Salesforce Solution Architect

What You Will Do:

• Serve as a strategic advisor and Salesforce solution and platform expert to the company's largest, most complex Public Sector clients
• Lead solution design across business and technology domains, translating client needs into scalable, maintainable Salesforce architectures
• Play a key role in both presales and delivery, shaping, scoping, and solutioning engagements to position customers for long-term success
• Provide solution oversight and delivery leadership on large-scale, mission-critical programs, ensuring alignment to business outcomes and technical standards
• Serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders, guiding decision-making across business process, data, integration, and platform capabilities
• Drive solution excellence by aligning business requirements to Salesforce capabilities, industry accelerators, and best practices
• Collaborate with business analysts, developers, and technical architects to design end-to-end solutions across Salesforce clouds and integrated systems
• Lead fit-gap analysis and recommend optimal approaches leveraging configuration, integration, and custom development as needed
• Guide teams on solution patterns, integration strategies, data models, and automation design
• Identify and proactively manage solution risks, dependencies, and trade-offs, ensuring issues are resolved through completion
• Review and ensure quality of key deliverables, including solution designs, architecture diagrams, and functional specifications
• Work closely with Delivery Managers and Project Managers to ensure successful execution within scope, budget, and timeline expectations
• Contribute to practice growth through thought leadership, accelerators, and reusable solution assets
• Provide mentorship and guidance to delivery teams, fostering a high-performance and collaborative culture
• Ability to commute to client or corporate offices within the Washington, DC metropolitan area as the practice needs

What You Will Need:

• 6+ years of Salesforce solution architecture or consulting experience, including end-to-end solution design and delivery
• Bachelor's degree is required (relevant experience may be substituted)
• Strong understanding of Salesforce platform capabilities, including Sales, Service, Experience, and/or Public Sector Solutions
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into scalable solution designs, including data models, integrations, and automation
• Experience leading fit-gap analysis and solutioning workshops with business and technical stakeholders
• Ability to design and optimize business processes enabled by Salesforce and integrated technologies
• Strong understanding of integration patterns, data migration considerations, and enterprise architecture principles
• Ability to effectively communicate complex technical solutions to both business and technical audiences
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment across large organizations
• Experience working in Agile or Hybrid-Agile delivery environments
• Familiarity with and ability to leverage AI-enabled tools and accelerators to enhance solution design, requirements analysis, data insights, and delivery efficiency