Lead Solutions Architect

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Lead Solutions Architect in Tempe, AZ. Summary: Kforce is supporting a leading financial services organization through a multi-year Salesforce transformation to modernize and scale its ecosystem across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Financial Services Cloud (FSC), Marketing Cloud, and AI-enabled capabilities. We are seeking a Lead Solution Architect to serve as the principal solution leader and strategic thought partner, driving end-to-end architecture, integration strategy, user experience, and delivery across multiple business units. This role partners closely with executive stakeholders, product owners, engineering, data teams, and third-party vendors to design secure, scalable, and advisor-centric solutions that enable growth, onboarding excellence, service modernization, and operational efficiency. What You'll Do:

• Lead functional architecture for Salesforce initiatives, defining a scalable, multi-year platform vision
• Design end-to-end, multi-cloud solutions across FSC, Sales, Service, Marketing Cloud, and AI
• Translate business and product needs into well-architected solutions, including data models, user flows, and integrations
• Establish standards for solution design, UX, data modeling, documentation, and governance
• Reduce technical debt while improving performance, scalability, and platform sustainability
• Partner with Product Owners on roadmap planning, epics, and user stories
• Facilitate discovery sessions and act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders
• Guide fit-gap decisions between standard platform capabilities and custom solutions
• Maintain solution blueprints, documentation, and architectural artifacts
• Evaluate and recommend new Salesforce and AI capabilities
• Promote best practices in security, compliance, data governance, and integration design
• 8+ years of Salesforce solution architecture experience
• Experience designing scalable, multi-org or multi-business-unit environments
• Proven API and enterprise integration experience
• Deep expertise in FSC, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud
• Strong understanding of advisory workflows and regulated financial services
• Excellent stakeholder communication and design-leadership skills
• Salesforce certifications preferred; DevOps and compliance experience a plus