Salesforce Solution Architect

American Red Cross

Salesforce Solution Architect optimizing Salesforce solutions for Biomedical Services at American Red Cross. Leading solution design, implementing architectural best practices and driving innovation across platforms.

Posted 7/1/2026full-timeRemote • District of Columbia, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $165,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the architecture and optimization of Salesforce solutions across three Biomedical services products
Lead engineering best practices by establishing reusable design patterns, coding standards, architectural guardrails, and technical quality reviews to improve maintainability and reduce technical debt.
Partner with solution, integration, and cross-functional technology teams to develop scalable end-to-end solutions and ensure seamless integration across enterprise platforms.
Establishing and controlling technical definitions, rules, principles, and standards for teams
Assessing, reviewing and decisioning on all solution architecture designs
Delivering compelling presentations, architectural blueprint documents, environment management plan, development policy and participate in requirements-gathering workshops to influence the strategic direction of projects and lead business through solution design
Partnering end-to-end with Product Managers / Owners, Business Stakeholders and business analysts to understand customer requirements and process flows and translate them into Salesforce technology solutions
Own architecture documentation including solution blueprints, integration designs, architecture decision records (ADRs), and technical standards.
Translate business capabilities into scalable technical architectures and provide implementation guidance to engineering teams.
Develop proofs of concept and reference implementations to validate architectural approaches and accelerate delivery.
Provide hands-on technical involvement selectively to validate architecture and address complex design challenges
Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI and Salesforce platform innovations, to enhance business capabilities and drive continuous innovation.
Provide thought leadership in applying technology to transform our service delivery.
Stay up-to-date with Salesforce releases, features, and best practices, and proactively recommend improvements.
Drive architectural decisions across multiple teams. Present architecture decisions and roadmaps to senior leadership
Mentor senior developers and technical leads through architecture reviews, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
Designing solutions with operational monitoring, observability, logging, and production support considerations. Scope: Individual contributor that works under limited supervision. Apply subject matter knowledge. Capacity to understand specific needs or requirements to apply skills/knowledge.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Education: 4-year college degree or equivalent combination of education and experience Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field
10+ years of hands-on experience in Salesforce development and architecture
Expert level understanding of the Salesforce product Suite
Deep expertise in Salesforce architecture and code development for Sales, Service and Experience cloud
Strong prior development/Salesforce coding experience to be able to advise on aspects such as refactoring of code to reduce tech debt and code design patterns
Experience designing and delivering end-to-end Salesforce solutions for large, complex implementations
Experience leading solutions design sessions, ability to ask hard questions during those sessions and suggest best practices and efficient ways of implementing business processes
Strong hands-on experience in Salesforce development and configuration, including Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flow, APIs, platform events, batch processing, and integrations
Ability to define system landscape, identify gaps between current and desired future state
Understanding of Salesforce architecture, ability to design scalable solutions utilizing industry best practices
Familiarity with platform authentication patterns (SAML, SSO, OAuth)
Strong understanding and experience with Salesforce environment management, release management, deployment tools, code versioning best practices and deployment methodologies
Understanding of data sharing and visibility considerations and how they play into platform architecture
Strong analytical thinking and communication skills with the ability to rapidly learn complex business and product domains, collaborate across teams, and confidently drive alignment and decision-making
Salesforce Certified Application Architect or Salesforce Certified System Architect certification required.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, Dental Vision plans
Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
PTO: Starting at 19 days a year; based on type of job and tenure
Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays
401K with up to 6% match
Paid Family Leave
Employee Assistance
Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
Service Awards and recognition

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Hard Skills & Tools

Salesforce Product SuiteSalesforce ArchitectureEnd-to-End Salesforce SolutionsCode RefactoringIntegration DesignAPIsBatch ProcessingFlowPlatform EventsDeployment Methodologies

Soft Skills

Analytical ThinkingCommunication SkillsCollaborationMentoringLeadership

Certifications

Salesforce Certified Application ArchitectSalesforce Certified System Architect