Senior Salesforce Technical Architect - Life Sciences

About the role

Salesforce is looking for a Senior Technical Architect for its Life Sciences practice. The role designs and delivers complex, enterprise-scale Salesforce solutions for customers in the health industry, becoming a deep expert in Health Cloud and related products. The architect works with sales, delivery and client teams, engages with potential customers during presales, and leads the technical design and implementation while ensuring compliance with regulations such as HIPAA, GxP and PHI.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the senior technical architect for Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud implementations, including Health Cloud and related products.
• Design scalable, secure, high-performance solutions aligned with compliance standards (HIPAA, PHI, GxP).
• Define and oversee data models, security architecture, API integrations (FHIR/HL7) and performance optimization.
• Lead a team of architects focused on Health industry clients using Health Cloud, Service Cloud, Sales Cloud and Experience Cloud.
• Drive Enterprise AI architecture by designing and integrating predictive and generative AI solutions within custom Salesforce environments.
• Lead technical design sessions, document solutions, and use AI tools to review architectural assumptions and simulate edge cases.
• Participate in pre-sales activities such as discovery, proof-of-concept development, estimation and release planning.
• Work with Salesforce Product teams, lead workshops, and guide customers and partners on digital transformation with the Salesforce platform.
• Research and recommend AppExchange applications, build custom enterprise applications, and integrate Salesforce with other systems.

Required profile

• Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) credential (must have).
• 14+ years of experience developing technology solutions, including 5+ years in client-facing, increasingly responsible roles.
• Proven experience architecting enterprise-level Salesforce solutions in life sciences, Veeva or healthcare.
• Deep understanding of compliance requirements (HIPAA, GxP, PHI, HL7, FHIR).
• Expertise in Salesforce Life Sciences, Health Cloud, Sales/Service/Experience Cloud and Vlocity OmniStudio (must have).
• Expertise in healthcare providers, payers, life sciences, pharma, medical devices, public health and insurance (must have).
• Experience as a technical or enterprise architect on a healthcare transformation project preferred.

Required skills

• Integration architecture, REST and SOAP APIs, and knowledge of governor limits.
• Git, Bitbucket and CI/CD workflows.
• Apex design patterns, LWC, Lightning Flows and modern web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web Components).
• Platform security, identity and access management, sharing and visibility, data architecture and management, and architectural design patterns.
• Strong communication, presentation and leadership skills.