Salesforce Technical Architect
Role Overview
Horizontal Digital seeks a Salesforce Technical Architect for a large-scale, integration-heavy Salesforce programme for an enterprise client in Saudi Arabia.
The hands-on player/coach owns technical architecture across Salesforce and connected systems, guides delivery teams, and works across functional, technical, integration, and data workstreams.
The role is based in Saudi Arabia and may be located in Riyadh or Jeddah.
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Role overview
Horizontal Digital seeks a Salesforce Technical Architect for a large-scale, integration-heavy Salesforce programme for an enterprise client in Saudi Arabia.
The hands-on player/coach owns technical architecture across Salesforce and connected systems, guides delivery teams, and works across functional, technical, integration, and data workstreams.
The role is based in Saudi Arabia and may be located in Riyadh or Jeddah.
What you'll do
- Design and own end-to-end Salesforce architecture across Sales, Service, Experience, Marketing, Data Cloud, and industry-specific clouds.
- Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions with business stakeholders and functional leads.
- Design integrations with external systems using APIs, middleware, and event-driven approaches.
- Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for scalability, security, and performance.
- Guide development teams through design reviews, best practices, and code quality oversight.
- Define API standards and data models, including canonical models.
- Support pre-sales solutioning, effort estimation, and architecture advice.
- Maintain technical documentation such as ERDs, sequence diagrams, data mappings, and architecture blueprints.
- Present technical design rationale, drive decisions, validate architecture hands-on, and maintain Architecture Decision Records.
- Design data migration strategies across Salesforce clouds and validate accuracy and completeness.
- Use AI tools such as Claude Code to accelerate delivery while validating and safely rolling out changes.
Experience and qualifications
- Have 8+ years of client-facing consulting experience focused on Salesforce architecture and solution design.
- Have 8+ years of hands-on experience with Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Data Cloud, and MuleSoft; Marketing Cloud is good to have.
- Be fluent in spoken and written Arabic and English.
- Be based in or willing to relocate to Riyadh or Jeddah.
- Have experience on cross-functional teams delivering secure, scalable solutions.
- Have strong system documentation skills, including ERDs, process flows, and sequence diagrams.
- Have proven experience designing scalable integrations with external systems.
- Hold Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Agentforce certifications, plus one or more Salesforce Architect domain certifications.
- Have agile experience, including estimation and planning across multidisciplinary teams.
Additional useful experience
- Kafka or Confluent event streaming, including consumer groups, Schema Registry, and Avro or JSON serialization, is a plus.
- Data transformation and mapping from nested JSON or EDIFACT into canonical relational models is a plus.
- Experience with Data Cloud, MuleSoft, Field Service, or Revenue Cloud is a plus.
- Previous delivery experience in Saudi Arabia or the wider GCC is a plus.
KSA benefits
- 22 days of holiday and comprehensive medical insurance for the employee, spouse, and children.
- Visa for the employee, spouse, and children.
- Flexible office times and work from home twice per week.
- Remote work from a location of choice for two weeks a year.
Work arrangement
- The role offers work from home twice per week and two weeks of remote work from a location of choice each year.
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