Senior Technical Architect, Life Sciences
Salesforce2 days ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior
Responsibilities
- Advise Life Sciences customers by connecting business objectives with Salesforce architecture, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
- Lead architecture for complex engagements and coordinate solution and technical architects across customer, partner, and Salesforce teams.
- Translate commercial, medical affairs, patient services, and clinical engagement requirements into solution designs.
- Design data, integration, identity, security, migration, and connected enterprise application architectures.
- Translate privacy, consent, auditability, validation, and regulatory requirements into technical controls and governance.
- Review architecture and implementation deliverables for performance, scalability, and maintainability while guiding configuration and development.
- Plan migration and rollout strategies for legacy applications, data quality issues, global standards, and local market needs.
- Partner with project and engagement managers to manage delivery dependencies, risks, issues, and customer expectations.
- Evaluate AI and automation use cases, including data access, human oversight, and evaluation criteria.
- Mentor customers, partners, and colleagues, contribute reusable patterns and industry knowledge, and support pre-sales activities.
Requirements
- Authorization to work in the Netherlands, with a valid work permit where required.
- 8+ years of enterprise architecture or technical consulting experience, including 4+ years leading Salesforce implementation projects.
- Experience delivering technology solutions for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or medical technology organizations.
- Strong Salesforce application design skills covering data modelling, integration, identity, security, and platform scalability.
- Hands-on Salesforce configuration and development experience, including customization and coding in object-oriented languages.
- Experience with APIs, enterprise integration patterns, data migration, and connected enterprise applications.
- Understanding of regulated-environment delivery, including privacy, consent, data integrity, and validation requirements.
- Ability to lead technical teams, manage architecture decisions, and deliver through agile methods across distributed multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder decision-support skills.
- Willingness to work across other industries and customer segments when business demand requires it.
- Ability to travel across EMEA North and occasionally internationally.
- Professional working proficiency in English.
- Preferred experience with Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud, HCP/HCO master data, omnichannel engagement, medical content workflows, patient program integrations, CRM modernization, legacy migration, or multi-country deployments.
- Preferred experience with Agentforce, enterprise data platforms, AI-assisted development tools, and AI governance.
- Salesforce architecture certifications such as Certified Technical Architect, or equivalent demonstrated experience, are preferred.
- Enterprise transformation leadership, senior stakeholder relationship-building, and professional Dutch proficiency are preferred.
Benefits
- Benefits and resources are described as supporting balance and personal wellbeing.
- The role is based in the Netherlands, covers EMEA North, includes planned customer travel, and may require occasional international travel.
- Salesforce provides reasonable accommodations during the application and recruiting process.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
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.