# Salesforce Application Architect

**Company:** [Stafford Gray](https://jobs.workable.com/companies/ijubpNRZg1hKDHZC9ns8cE.md)
**Location:** Lansing, United States
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Contract

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## 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