Informatica

Forward Deployed Engineer

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2 days ago
Johannesburg, South AfricaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end architecture, build, deployment, and production handoff of agentic AI solutions for strategic enterprise customers.
  • Design and ship Agentforce systems involving agent logic, tool calls, multi-agent orchestration, deterministic guardrails, and enterprise integration patterns.
  • Own data modeling, processing pipelines, and data readiness across Salesforce Data 360, Snowflake, Databricks, and customer platforms.
  • Resolve complex data integration, model deployment, orchestration, performance, and deployment issues.
  • Build agent performance dashboards and customer KPI reporting to track deployment health and business outcomes.
  • Develop proofs of concept and MVPs, create reusable frameworks and playbooks, and codify customer delivery learnings.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, pair sessions, and shared codebases, while providing technical leadership on critical deployments.
  • Partner with Deployment Strategists, customer engineers, architects, executives, Product, and Engineering to deliver solutions and influence the Agentforce roadmap.
  • Experiment with emerging AI tools, models, and frameworks and share findings with teams and customers.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of software engineering or technical delivery experience with end-to-end ownership of scalable production systems in enterprise AI, cloud, or SaaS environments.
  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Expertise in at least one of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or Apex, with familiarity with the others.
  • Production experience integrating LLMs, using frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex, and applying prompt engineering and responsible AI practices.
  • Deep experience in data modeling, processing, and analytics, with proficiency across Salesforce Data 360, Snowflake, or Databricks.
  • Deep Salesforce platform expertise including Agentforce, Apex, LWC, Flows, and Salesforce APIs.
  • Experience mentoring technical talent and creating reusable assets such as frameworks, playbooks, or internal tooling.
  • Clear communication with engineering peers, customer architects, and executive stakeholders.
  • Entrepreneurial, delivery-oriented judgment and active curiosity about evolving AI and data technologies.
  • Willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time and work embedded with customer engineers.
  • Preferred: Salesforce certifications such as Administrator, Platform Developer I/II, Agentforce Specialist, or System Architect.
  • Preferred: familiarity with DevOps or CI/CD practices, observability tooling, or data governance frameworks.
  • Preferred: experience architecting multi-cloud, multi-system enterprise AI solutions for Global 500 customers.
  • Preferred: experience influencing enterprise software product roadmaps through field engineering insight, open-source contributions, technical writing, or conference presentations.

Benefits

  • Salesforce offers benefits and resources intended to support balance and employee well-being.
  • The role includes approximately 25% travel and customer-embedded work.
  • Salesforce provides AI tools and resources intended to accelerate employee impact.

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About Informatica

5,001-10,000 employees

Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com

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