Software Engineering Architect - Missionforce
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The Software Engineering Architect will design and build Government Cloud environments and offerings for Missionforce, serving as a primary architect for systems, products, or functional areas. The role integrates Salesforce products into Missionforce environments and collaborates with product and engineering teams on requirements, solutions, reviews, and onboarding. Architects also identify improvements and develop training, documentation, processes, and tooling for public-sector customers and internal teams.
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Description What You'll Be Doing & Why It Matters
We have an immediate opportunity for a Software Architect who wants to design and build next generation Government Cloud environments and offerings. This Architect will be a key contributor to Missionforce. In the role of this Architect, you are at the center of the action, leading the architecture and integration of market leading Salesforce products and services into new and existing Missionforce environments. Leveraging your strong architectural and technical foundation, you will collaborate to deliver Salesforce's market-leading Customer 360 suite of products to our higher education, state and local, federal, military and other public sector customers.
You will work hand in hand with Salesforce product and service teams to bring their capabilities into Salesforce's Missionforce architecture, provide expert insight to help teams better understand and adapt to Missionforce's unique requirements, as well as enable Missionforce innovation to be broadly leveraged across Salesforce. As such, Missionforce architects are uniquely positioned to make significant impacts for Salesforce, our customers, and for the nation.
Core Responsibilities & Scope:
- Acts as the primary architect for one or more Missionforce systems and/or major products or functional areas
- Collaborates with architects and engineering teams across Salesforce to share requirements, develops innovative solutions, engages in architecture and code reviews, and answers technical onboarding questions
- Identifies opportunities for ongoing improvement and delivers innovative, repeatable solutions for stakeholders
- Develops and enhances architectural and onboarding training, documentation, processes and tooling
Minimum Requirements:
- 15+ years of information technology industry experience
- 5+ years of experience in IT architecture, software architecture or equivalent field
- Broad experience in software architecture, development, and deployment patterns and methods
- Preferred experience with functional driven design, distributed systems, and micro-services
- Experience architecting end to end, complex (large-scale) solutions for public cloud environments
- Preferred experience with DevOps, zero-trust security models and container technologies
- Preferred experience with production systems operating in AWS dedicated regions
- Demonstrated technical expertise in multiple infrastructure, middleware and/or applications domains
- Preferred experience with service ownership and designing self-healing, scalable services
- Experience synthesizing functional and non-functional requirements for individual service teams
- Preferred experience leading development of architectural designs, articles and training
- Excellent oral and written communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, and interpersonal skills
- Preferred experience tailoring content for executive, technical and non-technical audiences
- Education:M.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent field (or equivalent experience)
In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,533 open Software Architect jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Virginia median$144–247K/yr69 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 76 open Software Architect jobs in Virginia and 1,533 across the US. 21% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Software Architect postings that state a minimum ask for (median 9 years, across 1,137 postings).
- Education
- 502 of the 1,533 open Software Architect jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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