Salesforce Solutions Architect with Marketing Cloud

Position Overview

Join Kelley Austin, a highgrowth Salesforce consultancy now part of Perficient. You'll get the best of both worlds: the energy and impact of a boutique team with a booming practice, backed by the scale, clients, and career pathways of a global digital consultancy. Our Salesforce + MuleSoft team helps global brands create connected, data-driven experiences that drive enterprise-wide transformation. As a Salesforce Solution Architect with expertise in Data, you will work on innovative, high-quality solutions and be a key player on the Business Unit Senior Leadership team.

Perficient is the global AI-first consultancy, empowering employees to build AI fluency and drive innovation. Location: United States (preference for candidates living near a Perficient office)

Salary: $92,118 to $202,730 (base salary range; additional compensation factors apply)

Key Responsibilities

• Own and aggressively drive forward specific areas of technology architecture; provide architectural solutions and designs for project execution teams.
• Provide architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for the Salesforce domain.
• Write user stories and operate as a business analyst when necessary.
• Lead projects within architecture by collaborating with Product Owners and Business Analysts to understand functional requirements and align cross-functional teams for design, development, testing, and release.
• Participate in project and solution estimation and team structure definition.
• Develop Proof-of-Concept projects to validate new architectures and solutions.
• Support multiple Agile Scrum teams with planning, scoping, and creation of technical solutions through to continuous delivery to production.
• Liaise with offshore teams and clients to resolve technical dependencies, issues, and risks.
• Mentor and provide architectural guidance to multiple teams building innovative applications.
• Drive common vision, practices, and capabilities across teams.
• Engage with business stakeholders to integrate business knowledge with technical solutions.
• Collaborate with Technical Architects and technical staff to determine the most appropriate technical strategies and designs.
• Demonstrate broad technical leadership with the ability to influence and drive change beyond the immediate team.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience with Salesforce.
• At least two project implementations exploiting the full capabilities of the Salesforce platforms.
• Recent experience (within the last two years) implementing Salesforce solutions.
• Deepening mastery across Data Cloud, Agentforce, and the broader Salesforce ecosystem with a continuously inquisitive mindset.
• Solid understanding of delivery methodology and proven ability to lead implementation teams.
• Experience in project and solution estimation and team structure definition.
• Up-to-date knowledge of architectural trends and the ability to anticipate market and technical directions.
• Proven experience in defining new architectures and leading projects from an architectural standpoint.
• Demonstrated success managing complex and large consulting projects.
• Proficiency in authoring, editing, and presenting technical documents.
• Strong ability to elicit requirements and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• A desire to mentor junior team members and help develop their skills.
• Experience working on multiple concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support data-informed decision making.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating Data Cloud with Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, or Experience Cloud; additional exposure to Marketing Cloud APIs, Agentforce models, or real-time personalization is a plus.
• Familiarity with AI-enhanced platforms is a plus.
• Expert-level knowledge of Salesforce with proficiency in two or more Clouds, including hands-on experience with Data tools.

Benefits & Perks

• Benefits: Please refer to our benefits overview for detailed information on medical, dental, vision, retirement plans, and other perks.