Hiring brief scenarios
Build the Salesforce Architect brief around the work.
These scenarios connect location context to role responsibilities. Use them as prompts to verify with the employer, not as measures of Hartford demand, clients, or candidate supply.
Sourced finance and insurance context
Policies, accounts, and controlled transactions: Salesforce Architect
Hartford's 2025-2029 consolidated plan reports finance, insurance, and real estate as 30 percent of city jobs in its business-activity table and identifies finance and insurance among the city's highest-paying industries. Tie the operating scenario to domain boundaries and record ownership. Ask how the architect would divide standard objects, custom objects, external data, identity, and reporting across the platform. Insurance and financial systems can join accounts, policies, premiums, claims, payments, identity, risk rules, approvals, reconciliations, reporting, and audit evidence.
Evidence to request: Use a domain-model and sharing exercise with conflicting business-unit requirements and a stated system of record. Name the product, transaction or claim, system of record, money movement, control owner, reporting date, reconciliation, exception path, and production support target.
Sourced education and health care context
Care, learning, and protected records: Salesforce Architect
The Hartford plan reports education and health care services as 28 percent of city jobs and names health care and social assistance among the city's largest industries. Define the integration portfolio and nonfunctional limits. Candidates should compare synchronous, event, batch, and middleware patterns against volume, latency, failure recovery, and support ownership. Health and education systems may connect clinical or student records, scheduling, billing, grants, workforce data, access controls, retention rules, and formal review.
Evidence to request: Review an architecture decision record for an integration choice, including rejected options and operating consequences. Set the care, research, teaching, or administrative process, source record, data classification, access reviewer, integration, reporting obligation, and acceptance owner.
Sourced data and professional services context
Analysis, telecommunications, and client delivery: Salesforce Architect
Hartford's plan describes the city as a major data-processing and telecommunications center and reports professional, scientific, and management services as 12 percent of city jobs. Set governance around customization, security, releases, and technical debt. Require a decision process that product owners and delivery teams can use after the architect leaves. Data and professional-services work can cross client environments, source systems, identity boundaries, analytical definitions, delivery evidence, and several operating teams.
Evidence to request: Ask for a governance mechanism the architect introduced and evidence that teams used it to make or reverse a design decision. Clarify whether the role owns an internal platform or client delivery, then document the source data, service boundary, users, access model, output, service measure, and handoff.