Senior Solutions Architect (Salesforce)

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career. Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is: Grade: Technical 411 Pay Range: $161,000.00 - $249,500.00 **Job Description** The Senior Solutions Architect designs, implements, maintains, and solves extremely complex enterprise-wide technical projects and solutions with an expertise in a particular technology. This role uses discretion to fully scope current systems and applies technical proficiency, creativity, and collaboration to recommend enhancements and solutions to ensure flexibility, resilience, scalability, and high performance of complex technical problems. The Senior Solutions Architect is recognized as a master within the technical discipline and will possess extensive experience in building robust systems and strong collaboration, design, and negotiation skills to align technology solutions with business objectives. This role will identify pain points and use independent judgement to design, modify, and recommend technical solutions to solve complex company problems. The Senior Solutions Architect will be deeply involved in daily cross-functional work, people training, collaboration, and team influencing, and regularly interacts with both stakeholders, subject matter experts, and executive leadership. Join a team that is solving complex, enterprise-scale challenges and shaping the future of Salesforce architecture. As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will design and deliver high-impact solutions that drive scalability, performance, and long-term flexibility across critical systems. You will partner closely with business and technology leaders to translate strategy into resilient, enterprise-grade solutions. ## ## Impact In this role, you will serve as a recognized technical leader, influencing architecture decisions and guiding teams through complex Salesforce implementations. You will identify opportunities for optimization, define future-state architecture, and ensure the delivery of secure, high-performing, and scalable systems that align with organizational goals. ## ## What You’ll Do - Design and implement scalable Salesforce architecture solutions that meet complex enterprise requirements - Translate business needs into flexible, resilient technical designs across Salesforce and integrated systems - Define current, iterative, and future-state architecture strategies for large-scale initiatives - Provide expert-level technical guidance to cross-functional teams and leadership - Lead solution evaluations, including tools, platforms, and vendors, ensuring best-fit decisions - Mentor and develop engineers and technical teams, elevating overall Salesforce capabilities - Drive alignment across stakeholders by communicating complex technical concepts in a clear, actionable way ## ## What You’ll Bring - ⁠10 years of relev…