Salesforce Architect & Tech Development Lead

Responsibilities Peraton is seeking a Salesforce Architect & Technical Development Lead to serve as the Systems Architect supporting the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA).

Reporting into the business integration office, this role drives both near-term delivery and long-range platform strategy across the VA's SaaS and PaaS portfolio.

The architect will partner with technical leads across Salesforce, Microsoft Power Platform (Dynamics), Pega, ServiceNow, and other solution delivery platforms.

The immediate priority is a hands-on Salesforce Design Architect and Development Team Lead who can guide the team through the most time-sensitive workstreams and deliver measurable outcomes for VA stakeholders. This position will be 100% Remote.

What you'll do: Lead architecture and delivery in partnership with VA's Digital Transformation Center, Chief Production Office, and other VA stakeholders, incorporating all relevant standards, guidelines, policies, and procedures governing configuration of the VA's SaaS and PaaS solutions.

Own the technical vision for the platform: define a target-state architecture that favors declarative and out-of-the-box capability first, and apply programmatic solutions (Apex, LWC, integrations) only where configuration cannot meet the requirement.

Ensure all team members work exclusively within DTC-provisioned sandboxes across the VA's SaaS and PaaS environments to build, test, and validate functionality before promotion.

Deliver capability through agile, configuration-first sprints grounded in Human-Centered Design (HCD), SaaS/PaaS configuration, and data-driven feedback loops.

Establish and enforce a modern Salesforce DevOps practice, including source-driven development, version control (Git), automated CI/CD pipelines, sandbox seeding/refresh strategy, and environment management aligned to VA release governance.

Validate technical designs against enterprise engineering and data-architecture requirements; identify and resolve risks, dependenc