Salesforce Architect (Solution / Technical Hybrid – Contractor Bench)

Job Title:
Salesforce Architect (Solution / Technical Hybrid – Contractor Bench)

Location:
United States (Remote)

Employment Type:
Contract (1099)

Company:
Free Thinkers Consulting

About the Role

Free Thinkers Consulting is building a bench of senior Salesforce Architects to support a growing pipeline of client work.

This is a high-impact, flexible contractor role focused on pre-sales architecture, scoping, estimation, and guiding delivery across Salesforce implementations and enhancements.

You will be part of a vetted network of senior Salesforce professionals in a private Slack channel. As new opportunities arise, we post project needs and architects can opt in based on availability and interest.

There are no guaranteed hours. Engagements are ad hoc and can range from a few hours of scoping support to ongoing architectural guidance during active projects.

What You’ll Do

This role is heavily focused on pre-sales architecture, scoping, and estimation.

You will be brought in early to help answer:

• Can we do this?
• What is the right way to build it?
• How long will it take?
• What will it cost?

Core Responsibilities:

• Join client and internal calls to understand business requirements across Salesforce clouds, including:
• Sales Cloud
• Service Cloud
• Experience Cloud
• Revenue Cloud / CPQ
• Marketing Cloud / Agentforce (as applicable)

Translate high-level requirements into:

• Clear solution architecture
• Technical approach (configuration vs custom development vs integration)
• Effort estimates (hours and timeline)
• Scope inputs for proposals and statements of work
• Break down solutions into:
• Epics and major workstreams
• High-level technical components
• Dependencies and risks

Partner with Free Thinkers Consulting leadership to:

• Shape project approach and delivery strategy
• Validate feasibility and tradeoffs early
• Provide architectural guidance during delivery, including:
• Supporting project managers with breakdowns
• Reviewing developer and admin approaches
• Ensuring alignment to original scope and architecture

What We’re Looking For

We are open to both Solution Architects and Technical Architects, but candidates must demonstrate strength across both business process design and technical decision-making.

Required:

• 7+ years of Salesforce experience
• Proven experience leading architecture on Salesforce projects

Strong understanding of:

• Apex and Lightning Web Components (no need to code daily, but must understand deeply)
• Salesforce data modeling and platform limits
• Integrations and API design
• Security, roles, permissions
• Ability to independently run scoping or discovery calls with clients
• Ability to take ambiguous requirements and turn them into:
• A clear solution approach
• A defendable estimate (hours and timeline)
• Experience working across multiple Salesforce orgs (consulting experience strongly preferred)
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex concepts clearly
• Must be based in the United States
• Must be comfortable working as a 1099 contractor

Preferred:

• Salesforce Architect certifications (Application Architect, System Architect, or CTA track)
• Experience with Marketing Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, CPQ, Revenue Cloud or Agentforce

You Must Be Able To

• Independently lead scoping conversations and ask the right questions to uncover requirements
• Quickly assess whether a solution should be built:
• Declaratively
• Programmatically
• Through integrations
• Provide clear recommendations and defend tradeoffs (not just present options)
• Think in terms of scalability, maintainability, and long-term architecture
• Operate effectively in early-stage ambiguity without needing fully defined requirements

Important

• This is not a pure delivery or hands-on build role

We are specifically looking for architects who are comfortable with:

• Early-stage ambiguity
• Scoping and estimation
• Guiding both clients and internal teams before and during execution

Work Structure

• Fully remote
• Ad hoc, project-based work
• No minimum hour commitment
• Opportunities shared via private Slack channel
• You choose which engagements to participate in

Compensation

• Hourly, based on experience and scope

About Free Thinkers Consulting

Free Thinkers Consulting is a boutique Salesforce consulting firm focused on:

• Senior-led architecture
• Custom development
• Business-first solutions

We partner with small and mid-market companies to deliver clean, scalable Salesforce systems that drive real business outcomes.

How to Apply

Please include:

• Resume or LinkedIn profile
• Salesforce certifications (if applicable)
• Years of Salesforce experience
• Typical hourly rate

Brief summary of:

• Your architecture experience
• Clouds and specialties (Sales, Service, CPQ, etc.)

Qualified candidates will be invited to join our contractor bench network and added to our Slack channel for future opportunities.