The backlog has outgrown the administrator
Priorities compete, architecture decisions accumulate, and the internal owner needs an experienced technical counterpart.
Fractional Salesforce architect
Senior Salesforce judgment without a full-time hire.
SteadNorth helps growing businesses and consulting teams make architecture decisions, control technical risk, prioritize delivery, and guide Salesforce work through release.
Part-timeRight-sized capacity
Hands-onClose to delivery
IndependentClear technical judgment
AccountableDecisions documented
The gap we fill
Salesforce is important enough to need leadership—but not another executive hire.
Vendors need informed oversight
Scope, design, estimates, releases, and technical tradeoffs need independent review tied to business outcomes.
Senior capacity is temporarily constrained
Add architecture and engineering leadership behind your brand without hiring for a short-term peak.
Typical responsibilities
A dependable technical center of gravity.
The exact cadence is built around the team, roadmap, vendors, and active delivery risk.
- Set the technical roadmap
Order platform work by value, risk, dependencies, and operating capacity.
- Review solution design
Challenge unnecessary complexity and document maintainable architecture decisions.
- Guide delivery
Support engineers and administrators with reviews, unblockers, standards, and escalation paths.
- Verify releases
Improve test coverage, deployment discipline, readiness decisions, and post-release follow-through.
Engagement design
Built around the leadership gap.
Architecture office hours
Recurring decision support, design review, and technical guidance for an established delivery team.
Roadmap and vendor leadership
Independent prioritization, scope review, risk control, and stakeholder communication.
Hands-on senior capacity
Architecture combined with targeted engineering, code review, troubleshooting, or release support.
Add judgment before adding headcount
Bring senior Salesforce leadership into the room.
Share the decisions, delivery risks, or capacity gap your current team needs help carrying.
Common questions
Flexible, not vague.
Is this only advisory?
No. The engagement can combine architecture leadership with hands-on engineering, reviews, troubleshooting, and release work.
Can you work behind another consultancy's brand?
Yes. SteadNorth supports white-label delivery under NDA while the partner remains client-facing.
Is there a minimum term?
The cadence and initial term are defined around the specific leadership gap, active roadmap, and availability required.