Lead Architect

Salesforce

. Serve as a strategic architecture advisor across the full customer lifecycle, spanning presales, solution shaping, delivery guidance, and post-sales advisory.

Posted 4/25/2026full-timeMumbai • 🇮🇳 IndiaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a strategic architecture advisor across the full customer lifecycle, spanning presales, solution shaping, delivery guidance, and post-sales advisory.
Help customers translate complex business transformation goals into scalable, secure, and implementable enterprise solutions across MuleSoft, Salesforce, and adjacent enterprise platforms.
Define target-state architectures, guide integration and platform strategy, and influence critical technology decisions.
Lead technical discovery sessions, architecture workshops, design reviews, and customer strategy discussions.
Partner with sales, account, and delivery teams to shape complex opportunities, respond to RFPs and RFIs, support effort estimation and feasibility analysis, and define differentiated technical strategies for high-value engagements.
Present solution direction with credibility to both executive and technical audiences.
Define high-level and detailed architectures using API-led connectivity, event-driven and service-based integration patterns, data movement strategies, and interoperability models.
Create compelling solution narratives, reference architectures, architecture decision points, and proof-of-concept approaches that clearly connect business outcomes to technology design.
Review and validate architectures for scalability, resilience, security, performance, maintainability, supportability, and operational fit.
Guide integration and architecture strategies across enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, SAP, Workday, data platforms, and cloud ecosystems.
Work closely with implementation and delivery teams to ensure proposed architectures are practical, implementable, and aligned with customer expectations.
Coach architects, consultants, and delivery teams on integration architecture, Salesforce architecture fundamentals, API strategy, design standards, and architecture review practices.
Build trusted relationships with customer executives, enterprise architects, program sponsors, and technical leaders.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise integration, technical consulting, or large-scale platform implementation roles.
Deep expertise in enterprise integration architecture, API-led connectivity, system interoperability, data movement, and modern architecture patterns for complex enterprise environments.
Strong hands-on and architectural experience with MuleSoft as a primary integration platform, including API strategy, runtime architecture, platform governance, and implementation best practices.
Strong knowledge of Salesforce and Salesforce architecture, including platform fundamentals, integration patterns, security and access design, governance considerations, data architecture awareness, and solution design best practices for enterprise implementations.
Proven customer-facing experience in presales, advisory, or architecture leadership roles, with the ability to shape opportunities, conduct discovery, develop proposals, and guide strategic technical decisions.
Strong understanding of cloud-based architectural principles, including SaaS and PaaS models, multitenant platforms, integration patterns, and enterprise application design considerations.
Ability to identify technical design risks, define governance strategies, and guide teams toward scalable and supportable implementation outcomes.
Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders and demonstrate strong executive presence.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Opportunity to shape enterprise integration and platform strategy for leading organizations undergoing complex transformation initiatives.
Access to advanced training, certification pathways, and ongoing professional development across integration, cloud, and enterprise architecture domains.
Inclusive and high-performance environment where architecture leadership influences both customer success and internal practice evolution.
Exposure to strategic customer programs, cross-functional leadership, and opportunities to build thought leadership in integration and platform architecture.
Competitive compensation, benefits, and adaptive working arrangements that support sustainable high performance.

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Hard Skills & Tools

solution architectureenterprise integrationAPI-led connectivitydata movementMuleSoftSalesforce architecturecloud-based architectureintegration patternssystem interoperabilityarchitecture review practices

Soft Skills

communication skillsfacilitation skillspresentation skillscustomer-facing experiencestrategic decision-makingrelationship buildingcoachingcollaborationexecutive presenceproblem-solving