Salesforce Architect (m/f/d)

Are you seeking answers and opportunities for your future? At our site in Böblingen you will find both as

• Home-Office
• Market leader
• International impact

Advantest – We enable tomorrowʻs technology.

• Market leader
• Hightech-High-tech semiconductors
• International impact

IoT, 5G and Artificial Intelligence. Unthinkable without us. More than half of all the microchips produced worldwide first pass through our hands. As the global market leader of automated test systems in the semiconductor industry we help the world to realize the digital transformation, enable our customers to shape the future and offer you the exciting jobs intended for pioneers.

Your Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end Salesforce architecture covering Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud (Portals), Revenue Cloud, and integrations.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, secure, and reusable Salesforce solutions, aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Define Salesforce reference architectures, design patterns, and non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, security).
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, GDPR, and integration standards.

Functional leadership

• Drive and deliver the vision and roadmap for Business Partner Portals, including:
  • Customer portals
  • Supplier and partner portals
  • B2B commerce and self-service experiences
• Define adoption, usability, and experience KPIs; continuously optimize customer and partner engagement.

Technical Leadership & Governance

• Act as technical authority for all Salesforce initiatives, including custom development (Apex, LWC, APIs).
  • Lead and mentor Salesforce developers, administrators, and external partners.
  • Establish and enforce:
  • Salesforce development standards
  • CI/CD and release management practices
  • Code quality, security, and documentation standards
• Lead architectural reviews and approve solution designs across projects

Stakeholder & Delivery Leadership

• Act as the primary Salesforce and portals advisor to business stakeholders across Sales, Service, Marketing, Supply Chain, and IT.
• Lead requirement discovery workshops and translate outcomes into actionable solution designs.
• Provide delivery oversight from concept to production and post‑go‑live optimization.
• Support executive discussions with clear architectural narratives and business impact articulation.

Your Qualifications

Experience

• 7+ years of Salesforce platform experience, including solution or technical architect roles.
• Proven experience delivering experience portals, B2B commerce, or customer-facing platforms.
• Experience working in complex enterprise IT environments with multiple integrations.

Technical Skills

• Salesforce: Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud; Revenue Cloud knowledge strong advantage.
• Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), declarative automation.
• API‑based integrations, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices.
• Web application development (Java, front end technologies)
• Strategic thinker with the ability to connect architecture to business value.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills at senior leadership level.
• Proven mentoring and team leadership capabilities.
• Ownership mindset with readiness to grow into a department level accountability role

Our offer

• Flexibility
• Development
• Fitness
• Security

Flexibility: Flexible and trust-based working hours, 30 vacation days + option for additional vacation days, mobile working, individual part-time models and programs for extended periods of absence

Benefits: Attractive salary, share in Advantest´s success through our exceptionally appealing bonus program as well as numerous subsidies, discounts and offerings (e.g. bike leasing)

Development: Structured onboarding programs and mentoring, development discussions, technical and soft skill trainings, language courses and knowledge sessions

Fitness: Ergonomic working environment, sports and fitness options and events (e.g. Global Challenge) as well as health days

Security: Attractive company pension scheme, comprehensive insurance coverage and support in emergency situations

Insights into our work environment

Would you like to know more about jobs at Advantest and about our unique team spirit? Our employees offer you their personal insights into our working environment.Would you like to take a closer look how our working environment in Boeblingen or Amerang looks like? Here you can take a short virtual 360° tour of our company – click the image to get to know us better.

Contact

If you have any questions, Ann-Kathrin Rupp will be happy to answer them.