The Salesforce Platform Architect will oversee the Salesforce architecture, promoting best practices, leading solution design, and ensuring technical governance while mentoring teams and managing integrations.
Company Overview:
Keyloop bridges the gap between dealers, manufacturers, technology suppliers, and car buyers. We empower automotive dealers and manufacturers to fully embrace digital transformation by creating innovative technology that enhances the car selling process for our customers and improves the car buying and ownership experience for theirs.
We leverage cutting-edge platforms like Salesforce to connect our clients’ systems, departments, and sites. Our open technology platform is shaping the future of the industry, using data to help clients increase efficiency, profitability, and customer satisfaction. Want to be part of it?
As a Salesforce Platform Architect, you will be the technical champion for our Salesforce ecosystem. You’ll promote and govern IT principles, standards, and architecture & design frameworks while shaping Salesforce-centric digital transformation strategies across the enterprise.
Main Duties / Responsibilities
- Serve as the Architectural Authority for the Salesforce platform, guiding internal teams and engaging with vendors, SIs, and external Salesforce communities.
- Champion Salesforce best practices and platform governance, developing and maintaining architecture principles, standards, reusable design patterns, and development guidelines.
- Lead solution design workshops and technical discovery sessions with stakeholders, product owners, and business analysts to define scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
- Build and maintain the Salesforce architecture roadmap, aligning with enterprise strategy and upcoming Salesforce capabilities (e.g., AI, MuleSoft, Tableau).
- Provide technical leadership and governance across Salesforce projects, ensuring alignment with the Salesforce Center of Excellence (CoE) and enterprise architecture strategy.
- Drive innovation by evaluating new Salesforce technologies and AppExchange solutions to solve emerging business needs.
- Proactively reduce technical debt, driving continuous platform improvement and optimization.
- Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to GDPR, ISO, and internal data protection policies.
- Govern cross-functional and enterprise integrations, acting as Salesforce Design Authority and ensuring seamless interaction with other platforms.
- Mentor and coach Salesforce architects, developers, and administrators, fostering a strong technical community and enforcing adherence to standards.
- Maintain up-to-date technical documentation, including solution architecture diagrams, integration specs, and governance policies.
Essential Skills & Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience architecting and delivering Salesforce solutions at scale across Sales (including CPQ), Service, Marketing, or Experience Clouds.
- Deep hands-on expertise with Salesforce technologies: Apex (incl. FFLib), Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flow Builder, SOQL/SOSL, Platform Events, and API integrations (REST/SOAP).
- Strong understanding of Salesforce security architecture, performance optimization, and data modeling.
- Proven track record of leading enterprise-level projects and delivering impactful business outcomes.
- Skilled in Force.com, Heroku, and the broader Salesforce ecosystem including Partner/AppExchange solutions.
- Experience in both Agile and Waterfall development methodologies.
- Proficient in enterprise architecture disciplines: integration design, relational database modeling, web services, and data migration.
- Strong communicator with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value for a wide range of stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to influence strategic decisions, align cross-functional teams, and drive platform adoption.
- Salesforce certifications strongly preferred: Application Architect, System Architect, B2C Solution Architect, Integration Architect.
Why join us?
We’re on a journey to become market leaders in our space – and with that comes incredible opportunities. Collaborate and learn from Salesforce experts and innovators from around the world. Work with cutting-edge platform capabilities and develop your Salesforce architecture career in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
An Inclusive Environment to Thrive:
We’re committed to fostering an inclusive work environment—one that respects all dimensions of diversity. We celebrate different employees and lifestyles every day, not just on key days.
Be Rewarded for Your Efforts:
We believe performance drives reward. Our pay and benefits are designed to attract and retain top talent. We support ongoing development—encouraging certifications, training, and career progression in a collaborative, supportive culture.
Top Skills
Apex
Flow Builder
Force.Com
Heroku
Lightning Web Components
Lwc
Mulesoft
Rest
Salesforce
Soap
SOQL
Sosl
Tableau
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