Principal Architect
InformaticaResponsibilities
- Lead agentic AI architecture and serve as the aligned architect for strategic financial-services accounts.
- Run discovery and organizational assessments, define current- and future-state architecture, and guide decisions on agent orchestration, MCP, A2A, headless design, data foundations, trust, and governance.
- Build working prototypes and proof-of-value assets using customer data and objects, code, and AI-assisted development tools.
- Deliver engagement models covering agentic operating economics, governed headless experiences, multi-agent systems, and executive North Star architecture.
- Package architecture, data dictionaries, process maps, and agent metadata for partners, systems integrators, and delivery teams.
- Advise CIOs, CTOs, Chief Architects, and business leaders on financial-services outcomes, regulation, data residency, model risk, and operating-model constraints.
- Represent Salesforce in executive briefings, architecture review boards, and industry events.
- Mentor architects and account teams and contribute reference architectures, points of view, and reusable assets.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of enterprise or solution architecture experience, including significant customer-facing financial-services work, is expected in the role description.
- A B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS, or a related field is required.
- At least four years of professional experience is required.
- Deep hands-on Salesforce platform experience, including Financial Services Cloud, Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, and Data 360, is required.
- Enterprise integration experience, ideally with MuleSoft and API-led design, is required.
- Practical experience designing and building AI solutions involving LLM-based agents, retrieval and grounding, agent orchestration, MCP, and A2A is required.
- Candidates must personally prototype with Apex, JavaScript/Node, Python, or similar code and be comfortable with Git-based workflows.
- Working knowledge of financial-services privacy, data residency, model risk management, auditability, and AI governance requirements is required.
- Strong executive presence, communication, presentation, collaboration, interpersonal, and team-based technical problem-solving skills are required.
- Preferred qualifications include Salesforce certifications, progress toward CTA, experience on the customer or systems-integrator side of large financial-services transformations, process intelligence or agentic-operations exposure, and published or reusable technical content.
Benefits
- Salesforce offers 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 posting states that compensation may include incentive compensation, equity, and benefits depending on the role, but no base salary amount is provided.
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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