Distinguished Engineer - Salesforce
Economist Group
As a Distinguished Salesforce Engineer, you will shape the technical direction of the Salesforce platform and its integration with enterprise systems. You will act as a technical authority, resolving architectural challenges and elevating engineering standards across teams. You will lead multi-cloud initiatives and influence build-vs-buy decisions with broad impact. You will mentor engineers and contribute to architecture reviews, strengthening governance and best practices. This role offers the opportunity to drive scalable, enterprise-grade solutions in a forward-thinking, hybrid-working environment.
Pay / Benefits- pension or 401(k) plan
- private health insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (wellbeing resources)
- Work From Anywhere program (up to 25 days/year)
- generous parental leave
- volunteering days and moving home leave perks
- Define and evolve long-term Salesforce architecture strategy and integration with enterprise systems
- Identify systemic risks, scalability challenges, and resolve them before impact
- Elevate engineering standards, design principles, and governance across teams and domains
- Serve as technical escalation point for complex Salesforce decisions across large initiatives
- Lead architecture of multi-cloud and non-Salesforce system initiatives
- Evaluate build-vs-buy, platform, and vendor decisions with organization-wide impact
- Partner with architects and engineering managers to align cross-team direction
- Drive adoption of platform governance, integration patterns, and data architecture
- Mentor senior engineers and architects; contribute to architecture review boards and design reviews
- Extensive software engineering/architecture experience with deep Salesforce ecosystem knowledge
- Proven track record architecting large-scale, multi-cloud or multi-system enterprise solutions
- Expertise in enterprise integration patterns, event-driven architecture, data modeling, and governance at scale
- Ability to influence technical strategy beyond a single team or project
- Strong command of Salesforce architecture (Apex, sharing/security, platform limits, asynchronous processing) and enterprise architecture principles (APIs, microservices)
- Experience communicating technical strategy to executive leadership and guiding priorities
- Certifications: Salesforce Certified Application and System Architect
- Preferred: additional Salesforce certifications (Service Cloud, Data Cloud, Integration Architect)
- Strategic thinking
- Executive-level communication
- Mentorship and coachability
- Salesforce (Core Platform, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud Engagement/Next, Data Cloud)
- Enterprise integration patterns
- Event-driven architecture
Reference: WJ-747_31053209