Salesforce Technical Architect

Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) – Design Authority | MuleSoft

Location: India / Bengaluru preferred
Experience: 12+ years
Employment Type: Full-time
Role: Senior Salesforce Technical Architect / Enterprise Architect
Domain: Salesforce + MuleSoft + Enterprise Integration

About the Role

We are looking for a highly experienced Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) to serve as the Design Authority for enterprise Salesforce implementations and transformation programs.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for defining and governing the overall technical architecture across the Salesforce ecosystem, ensuring that solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, integration-ready, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

The role requires deep expertise in Salesforce architecture, enterprise integration, MuleSoft, data architecture, security, DevOps, and cloud technologies, along with the ability to work directly with CXOs, enterprise architects, product owners, and senior engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities1. Architecture & Design Authority

• Act as the Design Authority and final technical authority for Salesforce solution architecture.
• Define end-to-end architecture for complex Salesforce transformation programs.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, patterns, and technology guardrails.
• Review and approve solution designs, technical specifications, and architecture decisions.
• Conduct architecture reviews and ensure adherence to enterprise architecture standards.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt, scalability constraints, and remediation strategies.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple Salesforce workstreams and implementation teams.

2. Salesforce Architecture

• Design complex Salesforce solutions across:
• Sales Cloud
• Service Cloud
• Experience Cloud
• Platform
• Data Cloud
• Marketing Cloud
• Revenue Cloud / CPQ where applicable
• Define appropriate use of configuration, Flow, Apex, Lightning Web Components and platform services.
• Design scalable data models and security architecture.
• Define Salesforce governor-limit and performance strategies.
• Establish patterns for reusable Salesforce components and services.
• Guide teams on Salesforce best practices and architectural trade-offs.

3. MuleSoft & Enterprise Integration

• Design and govern enterprise integration architecture using MuleSoft / Anypoint Platform.
• Define API-led connectivity strategies across Salesforce and enterprise applications.
• Design System APIs, Process APIs and Experience APIs.
• Define integration patterns for:
• Salesforce ↔ ERP
• Salesforce ↔ CRM
• Salesforce ↔ HRMS
• Salesforce ↔ legacy systems
• Salesforce ↔ external SaaS platforms
• Establish API governance, security, versioning, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Evaluate synchronous vs. asynchronous integration approaches.
• Define event-driven architectures where appropriate using platforms such as MuleSoft, Platform Events, CDC and messaging systems.

4. Enterprise Architecture

• Translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures.
• Develop High-Level Designs (HLD) and Low-Level Designs (LLD).
• Create architecture diagrams, data flows, integration flows, and system interaction models.
• Define technology selection and evaluate build-vs-buy decisions.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Cloud Architects, Security Architects and Data Architects.
• Ensure Salesforce architecture integrates effectively with the broader enterprise technology landscape.

5. Security & Compliance

• Define Salesforce security architecture covering:
• Identity and Access Management
• SSO
• OAuth
• Profiles and Permission Sets
• Sharing architecture
• Encryption
• Data protection
• Work closely with security teams to ensure compliance with enterprise security standards.
• Ensure integration architectures follow appropriate authentication, authorization and data-protection practices.

6. Data Architecture

• Define enterprise Salesforce data architecture and data governance.
• Design data migration and synchronization strategies.
• Address data volume, performance and data-quality challenges.
• Define master-data and system-of-record strategies.
• Design integrations involving large data volumes and complex data synchronization.

7. DevOps & Delivery Governance

• Establish Salesforce DevOps and release-management standards.
• Define CI/CD strategies and deployment architectures.
• Work with development teams on source control, branching and release strategies.
• Review deployment risks and technical dependencies.
• Establish development, testing, staging and production architecture standards.

8. Technical Leadership

• Mentor Salesforce Architects, Senior Developers and Technical Leads.
• Provide architectural guidance to distributed engineering teams.
• Challenge technical assumptions and evaluate alternative solutions.
• Participate in technical workshops, design reviews and client presentations.
• Communicate complex architecture concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required QualificationsMandatory

• Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) certification.
• 12+ years of overall technology experience.
• Extensive Salesforce architecture experience.
• Proven experience acting as a Design Authority / Architecture Lead on large enterprise programs.
• Strong experience designing complex Salesforce ecosystems.
• Significant experience with MuleSoft / Anypoint Platform.
• Strong understanding of API-led connectivity and enterprise integration architecture.
• Excellent understanding of Salesforce data, security and integration architecture.
• Strong experience with enterprise architecture principles and design patterns.
• Experience working with senior business and technology stakeholders.

Salesforce Expertise

Strong knowledge of:

• Salesforce Platform Architecture
• Apex
• Lightning Web Components
• Salesforce APIs
• REST / SOAP
• Platform Events
• Change Data Capture
• Salesforce security model
• Data architecture
• Large Data Volume Architecture
• Salesforce integration patterns
• Governor limits and performance architecture
• DevOps and CI/CD
• Salesforce DX

MuleSoft Expertise

Strong experience with:

• MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
• Anypoint Studio
• API Manager
• API Designer
• Runtime Manager
• Anypoint Exchange
• API-led connectivity
• System / Process / Experience APIs
• RAML
• OAuth / API security
• API lifecycle management
• Integration patterns
• Error handling and monitoring
• Enterprise integration governance

Preferred Certifications

• Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) – Mandatory
• MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect
• MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect
• Salesforce Certified Application Architect
• Salesforce Certified System Architect
• Salesforce Certified Integration Architect
• Salesforce Certified Data Architect
• Salesforce Certified Sharing and Visibility Architect
• AWS / Azure / GCP certifications are an advantage

Key Competencies

• Enterprise Architecture
• Solution Architecture
• Salesforce Architecture
• MuleSoft Architecture
• API Architecture
• Integration Architecture
• Data Architecture
• Security Architecture
• Cloud Architecture
• Technical Governance
• Architecture Review
• Design Authority
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Leadership

What Success Looks Like

The successful candidate will:

• Own the technical architecture and design authority function for Salesforce programs.
• Ensure architectural consistency across multiple teams and workstreams.
• Build scalable Salesforce and MuleSoft architectures capable of supporting enterprise-scale workloads.
• Reduce architectural risk and technical debt.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns and standards.
• Provide clear technical direction to engineering teams.
• Act as the senior technical interface between the business, enterprise architecture, engineering, security and delivery teams.

Ideal Candidate Profile

We are looking for someone who is more than a Salesforce solution designer.

The ideal candidate is a CTA-level architect who can own the complete architecture, challenge solution designs, make enterprise-level technology decisions, govern Salesforce and MuleSoft integration architecture, and operate as the Design Authority for large and complex transformation programs.

CTA + Salesforce Enterprise Architecture + MuleSoft + Design Authority experience is essential.

Pay: ₹4,000,000.00 - ₹5,500,000.00 per year

Application Question(s):

• Are you a certified Technical architect?

Work Location: Remote