Salesforce Solutions Architect - Certified - Houston

Are you a strategic Salesforce architect who can connect business goals, enterprise technology, and scalable solution design? Do you enjoy partnering with executives, influencing critical technology decisions, and developing roadmaps that turn complex business needs into sustainable enterprise solutions? The role of the Salesforce Solutions Architect is to lead architecture strategy, solution design, and technical roadmap development for complex enterprise initiatives. This position is well suited for an experienced Salesforce Solutions Architect, or an Enterprise Architect with strong Salesforce expertise—who can evaluate the broader technology environment while ensuring Salesforce solutions align with business objectives, integration requirements, security standards, and long-term organizational goals. You will work closely with client leadership, business stakeholders, delivery teams, and technical specialists to guide architecture decisions across Salesforce and connected enterprise platforms. Your leadership will help ensure solutions are scalable, secure, integrated, and positioned to support continued digital transformation. About FormativGroup FormativGroup is a technology consulting and implementation partner that helps organizations modernize platforms, improve operations, and deliver meaningful digital transformation. Our teams bring deep expertise across Salesforce, data and analytics, software engineering, cloud technology, enterprise platforms, and business transformation. As a Salesforce Summit Partner, FormativGroup combines technical expertise, industry knowledge, and a collaborative approach to deliver solutions that create measurable value for our clients. We believe successful transformation begins with strong partnerships, practical innovation, and talented professionals who understand how technology supports broader business goals. What You’ll Do Develop and maintain enterprise technology roadmaps that align Salesforce capabilities with business priorities and digital transformation objectives. Lead solution architecture and technical design activities across Salesforce and connected enterprise platforms. Evaluate business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and sustainable architecture solutions. Partner with client executives, technology leaders, and business stakeholders to guide key architecture and design decisions. Define end-to-end solution designs, including application architecture, system integrations, data flows, security, and platform dependencies. Assess existing technology environments and recommend modernization, optimization, and platform-alignment strategies. Coordinate architecture activities across multiple technologies, delivery teams, vendors, and project workstreams. Establish architecture principles, technical standards, design patterns, and governance processes. Review proposed solutions to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, Salesforce best practices, and long-term technology strategy. Provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle, from discovery and planning through implementation and deployment. Identify architecture risks, platform limitations, integration dependencies, and technical tradeoffs early in the delivery process. Facilitate architecture workshops and communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences. Support solution estimates, implementation planning, technical documentation, and delivery-team alignment. Mentor architects, developers, consultants, and other technical team members on architecture practices and Salesforce capabilities. Remain current on Salesforce platform developments, cloud technologies, enterprise integration patterns, and emerging architecture practices. What You’ll Bring 8+ years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise architecture, or technology leadership, including responsibility for complex enterprise solution design and technical strateg…