We are looking for an experienced Applications Architect to lead the design and development of scalable Salesforce solutions in Irvine, California. This role requires deep technical expertise and a strategic mindset to drive platform innovation and ensure product reliability. The ideal candidate will be adept at managing complex architectures, enabling intelligent features, and fostering collaboration across teams.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Oversee the architecture and lifecycle management of the Salesforce platform, including version control and release strategies.<br>• Design scalable data models, metadata frameworks, and configuration patterns to support multi-customer environments.<br>• Establish and enforce development standards for technologies such as Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, APIs, and Custom Metadata.<br>• Collaborate with Product and Delivery teams to align roadmap priorities with platform capabilities.<br>• Implement controlled feature rollouts with backward compatibility across product releases.<br>• Develop technical documentation such as architecture diagrams, design artifacts, release notes, and implementation guides.<br>• Directly contribute to platform development using Apex, Flows, and automation tools.<br>• Architect and refine CI/CD pipelines and GitHub environments for reliable deployments.<br>• Design AI-powered features for workflow automation, intelligent routing, and case management.<br>• Define secure practices for AI integration and data governance within the platform.
<p><strong>Lead Data Architect / Senior Data Modeler</strong></p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Onsite in Burbank, CA (4 days/week, Mon–Thu)</p><p><strong>Team:</strong> Studio Technology – Data Services</p><p><br></p><p><strong>About the Role</strong></p><p>The Studio Technology group at Walt Disney Studios empowers filmmakers, analysts, and business partners with scalable, secure, and innovative data solutions. As part of the Data Services team, you will shape how the Studio builds, organizes, and delivers data — from financial systems to marketing analytics to consumer engagement products.</p><p>We are looking for a Lead Data Architect whose primary passion is data modeling and data architecture, not software architecture. This person lives and breathes semantic models, dimensional design, medallion-layer structuring, and data-as-a-product principles. The ideal candidate is doing this work hands-on today and has done it consistently in recent roles — this is their core craft, not an adjacent skill.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>What You’ll Do (Day-to-Day)</strong></p><p>● Partner with business stakeholders and product managers to understand data requirements and translate them into scalable data strategies and architecture.</p><p>● Design and own semantic models, dimensional models, entity definitions, and medallion-layer data structures (Bronze/Silver/Gold).</p><p>● Determine what gets built where and why, ensuring consistent modeling patterns across projects and data domains.</p><p>● Define and implement data-as-a-product approaches, including domain boundaries, ownership models, SLAs, and documentation standards.</p><p>● Work closely with data engineers to guide how assets should be built, structured, and optimized.</p><p>● Establish and maintain data standards, governance practices, naming conventions, and documentation for modeling and architecture.</p><p>● Provide technical leadership on data modeling best practices across teams, including coaching junior members.</p><p>● Evaluate modern data technologies and recommend tools that improve modeling consistency, performance, and quality.</p><p>● Collaborate with analytics, BI, and data science teams to design models that support reporting, ML/AI workloads, and cross-domain analytics.</p>
