A Salesforce Solutions Architect and a Technical Architect are not the same role.
I see job descriptions conflate these two constantly, and it creates real problems for hiring managers before the search even starts.
A Salesforce Solutions Architect is focused on functional configuration and process. They think in flows, objects, orgs, and sandboxes. They translate business requirements into platform-native solutions and know where declarative ends and custom code begins.
A Technical Architect is a different animal. They’re deep in development, custom integrations, and platform-level complexity. Apex, APIs, DevOps, the stuff that lives under the hood.
And if your role actually requires someone designing systems across Azure, GCP, and AWS with Salesforce as one piece of a larger ecosystem, that’s an Enterprise Architect. Completely legitimate need, but a third distinct hire.
When these get blended into one job description, a few things happen. You attract candidates who match on keywords but have no real depth in either direction. You confuse the market about what you actually need. And you end up interviewing people for sixty days before realizing the role was never clearly defined in the first place.
Role clarity before you post isn’t just good recruiting hygiene. It’s how you avoid a six-month mistake.
If you’re trying to sort out which role you actually need, I’m happy to think it through with you.
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