SFDC Solution Architect

At Air Products, we reimagine what’s possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together – where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter – we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities.

Reimagine What’s Possible 

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture Ownership & Standards
• Design and validate a scalable, efficient, and sustainable Salesforce architecture for multi-cloud implementations.
• Evaluate proposed solutions for maintainability, extensibility, and long-term viability.
• Align all architectural decisions with the Salesforce product roadmap, enterprise architecture principles, and internal standards.
• Define configuration standards, design patterns, and guardrails for functional and technical teams.
• Cross Functional Solution Design
• Review and approve functional designs across workstreams (Sales, Service, CLM, Integration, Data, RFP, etc.).
• Translate business strategies and requirements into holistic Salesforce solutions that balance user experience, performance, and compliance.
• Ensure alignment between technical teams, functional SMEs, and business owners to deliver solutions on schedule.
• Integration & Data Architecture Collaboration
• Partner with the Integration Lead to design robust integration architecture with SAP, Agiloft, Workday, and other enterprise platforms.
• Validate data flows, API usage, middleware strategy, and integration patterns.
• Support data strategy activities, including data migration, mapping, and cleansing (in collaboration with Data Lead and SI).
• Governance, Quality, & Technical Leadership
• Provide architectural oversight throughout discovery, design, build, testing, and cutover phases.
• Review solution designs to ensure adherence to best practices, security frameworks, and change control processes.
• Support DevOps alignment, including environment strategy, release sequencing, and deployment governance.
• Guide the development and configuration teams toward “stay out of the box” principles when possible.
• Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement
• Act as the client’s architectural counterpart to the System Integrator’s solution architect.
• Participate in workshops, design reviews, RFP evaluations, and architecture decision records.
• Communicate architectural risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to program leadership and executive stakeholders.
  
  

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Expertise

• 7+ years architecting solutions on Salesforce (Sales Cloud required; Service, Experience, CLM a plus).
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce data model, metadata architecture, integration options, API limits, and platform constraints.
• Experience with multi cloud architectures and largescale enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with integration platforms, middleware patterns, and enterprise data flows.
  
  

Functional & Program Skills

• Ability to interpret global business processes and translate them into future state designs.
• Experience working with a System Integrator and managing design alignment from the client side.
• Strong understanding of governance, DevOps, environments, and release management.
  
  

Soft Skills

• Exceptional communication and executive level presentation abilities.
• Strong influencing skills across technical and non‑technical teams.
• Ability to balance strategic architecture with practical delivery constraints.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce certifications (e.g., Application Architect, System Architect, CTA, Sales & Service Cloud Consultant).
• Experience with CLM solutions such as Agiloft or similar technology.
• Background supporting global, multiregional Salesforce deployments.
  
  

Founded in 1940, Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together, we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine what’s possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities, and the world.