Sr. Salesforce Platform Architect

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Lead the strategic architecture of Salesforce solutions to enhance the efficiency of cancer care, implementing best practices and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

At Veracyte, we offer exciting career opportunities for those interested in joining a pioneering team that is committed to transforming cancer care for patients across the globe. Working at Veracyte enables our employees to not only make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients, but to also learn and grow within a purpose driven environment. This is what we call the Veracyte way – it’s about how we work together, guided by our values, to give clinicians the insights they need to help patients make life-changing decisions. 

Our Values:

  • We Seek A Better Way: We innovate boldly, learn from our setbacks, and are resilient in our pursuit to transform cancer care
  • We Make It Happen: We act with urgency, commit to quality, and bring fun to our hard work
  • We Are Stronger Together: We collaborate openly, seek to understand, and celebrate our wins
  • We Care Deeply: We embrace our differences, do the right thing, and encourage each other

 

The Position:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Sr. Salesforce Platform Architect. This role provides strategic leadership and deep technical expertise in designing, implementing, and governing the enterprise-wide Salesforce ecosystem. The Salesforce Platform Architect combines extensive platform knowledge with strong architectural discipline to ensure solutions align with business goals, scale effectively, and adhere to corporate and regulatory standards. Serving as a trusted advisor to IT, business, and compliance partners, this architect guides solution design, oversees technical delivery, and shapes the long-term vision and evolution of the Salesforce platform.

This is a hybrid role, based out of our San Diego or South San Francisco office. 

Key Responsibilities:

Platform Strategy and Architecture

  • Define the overall Salesforce platform strategy, encompassing Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and industry solutions such Life Science Cloud.
  • Develop and maintain architectural blueprints, reference models, and roadmaps aligned to enterprise architecture principles. 
  • Establish guidelines for scalable data models, integration patterns, and platform usage across departments and business units. 
  • Continuously evaluate new Salesforce features and releases to recommend adoption strategies that add business value. 

Solution Design and Governance

  • Lead architecture and design sessions to translate business needs into high-quality technical solutions working closely with Technical Product Managers and Development teams.
  • Create and enforce standards for data integrity, object relationships, automation, and security. 
  • Review and approve solution designs to ensure alignment with platform best practices and technical governance policies. 
  • Serve as a design authority in the Salesforce Center of Excellence (CoE), supporting consistent implementation approaches and code quality standards. 

Integration and Data Management

  • Work closely with Cloud Operations on Integration Strategies.
  • Lead initiatives for master data management, record deduplication, and structured data governance practices. 

Performance, Security, and Compliance

  • Establish security and compliance frameworks consistent with corporate standards and regulatory expectations (HIPAA, GDPR, GxP, SOX, etc.). 
  • Monitor and optimize platform performance, scalability, and storage utilization.
  • Develop strategies for environment management, sandbox usage, and efficient deployment processes. 

Leadership and Collaboration

  • Collaborate closely with enterprise architects, developers, technical product managers, and administrators to ensure solution consistency. 
  • Provide coaching and technical mentoring to development and configuration teams on best practices and design patterns. 
  • Communicate architectural decisions and platform roadmaps to stakeholders ranging from executive sponsors to technical delivery teams. 
  • Support project estimation, technical risk assessment, and resource planning activities. 

Who You Are:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field. 
  • 7+ years of progressive experience with Salesforce architecture, development, or solution design. 
  • Expert understanding of Salesforce object model design, data management, and security architecture. 
  • Proven track record implementing complex, multi-cloud Salesforce solutions in large or regulated enterprises. 
  • Strong command of integration techniques and technologies such as REST/SOAP APIs, asynchronous processing, and middleware orchestration. 
  • Experience with Salesforce DevOps tools and methodologies, including version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments. 
  • Active Salesforce certifications such as Application Architect, System Architect, or Certified Technical Architect preferred. 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in regulated industries such as life sciences, healthcare, or financial services, including validation and audit trail requirements. 
  • Strong leadership capabilities with the ability to influence architecture decisions and align technical teams around a shared vision. 
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills, capable of translating complex architectural concepts for non-technical audiences. 
  • Proactive mindset emphasizing scalability, maintainability, and long-term platform governance. 
  • Experience with mid to large scale digital transformations. 

#LI-Hybrid

For candidates based in our San Diego office, the salary range is $161,000 - 173,000.

For candidates based in our South San Francisco office, the salary range is $178,000 - 196,000.

 

 

 

The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience, skillset, geographic location, industry, education, etc. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Pay range
$161,000$196,000 USD

 

What We Can Offer You

Veracyte is a growing company that offers significant career opportunities if you are curious, driven, patient-oriented and aspire to help us build a great company. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, and are committed to fostering an inclusive workforce, where diverse backgrounds are represented, engaged, and empowered to drive innovative ideas and decisions. We are thrilled to be recognized as a 2024 Certified™ Great Place to Work® in both the US and Israel - a testament to our dynamic, inclusive, and inspiring workplace where passion meets purpose.

 

About Veracyte

Veracyte (Nasdaq: VCYT) is a global diagnostics company whose vision is to transform cancer care for patients all over the world. We empower clinicians with the high-value insights they need to guide and assure patients at pivotal moments in the race to diagnose and treat cancer. Our Veracyte Diagnostics Platform delivers high-performing cancer tests that are fueled by broad genomic and clinical data, deep bioinformatic and AI capabilities, and a powerful evidence-generation engine, which ultimately drives durable reimbursement and guideline inclusion for our tests, along with new insights to support continued innovation and pipeline development. For more information, please visit www.veracyte.com or follow us on LinkedIn or X (Twitter).

Veracyte, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability status. Veracyte participates in E-Verify in the United States. View our CCPA Disclosure Notice.

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