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Salesforce Application Architect

Stafford Gray

# Salesforce Application Architect

> Stafford Gray · Lansing, United States (Hybrid) · Contract · Posted 2026-11-09

**Salary:** Up to USD 132,000

**Workplace:** hybrid

## Description

Stafford Gray is seeking an experienced Salesforce Application Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise Salesforce solutions for a large public-sector health and human services program. You’ll help modernize mission-critical case management systems that serve thousands of users, moving legacy applications onto a modern Salesforce platform built on Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Field Service Lightning.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You’ll set architectural direction, guide development teams, and make sure solutions are secure, scalable, and built to Salesforce best practices.

**What You’ll Do**

  • Lead end-to-end architecture and technical design of Salesforce solutions supporting case management, field service operations, and user engagement
  • Run org health checks and platform assessments, and deliver actionable recommendations
  • Participate in design and discovery sessions and promote Salesforce Well-Architected principles
  • Translate complex business requirements into maintainable solutions alongside business analysts, product owners, and stakeholders
  • Oversee proofs of concept to validate technical feasibility and business value
  • Plan and coordinate integrations with external partners, other agencies, and hosting platforms
  • Design and implement application security that meets agency policy and regulatory standards
  • Lead impact analysis for changes driven by legislation, policy, or business process updates
  • Mentor and provide technical leadership to development teams of employees and contractors
  • Support release readiness, backlog prioritization, and environment management across dev, test, UAT, and production
  • Support 24/7 operations of a high-availability, statewide production system

## Requirements

**Required Qualifications**

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with Salesforce, SQL, Java, and web services development
  • **2–3 active Salesforce certifications** (required)
  • 5+ years gathering and analyzing business and technical requirements with stakeholders
  • Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, including pipeline-as-code, branching strategies, automated code reviews, and automated testing
  • Strong ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

**Preferred Qualifications**

  • Salesforce Architect certification (Application Architect, System Architect, or CTA track)
  • Enterprise-scale Salesforce implementation experience
  • Database-related certifications
  • Oracle SQL development, including query tuning and performance optimization
  • 5+ years in Agile development environments
  • DevOps experience with automated builds, regression/smoke testing, and multi-environment deployments
  • Experience with Field Service Lightning
  • Public-sector, health and human services, or case management experience

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