Salesforce Architect

Overview

Great Day Improvements, LLC has grown rapidly in the 13 years since its founding, toward its vision of becoming one of the largest home improvement companies in the U.S. Headquartered in Twinsburg, Ohio, Great Day Improvements is a $1.5 billion, vertically integrated, direct-to-consumer provider of premium home improvement products. The company’s family of brands includes Patio Enclosures®, Champion Windows and Home Exteriors®, Universal Windows Direct®, Apex Energy Solutions®, Stanek Windows®, Hartshorn Custom Contracting, Your Home Improvement Company, K Designers, Leaf Guard®, Englert®, and The Bath Authority.

With an expanding workforce of more than 4,800 employees across 130 metropolitan markets throughout the U.S. and Canada, Great Day Improvements ranks among the top home improvement companies nationwide and is one of the fastest‑growing private companies in America.

We are seeking a Salesforce Architect to provide technical ownership and leadership for our Salesforce ecosystem, ensuring the platform remains scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned to enterprise priorities. This role defines solution architecture, establishes platform standards, and enables consistent delivery across internal teams and implementation partners. This position is a hands‑on execution leader who partners closely with business leaders, engineering teams, and external vendors to translate priorities into well‑designed solutions and drive work through completion.

The Salesforce Architect removes delivery roadblocks, ensures high‑quality releases, and maintains strong operational discipline across platform design, configuration, development, automation, integrations, and release governance. In addition to delivery execution, this role strengthens architectural maturity through clear patterns, reusable standards, strong documentation, and consistent governance. The Salesforce Architect is accountable for platform health and delivery outcomes, with a focus on speed, consistency, reliability, and long‑term supportability as Salesforce continues to scale across the organization.

Location:

Twinsburg, OH (Hybrid)

Solution Architecture and Delivery Execution

• Own end‑to‑end solution architecture across Salesforce, ensuring designs are executable, scalable, maintainable, and aligned to platform standards.
• Lead technical design and working sessions to drive decisions, remove ambiguity, and keep delivery moving.
• Provide technical direction across configuration, automation, custom development, and ecosystem connectivity, ensuring solutions are built correctly the first time.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex Salesforce design decisions and cross‑system issues.

Strategy, Planning, and Architectural Direction

• Provide strategic, technical, and operational leadership in support of business and technology transformation initiatives.
• Translate business capabilities and requirements into solution architectures that align with business strategy, technology standards, and platform guardrails.
• Define and document functional and non‑functional requirements in partnership with business and delivery teams, including performance, scalability, security, monitoring, supportability, and operational readiness.
• Promote reuse and standardization across programs to accelerate responsible delivery and reduce long‑term complexity.
• Stay current on emerging Salesforce capabilities, architecture patterns, and industry best practices, then recommend practical adoption aligned to business outcomes.

Platform Standards, Governance, and Quality Controls

• Establish and enforce platform standards and reference patterns across:
  • Configuration, metadata, and naming conventions
  • Automation strategy and guardrails
  • Development of standards and code quality
  • Environment strategy and release discipline
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts that drive clarity and execution, including:
  • Reference architectures and solution patterns
  • Systems models and workflow diagrams
  • Data model standards and documentation
  • Architecture decision records and design guidelines
• Validate solution compliance to standards and confirm delivered…