Lead Architect

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Sales Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. Location: Mumbai, India Experience Level: Lead (12 years) About the Role We are seeking a visionary Lead Architect to join our Strategic Excellence team. In this high-impact role, you will serve as a strategic architecture advisor across the full customer lifecycle, spanning presales, solution shaping, delivery guidance, and post-sales advisory. You will help customers translate complex business transformation goals into scalable, secure, and implementable enterprise solutions across MuleSoft, Salesforce, and adjacent enterprise platforms. As a trusted technical authority, you will bridge the gap between business ambition and execution reality by defining target-state architectures, guiding integration and platform strategy, and influencing critical technology decisions. This role requires strong enterprise integration expertise, deep understanding of API-led and system-to-system architecture, and working knowledge of Salesforce and Salesforce architecture, including platform capabilities, integration patterns, governance, security, and enterprise design considerations. You will also play a visible leadership role in mentoring teams, strengthening architecture quality, and shaping reusable standards across the practice. Key Responsibilities Strategic Architecture Advisory : Lead technical discovery sessions, architecture workshops, design reviews, and customer strategy discussions. Translate business transformation priorities into robust solution architectures spanning integration, platform modernization, and enterprise application connectivity. Presales and Opportunity Shaping: 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. Integration and Salesforce Architecture: Define high-level and detailed architectures using API-led connectivity, event-driven and service-based integration patterns, data movement strategies, and interoperability models. Apply Salesforce architecture knowledge across platform capabilities, integration approaches, security and sharing considerations, data model alignment, environment strategy, and enterprise architecture best practices, with MuleSoft as the primary integration platform and Informatica where relevant for ETL, data integration, or migration use cases. Visionary Solution Design: Create compelling solution narratives, reference architectures, architecture decision points, and proof-of-concept approaches that clearly connect business outcomes to technology design. Build proposals and architecture recommendations that resonate with C-suite stakeholders as well as engineering and delivery teams. Architecture Governance and Quality: Review and validate architectures for scalability, resilience, security, performance, maintainability, supportability, and operational fit. Identify design risks early, define governance approaches, and help teams apply standards that improve long-term platform health and implementation success. ... (truncated, view full listing at source)