• Architecture ownership: Define target state, solution and integration architecture aligned to business outcomes and enterprise standards.
• Solution design: Convert complex requirements into end to end Salesforce designs, including data, security, automation, integrations and non functional requirements.
• Own Salesforce CPQ solution architecture and design governance across product catalog, configuration, pricing, discounting, quote lifecycle, approvals, amendments, renewals and connected contracting, order and billing processes.
• Technical governance: Set design principles, review solution designs and code, manage technical debt and maintain architecture decision records.
• Stakeholder leadership: Facilitate design workshops and communicate trade offs to business, product, security, integration and engineering stakeholders.
• Delivery guidance: Provide actionable technical direction, unblock developers and ensure designs are implementable within Salesforce platform constraints.
• Integration and data: Define API, event, middleware, identity, data migration, master data and observability patterns.
• Security and compliance: Embed least privilege, auditability, privacy, data protection and secure integration principles.
• Release readiness: Assess architectural risk, environment strategy, deployment readiness, performance and operational support needs.

Required experience and technical skills

• Proven architecture leadership across multiple enterprise Salesforce implementations or major transformation programs.
• Deep Salesforce platform knowledge spanning Apex/LWC, Flow, data model, sharing/security, APIs, limits and environment strategy.
• Required Salesforce CPQ architecture experience, including product and bundle modeling, product and price rules, discounting, quote calculation, approvals, amendments, renewals, contracting handoffs and downstream order or billing integration considerations.
• Ability to design resilient integrations, asynchronous processing, identity/access and high volume data solutions.
• Experience producing architecture diagrams, solution designs, interface specifications, decision records and technical roadmaps.
• Strong facilitation and executive communication skills, with the ability to explain technical trade offs in business language.

Preferred experience

• Experience in medical device, life sciences, healthcare or another regulated industry.
• Exposure to Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Life Sciences Cloud and Salesforce data/AI capabilities where applicable.
• Salesforce Application Architect and/or System Architect credentials; Certified Technical Architect is highly advantageous, not mandatory unless required by the client.
• Knowledge of enterprise integration platforms, security architecture, DevOps and observability.

Expected deliverables