Salesforce Architect
VirtusaChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Posted May 18, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Virtusa is a global product and platform engineering firm that partners with enterprises to accelerate growth, profitability, and sustainability through domain‑driven solutions. The company blends strategy, design, and engineering—supported by deep expertise at the intersection of industry, business, and technology—to deliver tangible business impact. Virtusa’s service portfolio spans IT consulting, digital transformation, AI advisory, cloud and security, data analytics, and managed services across sectors such as financial services, healthcare, media, and manufacturing. Its distinctive value lies in combining industry‑specific insight with cutting‑edge technology to create next‑generation experiences that drive measurable outcomes.
Job Description
Design and own end-to-end Salesforce solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards, drive technical discussions, and lead high/low-level design discussions.
Requirements
- Lead high/low-level design discussions
- Translating business requirements into scalable technical blueprints
- Drive decisions on: Flow vs Apex vs LWC, Sync vs Async, On-platform vs external processing
- Ensure solutions are optimized for scalability, performance, and Salesforce governor limits
- Strong knowledge of Apex design patterns, Salesforce data model, security framework, and declarative framework
- Design robust data models: custom objects, relationships, indexing strategies, and data archival
- Handle LDV scenarios: skinny tables, indexed fields, SOQL optimization, archiving
- Implement and govern Salesforce security model: Profiles, Permission Sets, Permission Set Groups, OWD, Sharing Rules, FLS
- Work with IT CRM and business teams to analyze requirements, design solutions, and plan releases
- Define and enforce coding standards, design patterns, and best practices
- Lead teams and drive technical discussions
- Collaborate with developers, BAs, Architects, and IT SMEs
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines in DevOps
- Design integration patterns using MuleSoft or equivalent
- Define API strategies: REST, SOAP, Platform Events, CDC
- Agentforce: Topics, Sub-agents, and Prompt Design
- Prompt Builder for AI-powered flows
- Data Cloud: ingestion, harmonization, identity resolution
- External data patterns and RAG in Salesforce AI context
- Experience with Einstein AI/Prompt Builder
