Salesforce Technical Architect - Life Sciences

About the role

Salesforce is looking for a Technical Architect focused on the Life Sciences industry. The role leads the technical design and implementation of Salesforce solutions, including the Life Sciences Cloud (Health Cloud), and works closely with sales and delivery teams. The candidate must combine deep Salesforce expertise with strong domain knowledge of pharmaceuticals, biotech, medtech or healthcare providers, and ensure compliance with regulations such as HIPAA and GxP.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead for 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 optimisation.
• Lead a team of developers across multi-cloud implementations, integrating Health Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud and OmniStudio.
• Lead functional and technical workshops and act as trusted advisor to clients' enterprise architects and business partners.
• Negotiate solutions with customers and partners, guide them on digital transformation with Salesforce Industries, and build business processes with native Salesforce technology.
• Research and implement AppExchange apps and upgrades, and build custom enterprise applications integrated with other systems.
• Work with Delivery Managers and Solution Architects, highlight risks proactively and see issues through to completion.

Required profile

• 10+ years of experience developing technology solutions.
• 3+ years of client-facing projects in systems development and business consulting.
• Proven experience architecting enterprise Salesforce solutions in life sciences, Veeva or healthcare.
• Strong understanding of HIPAA, GxP, PHI, HL7 and FHIR.
• Experience in healthcare domains preferred.

Required skills

• Integration Architecture, Platform Security, Identity and Access Management, Sharing and Visibility, Data Architecture and Management, Architectural Design Patterns, Apex Design Patterns (must have)
• Apex, Triggers, Lightning Flows, Lightning, LWC, and modern web/mobile technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web Components)
• Salesforce certification preferred (Admin, Developer, Application Architect, System Architect); OmniStudio Developer/Consultant and Health Cloud certification good to have