# Core Technical Architect

**Company**: Salesforce
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $148,190 - $269,080 annually
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Core Technical Architect, you are a pre-sales, customer-facing expert. You apply broad technical skills and business acumen, to help sales teams align Salesforce solutions with our customers’ digital transformation and cloud adoption strategies.

Responsibilities:

- Act as a subject matter expert in business strategy, application architecture, data, integration, security, and AI.

- Use a consultative approach to understand business and technical requirements.

- Determine optimal technologies to leverage in customer-driven architectures based on product knowledge and industry standards.

- Lead discussions around change programs from both a business and technical perspective.

- Develop repeatable propositions and go-to-market strategies for sales teams.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with the following skills, which are critical for designing modern, AI-powered solutions:

- Agentic AI & Agentforce: Direct experience developing and managing agentic AI frameworks and autonomous agents.

- Prompt Engineering: Proven ability to optimize prompts for LLMs using techniques like RAG and chain-of-thought.

- Generative AI Architecture: Experience architecting enterprise AI solutions, including API gateways and data pipelines.

- Data360: Deep understanding of Salesforce Data Cloud for unifying and activating customer data.

- Flow & Orchestration: Advanced proficiency with Salesforce Flow for complex AI-driven business processes.

Technical Proficiency:

- Deep knowledge of enterprise software applications, delivery, and system architecture.

- Coding experience and willingness to work with code (Apex, Node, Python, Java, etc.)

- Strong understanding of database fundamentals and data management tools.

- Competence in integration architectures/patterns

- Proficiency with software development and application lifecycle management (git, test automation, CI/CD, release management)

- Solid grasp of network, application, and information security principles.

Strategic & Soft Skills:

- B.S., M.S. or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering or MIS

- Salesforce Certifications and/or Trailhead Superbadges.

- Excellent communication, leadership, and relationship-building skills with executive audiences.

- Strategic problem-solving, thought leadership, and effective time management for multiple projects.

- Hands-on experience in customer-facing architect or consultant roles.

Benefits:

- Time off programs

- Medical, dental, vision

- Mental health support

- Paid parental leave

- Life and disability insurance

- 401(k)

- Employee stock purchasing program

## Skills

### Required
- Agentic AI & Agentforce
- Prompt Engineering
- Generative AI Architecture
- Data360
- Flow & Orchestration
- enterprise software applications
- coding
- database fundamentals
- integration architectures
- software development
- network security
- information security

### Nice to have
- design thinking
- persona-based discovery
- compliance and risk mitigation

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