Salesforce Architect - Payment domain

Job title: Salesforce Architect - Payment domain

Location: Morristown, NJ

Contract/ full time

Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership

● Own end-to-end architecture for Salesforce Experience Cloud and enterprise

integrations.

● Define scalable, secure, high-performing solutions aligned with enterprise standards.

● Lead architecture reviews, technical design sessions, and implementation planning.

● Establish integration, security, and data architecture patterns.

● Provide technical leadership to architects, technical leads, developers, and vendor

teams.

● Drive design decisions and resolve complex technical challenges.

Payments & Customer Portal Expertise

● Design and implement customer-facing payment capabilities within Salesforce

Experience Cloud.

● Architect integrations with payment gateways, processors, and ERP platforms.

● Define solutions supporting invoice payments, payment status tracking, transaction

history, ACH and credit card processing, and customer self-service capabilities.

● Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with PCI-compliance requirements.

● Evaluate and recommend payment architecture approaches, including API-based and

hosted payment experiences.

Enterprise Integration Leadership

● Design and oversee integrations between Salesforce and:

o NetSuite

o PeopleSoft

o AWS Services

o Middleware/Data Hub platforms

o Third-party payment providers

o Enterprise APIs

● Establish API governance, authentication, security, and monitoring standards.

● Lead integration design for real-time and batch synchronization requirements.

Stakeholder Engagement & Discovery

● Lead architecture workshops and requirement discovery sessions.

● Partner directly with business, finance, billing, customer service, and IT leadership

teams.

● Translate business objectives into technical solutions.

● Independently manage discussions with executive and senior stakeholders.

● Present architecture options, trade-offs, and recommendations.

Proof of Concept & Innovation

● Build and lead technical proof-of-concepts to validate architecture decisions.

● Evaluate third-party technologies and platform capabilities.

● Drive solution innovation and continuous improvement initiatives.

● Identify opportunities to simplify architecture and reduce implementation risk.

Required Qualifications

Salesforce

● 10+ years of Salesforce experience.

● 5+ years in Salesforce Technical Architect or Solution Architect roles.

● Deep expertise with:

o Salesforce Experience Cloud

o Apex

o Lightning Web Components (LWC)

o Integration Architecture

o Security & Identity

o Salesforce Platform Design

Payments & Financial Systems

● Proven experience implementing payment gateway or payment processor integrations.

● Experience designing online payment solutions for customer-facing applications.

● Strong understanding of payment processing workflows and transaction lifecycle

management.

● Familiarity with PCI-compliant architecture patterns.

ERP & Enterprise Integrations

● Hands-on integration experience with:

o NetSuite

o PeopleSoft

o SAP or Oracle ERP (preferred)

● Strong experience with:

o REST APIs

o Middleware platforms

o Event-driven architecture

o AWS services and integration patterns

Leadership & Communication

● Strong workshop facilitation and stakeholder management experience.

● Ability to lead distributed technical teams and vendors.

● Excellent communication and presentation skills.

● Ability to operate independently with minimal oversight.

Preferred Qualifications

● Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) preferred.

● Salesforce Application Architect and/or System Architect certifications.

● AWS Solution Architect certification.

● Experience with customer portals, self-service platforms, and enterprise digital

transformation initiatives.

● Experience leading global or hybrid onshore/offshore delivery teams.

What Success Looks Like

The successful candidate will:

● Define and own the technical architecture for client’s customer payment platform.

● Lead stakeholder workshops and architecture discovery efforts.

● Build and validate solution proof-of-concepts.

● Guide technical leads and senior developers throughout delivery.

● Drive successful implementation of Salesforce Experience Cloud, payment, and ERP

integration solutions.

● Serve as the trusted technical advisor for customer-facing digital transformation

Initiatives.