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About Communities Foundation of Texas
The mission of Communities Foundation of Texas (CFT) is to improve the lives of all people in our community by investing in their health, wealth, living, and learning. CFT works to accomplish this by growing community giving, expanding community impact, and advancing community equity. With a vision of building thriving communities for all, CFT works locally and across the state with many individuals, families, companies, foundations, and nonprofits through a variety of charitable funds and strategic grantmaking initiatives. CFT professionally manages more than 1,300 charitable funds and has awarded more than $2.6 billion in grants since its founding in 1953.
CFT is committed to serving and understanding donor needs, expertly handling complex gifts, wisely managing charitable funds, and leveraging its community knowledge to increase charitable impact, in addition to powering several initiatives including the W. W. Caruth, Jr. Fund at CFT, the Center for Business Impact, Educate Texas at CFT, Emerging Leaders in Philanthropy at CFT, GiveWisely, and CFT’s North Texas Giving Day. CFT’s North Texas Giving Day raised more than $70 million in 2024 to help over 3,200 North Texas nonprofits, and has raised more than $560 million throughout its 16-year history. Learn more at CFTexas.org.
Your role
The Salesforce Solution Architect serves as Communities Foundation of Texas’ (CFT) lead Salesforce expert, responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing solutions across Salesforce products. This role replaces the Salesforce Administrator position and expands responsibilities to include advanced development, solution design, and integration architecture. The Solution Architect will ensure CFT’s Salesforce environment is scalable, secure, and aligned with organizational strategy, while mentoring junior staff and collaborating with business stakeholders.
This role is onsite in our Dallas office at least 3 days per week.
What you’ll do
- Lead end-to-end solution design across Salesforce products (NPSP, Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, etc.) and integrations.
- Define and implement scalable data models, automation, and security frameworks.
- Evaluate AppExchange tools, vendor solutions, and emerging Salesforce capabilities.
- Build and customize with Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, APIs, and declarative tools.
- Oversee Salesforce configuration, user management, reporting, dashboards, and releases.
- Own integration patterns with systems like finance, marketing, and grant platforms.
- Translate business requirements into technical solutions, ensuring alignment with CFT’s mission.
- Partner with stakeholders to optimize Salesforce adoption and impact.
- Mentor the Jr. Salesforce Developer and support cross-team knowledge transfer.
- Establish and enforce Salesforce development, deployment, and security best practices.
- Maintain system documentation and solution roadmaps.
- Stay current with Salesforce releases and guide adoption of new capabilities.
What you’ll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field preferred; equivalent experience accepted.
- 5 or more years of Salesforce development or administration experience.
- Familiarity with Apex, SOQL, Lightning Web Components, and Salesforce APIs.
- Salesforce Platform Developer I certification (required within 6 months of hire).
- Additional certifications (Administrator, Platform App Builder) are a plus.
- Eager to learn and grow technical Salesforce expertise.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Strong communication and documentation abilities.
Disclaimer: The above sections contain representative examples of job duties that might be performed by employees assigned to this classification. CFT is a dynamic organization, and the environment can be fluid. Roles and responsibilities may be altered to accommodate changing conditions and objectives as well as to tap into the skills and experience of its employees. Accordingly, employees may be asked to perform duties that are outside the specific work that is listed. This is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and/or skills required of all employees within this class.
Accommodations: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.
