Salesforce Solution Architect

About the Role Guidehouse is seeking a Salesforce Solution Architect to serve as a strategic advisor and platform expert for our largest, most complex Public Sector clients. This role leads cross-domain solution design, translates client needs into scalable Salesforce architectures, and contributes to presales and delivery to drive long-term customer success.

What You'll Do

• Serve as a strategic advisor and Salesforce solution and platform expert to the company’s largest, most complex Public Sector clients.
• Lead solution design across business and technology domains, translating client needs into scalable, maintainable Salesforce architectures.
• Play a key role in both presales and delivery, shaping, scoping, and solutioning engagements to position customers for long-term success.
• Provide solution oversight and delivery leadership on large-scale, mission-critical programs, ensuring alignment to business outcomes and technical standards.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders, guiding decision-making across business process, data, integration, and platform capabilities.
• Drive solution excellence by aligning business requirements to Salesforce capabilities, industry accelerators, and best practices.
• Collaborate with business analysts, developers, and technical architects to design end-to-end solutions across Salesforce clouds and integrated systems.
• Lead fit-gap analysis and recommend optimal approaches leveraging configuration, integration, and custom development as needed.
• Guide teams on solution patterns, integration strategies, data models, and automation design.
• Identify and proactively manage solution risks, dependencies, and trade-offs, ensuring issues are resolved through completion.
• Review and ensure quality of key deliverables, including solution designs, architecture diagrams, and functional specifications.
• Work closely with Delivery Managers and Project Managers to ensure successful execution within scope, budget, and timeline expectations.
• Contribute to practice growth through thought leadership, accelerators, and reusable solution assets.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to delivery teams, fostering a high-performance and collaborative culture.
• Ability to commute to client or corporate offices within the Washington, DC metropolitan area as the practice needs.

What We're Looking For

• 6+ years of Salesforce solution architecture or consulting experience, including end-to-end solution design and delivery.
• Bachelor's degree is required (relevant experience may be substituted).
• Strong understanding of Salesforce platform capabilities, including Sales, Service, Experience, and/or Public Sector Solutions.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into scalable solution designs, including data models, integrations, and automation.
• Experience leading fit-gap analysis and solutioning workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
• Ability to design and optimize business processes enabled by Salesforce and integrated technologies.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns, data migration considerations, and enterprise architecture principles.