadmap changes, integration tooling, AI-enabled platform capabilities, and broader enterprise application trends relevant to the role.\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS, IDEAL EDUCATION & TRAINING:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\nAdvanced experience with Salesforce platform architecture across declarative, programmatic, integration, and security domains.\n8+ years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise applications, systems design, or SaaS platform delivery.\n5+ years of hands-on experience designing solutions on the Salesforce platform.\nDemonstrated experience architecting solutions that span Salesforce and multiple integrated enterprise systems.\nStrong understanding of Salesforce architecture, platform limits, security model, data model design, automation tooling, and custom development patterns.\nExperience with enterprise integrations, including REST and event-driven patterns, middleware or orchestration concepts, and cross-system data synchronization.\nProven ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear, scalable, and supportable technical designs.\nExperience leading design reviews, architecture governance discussions, and cross-functional solution workshops.\nStrong understanding of data governance, system-of-record design, observability, and operational support considerations.\nExperience working in Agile delivery environments with close collaboration across product, engineering, QA, DevOps, and business teams.\nExcellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain technical trade-offs in business terms.\nSalesforce certifications such as Application Architect, System Architect, Platform Developer, or equivalent credentials preferred.\nTraining or experience in enterprise integration architecture, API design, and distributed system thinking.\nFamiliarity with DevOps, CI/CD, source control, environment strategy, and release governance in Salesforce-centric delivery models.\nKnowledge of data modeling, master data concepts, and enterprise application architecture practices.\nExperience working with adjacent business platforms such as marketing automation, ERP, billing, support, data, or customer-facing systems.\nExposure to architecture documentation methods such as decision records, reference architectures, sequence diagrams, and solution design artifacts.\nOngoing professional development in Salesforce, enterprise architecture, integration patterns, AI-assisted delivery, or related disciplines.\nAt Avetta, we are committed to paying competitively and providing pay transparency to ensure equitable hiring practices and promote trust. The salary range included in this job posting is based on internal and market data and the role's scope and responsibilities. The final compensation offered to a candidate will be determined by several factors, including work location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.\nThe salary range for this position is $170,000.00 - $200,000.00 per year, with a 10% potential bonus. The anticipated target hiring salary for fully qualified candidates is $180,00.00 - $190,000.00, with a 10% potential bonus, based on the job requirements and level. The final compensation offered will be determined based on the skills, experience and qualifications of the candidate selected in consideration of market pay rates and fairness with internal pay equity.\nWe also offer a comprehensive benefits package, which includes health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), and Flexible Time Off (FTO).\nAvetta is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.\nTo apply for the Senior Salesforce Architect position, please submit your online application by January 31, 2027, at 11:59 PM PST.","description_format":"text","description_chars":9418,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible time off","Professional development","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Supply Chain","Testing, Inspection & Certification"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-05T22:02:10Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 2 · green card filings: 1","filings_12m":2,"filings_prev_12m":3,"green_card_filings_12m":1,"median_offered_wage_usd":152500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-12T07:36:15+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":1}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":33,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-11T05:49:22Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":200000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/avetta-senior-salesforce-architect","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/avetta-senior-salesforce-architect.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T10:12:41Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":20769,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":669249},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=669249"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Favetta-senior-salesforce-architect"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Favetta-senior-salesforce-architect"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Favetta-senior-salesforce-architect"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/avetta-senior-salesforce-architect\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Favetta-senior-salesforce-architect"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3839102}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"avetta.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3839102},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}