Distinguished, Enterprise Architect
Salesforce2 months ago
Base Salary
$237k - $317k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define enterprise solution architecture strategy for complex strategic customer engagements.
- Architect end-to-end Agentic Enterprise solutions using Agentforce, Data Cloud, and the Salesforce Platform.
- Design scalable enterprise AI interoperability and architectures across Salesforce and third-party ecosystems.
- Lead executive architecture workshops, technical discovery, architecture reviews, and strategic solution design engagements.
- Create reusable architecture frameworks, reference architectures, implementation patterns, governance standards, and technical handoff practices.
- Translate business challenges into solution architectures, transformation roadmaps, and value-focused proposals.
- Provide implementation guidance to Salesforce Professional Services and partner organizations.
- Collaborate with Solution Engineering, Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, Professional Services, and partners.
- Influence Salesforce product strategy, architecture standards, and technical best practices.
- Publish thought leadership and lead architecture enablement, forums, education, and innovation initiatives.
- Mentor Solution Architects and Solution Engineers and represent Salesforce at executive briefings, conferences, and industry events.
- Maintain architectural documentation and achieve annual business and strategic engagement objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 4 years of professional experience in Solution Engineering, Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Technical Consulting, Software Engineering, or another customer-facing technical role.
- Extensive experience designing enterprise solutions for complex business and technology environments.
- Deep expertise across Salesforce capabilities including Agentforce, Data Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, MuleSoft, Slack, Tableau, Platform technologies, and AI capabilities.
- Experience designing scalable enterprise solutions across AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Knowledge of enterprise applications, relational databases, ERP technologies, APIs, integration patterns, middleware, event-driven architectures, enterprise data architecture, Master Data Management, analytics, and data governance.
- Strong understanding of enterprise AI architecture, autonomous agents, AI governance, security, compliance, responsible AI, and AI-ready data strategies.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executive and technical audiences and influence CIOs, CTOs, business executives, and enterprise architects.
- Demonstrated organizational impact through reusable architecture assets, frameworks, standards, or thought leadership adopted beyond an immediate team.
- Preferred: Salesforce certifications, Salesforce Certified Technical Architect or progress toward advanced Architect certifications.
- Preferred: experience as a Solution Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solution Architect, Technical Architect, Enterprise Architect, or equivalent customer-facing technical leader.
- Preferred: experience integrating Salesforce with enterprise applications, analytics platforms, collaboration tools, and partner technologies.
- Preferred: familiarity with TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent enterprise architecture frameworks.
- Preferred: experience with design thinking, value-based selling, executive consulting, enterprise transformation, software development, and AI-powered development tools.
Benefits
- Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The role may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and other benefits; the stated salary range is base salary only.
- Salesforce provides reasonable accommodations during the application and recruiting process.
About Salesforce
Salesforce builds cloud-based customer relationship management software and a broader Customer 360 platform for sales, service, marketing, commerce, and analytics, sold by subscription to businesses and public-sector organizations. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, it trades on the NYSE under the symbol CRM. Its portfolio includes Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, MuleSoft integration, Tableau analytics, and Slack for collaboration, with extensive developer tools and APIs.