Principal, Technical Architect
InformaticaBase Salary
$148k - $232k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as a pre-sales, customer-facing technical expert who aligns Salesforce solutions with customer digital transformation and cloud adoption strategies.
- Support early and middle sales-cycle activities, including solution alignment, proofs of concept, and technical deep dives into AI and data products.
- Act as a subject matter expert in business strategy, application architecture, data, integration, security, and AI.
- Understand business and technical requirements and determine appropriate technologies for customer-driven architectures.
- Lead business and technical discussions around organizational change programs.
- Develop repeatable propositions and go-to-market strategies for sales teams.
- Design and manage agentic AI frameworks and autonomous agents, optimize LLM prompts, and architect enterprise AI solutions.
- Use Salesforce Data Cloud and Salesforce Flow to unify customer data and orchestrate AI-driven business processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or MIS.
- Hands-on experience in customer-facing architect or consultant roles.
- Deep knowledge of enterprise software applications, software delivery, and system architecture.
- Coding experience and willingness to work with Apex, Node, Python, Java, or similar technologies.
- Strong understanding of database fundamentals, data management tools, and integration architectures and patterns.
- Proficiency with software development and application lifecycle management, including Git, test automation, CI/CD, and release management.
- Understanding of network, application, and information security principles.
- Direct experience with agentic AI frameworks, autonomous agents, prompt engineering, RAG, chain-of-thought, enterprise AI architecture, API gateways, and data pipelines.
- Deep understanding of Salesforce Data Cloud and advanced proficiency with Salesforce Flow.
- Excellent communication, leadership, relationship-building, strategic problem-solving, and time-management skills, including communication with executive audiences.
- Salesforce Certifications and/or Trailhead Superbadges are preferred.
- Experience with design thinking, persona-based discovery, compliance and risk mitigation, graduate study, or a related area is a bonus.
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.
- Applications are accepted until 10/31/2026.
About Informatica
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