Salesforce-Senior Technical Architect at Salesforce – India - Hyderabad | Jobyssey

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About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

The Senior Technical Architect is responsible for successfully designing and managing the successful delivery of complex Salesforce solutions for our customers. These technologies include—but are not necessarily limited to Salesforce products and APIs, Apex/Visualforce, Lightning, mobile development technologies, and integration/ETL technologies.

You are both a big picture thinker and in-depth problem solver, your knowledge and skills are both broad and deep. You take pride in designing systems that stand up to high volumes and won't fail at critical points. You have a good mix of technical and enterprise skills when it comes to architecting a solution, including knowing how to leverage AI development tools like Claude and GitHub Copilot to optimize code quality and accelerate design cycles. The solutions you design are built for the long-term and will scale with the customer's growth plans seamlessly. You have proven experience integrating systems via API’s as well as a strong development background.

What You'll Actually Be Doing:

Collaborate with client stakeholders to define requirements, deliverables, and set and manage expectations
Translate business requirements into well-architected solutions that best leverage the Salesforce platform, including identifying opportunities to embed autonomous AI capabilities using Agentforce
Drive Enterprise AI Architecture by designing and integrating scalable predictive and generative AI solutions within custom Salesforce environments, optimizing performance, resource consumption, and platform governor limits
Lead technical design sessions; architect and document technical solutions aligned with client business objectives; identify gaps between client's current and desired end states, using advanced LLMs like Claude to review architectural assumptions and simulate system edge cases
Champion an AI-first delivery methodology, utilizing advanced AI tools, developer assistants (e.g., Cursor, Claude), and agentic evaluation frameworks to accelerate implementation
Follow and help define coding standards while leading code reviews during projects to ensure quality, using tools like GitHub Copilot and AI coding assistants to enforce design patterns, optimize performance, and accelerate the delivery of custom code, integrations, and data migrations
Focus on Performance Evaluation & ROI by collaborating with customers to develop evaluation frameworks to measure AI performance and business value for their specific use cases
Maintain a target billable utilization aligned to the role
Ability to understand a project and deep dive to debug issues, leveraging AI diagnostics to interpret system logs and isolate performance bottlenecks quickly
From time-to-time, the TA may be expected to partake in other pre-sales activities such as discovery and technical deep-dive sessions, Proof-Of-Concept (POC) development with prospects using AI tools to build prototypes rapidly
Liaise with Salesforce product teams to support client implementations
Travels to client sites for projects, estimated 50-75%

You're Our Person If...

Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
14+ years of overall experience with a minimum of 8 years on the Salesforce platform
Expert level understanding of the Salesforce product suite, including Data Cloud, Industry Clouds, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and familiarity with Agentforce
Understanding of systems architecture and ability to design scalable performance-driven solutions, including using AI platforms to evaluate architectural scaling and load limits
Understanding of key design patterns and large data volume limitations and best practices, with experience using AI tools to model data distribution and analyze potential data skew risks
Understanding of data sharing and visibility considerations and how these play into platform architecture
Familiarity with platform authentication patterns (SAML, SSO, OAuth) and how to configure them securely
Knowledge of data integration tools and experience integrating Salesforce with different business systems (ETL, CPQ, marketing automation, reporting, etc.), utilizing AI platforms to parse third-party REST API documentation and map complex data schemas
Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies
Experience with platform security capabilities (TLS, SSL)
Practical fluency using AI coding assistants and modern development ecosystems (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, Claude) to accelerate delivery, document technical architecture, and maintain a high standard of code quality
Expert level experience defining the system architecture landscape, identifying gaps between current and desired end-states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will enable achievement of the desired business outcomes
Strong background in design/development of large web-based systems, or complete software product lifecycle exposure
Active Salesforce certifications or ability to achieve relevant certifications upon hire

Preferred Certifications:

Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA)
Salesforce Application Architect or System Architect
Other relevant AI/ML, AI Specialist, or Cloud Architect certifications

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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