Principal/Distinguished, Applied AI Architect — Financial Services Regulated Industries Architecture (Internal Only)
Salesforce1 day ago
Base Salary
$173k - $296k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead agentic AI architecture for strategic financial-services accounts from discovery through production handoff.
- Conduct organizational assessments and define current-state, future-state, data, integration, orchestration, governance, and interoperability architectures.
- Build working prototypes and proof-of-value assets on customer data and objects using code and AI-assisted development tools.
- Deliver and extend engagement models covering agentic operating economics, headless experiences, governed multi-agent systems, and enterprise 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, regulatory constraints, data residency, model risk, and operating models.
- Mentor architects and account teams and contribute reference architectures, points of view, and reusable assets.
- Collaborate with account executives, solutions engineers, professional services, forward-deployed engineers, partners, and product teams.
Requirements
- 10+ years of enterprise or solution architecture experience, including significant customer-facing work in banking, insurance, wealth or asset management, or payments.
- Deep hands-on experience with the Salesforce platform, including Financial Services Cloud, Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, and Data 360, plus enterprise integration experience ideally using MuleSoft and API-led design.
- Current practical experience designing and building AI solutions involving LLM-based agents, retrieval and grounding, agent orchestration, MCP, and A2A.
- Ability to personally prototype with Apex, JavaScript/Node, Python, or similar technologies and work in Git-based workflows.
- Working knowledge of financial-services privacy, data residency, model risk management, auditability, and AI governance requirements.
- Ability to lead contested architecture discussions with Chief Architects and drive decisions with executive stakeholders.
- Team-oriented approach to sharing assets, working within aligned coverage, and mentoring others.
- Preferred Salesforce certifications include Agentforce Specialist, Data Cloud Consultant, Application Architect, or System Architect, or progress toward CTA.
- Preferred experience includes large financial-services transformations on the customer or systems-integrator side, process intelligence or agentic operations tooling, and published points of view, conference talks, or reusable assets.
Benefits
- Salesforce 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 benefits; the posting states that the listed salary is base salary only.
- Salesforce provides reasonable accommodations during the application and recruiting process.
Tech Stack
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.