Focus GTS staffs Certified Salesforce Technical Architects, solution architects, developers, and admins for enterprise teams. We've staffed Salesforce roles since 2018 — and we don't present offshore-only candidates for senior architecture work. Typical contract fill: two weeks when your interview process is ready.
What we staff
Across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Experience Cloud, and the integration architecture that ties it all together.
Cross-cloud solution design at the business and process level. Maps requirements to Sales / Service / Marketing / Experience Cloud and integration patterns.
Technical design lead: Apex, LWC, integration architecture, data model, security, scalability. Often Salesforce Certified Technical Architect credentialed.
Single-cloud or focused-domain technical architect. The right hire when you don't need a full CTA but need senior architectural ownership.
Senior Apex, Lightning Web Component, and Visualforce developers with production experience on Salesforce CI/CD and the Salesforce DX toolchain.
Advanced Administrators who actually own Salesforce — declarative configuration, flows, permission sets, release management, and data hygiene.
Journey Builder, Email Studio, Mobile Studio, Cloud Pages, Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (formerly Pardot), AMPscript, and SSJS.
Cloud-specific consultants and developers — including Salesforce Industries (formerly Vlocity) for verticalized rollouts.
Integration specialists who connect Salesforce to ERP, marketing automation, and data platforms — including Salesforce-Adobe stack integrations.
Specialty placement
When you need a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect for enterprise-scale architecture, integration design, or a complex multi-cloud rollout — we vet for the credential and the production experience that goes with it.
We confirm the Salesforce Certified Technical Architect designation directly with Trailhead and validate currency before any submission.
Each candidate is screened against a real architecture problem — data model, integration pattern, security architecture, and scalability trade-offs — before reaching your team.
Verified production experience on Fortune-class Salesforce deployments, including multi-cloud rollouts and Salesforce–Adobe stack integrations.
How we hire
Most staffing firms run keyword searches and forward résumés. We don't.
Minimum 7 years for architects, 5 for developers. No junior staff submissions.
100% US-based candidates for senior Salesforce architecture roles. No offshore submissions.
Screened by people who actually ship production Salesforce — not generic IT recruiters running keyword matches.
Verified production experience on the specific clouds the role requires. Real prior-manager calls, not just LinkedIn endorsements.
When the client process is fast, our typical contract Salesforce architect placement closes in two weeks.
What we see
Same patterns we see across the Adobe Experience Cloud market — applied to Salesforce. After staffing Salesforce roles since 2018, these are the operating failures that show up most.
Salesforce is a powerful enterprise platform — and companies routinely buy it then refuse to budget for senior specialists to run it. They pay seven-figure license costs and staff with $12-an-hour offshore developers. The result: massive license spend, minimal output, and an executive sponsor who can't explain the ROI six months in. The platform isn't the problem. The fuel is.
Procurement picks a system integrator on price. The winning bid is staffed with rotating offshore developers who've never built production Salesforce, and the implementation goes sideways within the first six months. Flows break. Custom Apex grows unmaintainable. Integrations don't work the way they were diagrammed. The whole thing gets redone — usually with the team that should have been hired the first time. The "second build" tax is enormous.
The software gets sold — sometimes by Salesforce, sometimes by a partner with a referral arrangement — before there's a plan for the team that's going to operate it. Procurement signs the contract. Six months later there's still no Salesforce architect, no admin lead, no release management process. The platform sits underutilized, the bill keeps coming, and the executive who approved it quietly stops talking about it in QBRs.
One system integrator ends up holding all the operational context. Every change is a new SOW. Every escalation is a change order. Every renewal is an MSA negotiation. The internal team can't make moves because they don't have the institutional knowledge — the SI does, and they're not exactly motivated to write it all down. Companies spend years unable to leave their integrator because the cost of rebuilding the knowledge from scratch is higher than the next SOW.
Big-bang launch. Press release. The integrator's senior staff rotates off to the next project. Three months later, the release process starts to wobble. Admins raise issues that nobody triages. Tickets pile up. The platform that launched looking great enters a slow decay because nobody inside the company owns Day 2 operations.
Cross-platform expertise
A staffing firm that only knows Salesforce can't help when your Marketing Cloud needs to talk to AEM, or your Service Cloud needs to fire Real-Time CDP events.
Focus GTS staffs senior talent across both Salesforce and Adobe Experience Cloud. We're an Adobe Silver Solution Partner with a 250+ Adobe Experience Manager placement track record, and we've been staffing Salesforce since 2018. When a Salesforce architect needs to design a Marketing Cloud → AEM personalization integration, or a MuleSoft engineer needs to tie Service Cloud to Adobe Real-Time CDP, we can staff both sides of the integration without piecing together two staffing relationships.
Frequently asked
Real answers to questions hiring managers ask us most often.
Our typical contract Salesforce architect placement closes in two weeks when the client has a quick interview process. Full-time placements run 4–8 weeks, depending on title level and compensation alignment. The fastest fills happen when hiring managers can decide within 48 hours of a strong submission and the client doesn't run a multi-week panel-interview gauntlet.
A Salesforce Solution Architect designs the cross-cloud solution at the business and process level — they map requirements to Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and integration patterns. A Technical Architect (often a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect, CTA) designs the technical implementation — Apex, LWC, integration architecture, data model, security, scalability. Most enterprise programs need both roles or one senior person who covers both, especially on multi-cloud rollouts.
Yes. We staff Salesforce roles across all three engagement models. Contract is typically the fastest path (2-week fills are common). Contract-to-hire works well when teams want to validate fit before converting to FTE. Full-time and executive search take longer because compensation alignment is the bottleneck, not candidate availability.
We routinely place candidates with Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA), Application Architect, System Architect, Platform Developer I and II, Administrator, Advanced Administrator, Marketing Cloud Consultant, Sales Cloud Consultant, Service Cloud Consultant, and Experience Cloud Consultant credentials. We screen for real production experience first and certifications second — a CTA cert without shipped enterprise work is less valuable than a battle-tested Application Architect with five years of multi-cloud delivery.
Yes. Marketing Cloud is one of our highest-volume placements — Journey Builder, Email Studio, Mobile Studio, Cloud Pages, Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (formerly Pardot), and the AMPscript / SSJS specialists who actually build campaigns. We also staff Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Salesforce Industries (formerly Vlocity), MuleSoft integration architects, and Salesforce-Adobe integration specialists for teams running both stacks.
Yes. 100% of our actively-marketed Salesforce candidates are US-based. We do not present offshore-only candidates for Salesforce architect roles. Companies using offshore-only Salesforce architects routinely end up rebuilding the implementation 12–18 months later — the second-build cost dwarfs whatever the offshore engagement saved upfront. We've watched it happen too many times to play that game.
Every Salesforce candidate is technical-screened by people who've actually shipped production Salesforce — not generic IT recruiters running keyword searches. We verify production experience on the specific clouds the role needs, validate certifications against actual project work, run reference checks with prior managers, and only present senior candidates with a minimum of five years (developers) to seven-plus years (architects) of hands-on Salesforce experience. We've staffed Salesforce roles since 2018.
Navigator is our subscription managed service for ongoing Salesforce execution — senior US-based Salesforce architects on a fixed monthly rate, no per-project SOWs, no MSA renewals. Six-month minimum commitment. Designed as an alternative to Salesforce partners and system integrators that lock you into multi-year contracts and rotating junior staff. Useful for enterprise teams that need consistent Salesforce execution without an SI's overhead.
Two weeks to a strong submission when your process is ready. Senior US-based candidates only. Tell us what you need.
Tell us a little about the role. We'll route you to the right specialist on our Salesforce team — usually within one business day.
