Description
Salesforce Professional Services is hiring Solution Architects to join the Missionforce team. As a Solution Architect, you will provide steady architectural leadership across large and complex engagements and partner with executive and delivery stakeholders to co-create and execute solution visions for our most complex customers in the Defense & National Security space. The Solution Architect serves as a hands-on advisor combining Salesforce platform expertise, industry knowledge, and consulting acumen to design and deliver scalable, mission-aligned solutions.
The Solution Architect / Senior Solution Architect is a dual-impact leader across presales and delivery, responsible for shaping, scoping, and aligning complex engagements to position federal customers for long-term success as a trusted advisor.. This role drives architectural strategy from initial solutioning through execution, ensuring mission-critical programs are set up to deliver measurable outcomes. They provide and are accountable for architectural integrity, executive alignment, and elevate solution quality while cultivating a high-performance culture across the team. As stewards of the Professional Services Methodology, they leverage cross-functional networks to enforce best practices, scale delivery excellence, and ensure consistency across MissionForce engagements.
Your Impact
Serve as a trusted advisor to the client
Identify and lead internal strategic initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serve as an active contributor to the community’s overall knowledge base and expertise
Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value
Work collaboratively and having very strong communications skills, especially in teaching complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking across various levels of a client organization
Identify and proactively manage risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution
Manage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party partners
Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forward
Drive a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies to enable technologies including the Salesforce platform
Minimum Requirements
8+ years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture or consulting experience on the Salesforce Platform throughout the whole life cycle with repeated and demonstrable success
Expert in Salesforce configuration and architectural strategy, translating current-state complexity into clear target-state designs, closing capability gaps, and delivering solutions that enable achievement of critical business and mission outcomes.
Experience leading discovery sessions, defining business requirements, writing user stories and providing detailed system and functional designs
Experience in documenting business processes and wire-framing system designs using process flow diagram tools, UML, sequence diagrams, etc. as well as making recommendations for future state improved processes and system designs
Strong presentation skills; able to effectively present a point of view and clearly articulate the rationale to a variety of stakeholders
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience
A great listener with the ability to connect with people in diverse roles
Resourceful and innovative thinker who can work through and solve problems
Preferred Requirements
Must be Metro DC located
Active Secret level security clearance required
Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) or multiple Salesforce Core Architecture certifications
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.)
Experience in public sector digital transformation initiatives
Hands-on experience with Public Sector Solutions (“Agentforce Public Sector”)
Hands-on experience with Omni Studio
Ability to convey and convince customers of best practices at various levels within a large organization
Application design and development background
Travel may be required and varies depending on the client requirements
Qualification for this job is contingent upon acceptable results from a background investigation and your obtaining and maintaining the specific level of U.S. Government security clearance required for this role. U.S. citizenship (U.S. born or naturalized) required.
NOTE: By applying to the Solution Architect posting, recruiters and hiring managers across the organization hiring Solution Consultant will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams.