# Distinguished Solution Architect

**Company**: Salesforce
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Distinguished Solution Architect to shape architectural strategy, influence product and technology direction, and serve as a recognized authority on enterprise solution architecture. You will work on Salesforce's most complex, high-value customer engagements across industries and business models,from pre-sales through adoption,while leading executive-level architecture conversations with business and technology leaders.

**Your Impact & Responsibilities**

- Define and lead enterprise solution architecture strategy for Salesforce's most strategic and complex customer engagements.

- Architect end-to-end Agentic Enterprise solutions leveraging Agentforce, Data Cloud, and the broader Salesforce Platform.

- Design enterprise AI interoperability and scalable architectures across Salesforce and third-party ecosystems.

- Develop thought leadership on enterprise architecture, AI governance, security, compliance, and responsible AI.

- Create reusable architecture frameworks, reference architectures, best practices, and implementation patterns used across Solution Engineering.

- Lead executive architecture workshops, technical discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and strategic solution design engagements.

- Translate complex business challenges into scalable enterprise solution architectures and transformation roadmaps.

- Build compelling solution proposals that balance immediate business value with long-term architectural strategy.

- Partner with executive stakeholders to shape technical strategy before active sales cycles begin.

- Design solutions focused on customer adoption, consumption, business outcomes, and long-term success.

- Provide architectural governance and implementation guidance for Salesforce Professional Services and partner organizations.

- Collaborate across Solution Engineering, Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, Professional Services, and the partner ecosystem.

- Influence Salesforce product strategy, architecture standards, and technical best practices.

- Establish architectural governance and technical handoff standards that ensure solution integrity throughout the customer lifecycle.

- Contribute to AI Centers of Excellence, innovation initiatives, and technical strategy programs.

- Publish thought leadership on enterprise architecture, AI transformation, Agentforce, Data Cloud, and Salesforce platform strategy.

- Lead architecture enablement programs, architecture forums, and technical education initiatives.

- Mentor Solution Architects and Solution Engineers while establishing standards for architectural excellence.

- Represent Salesforce at executive briefings, conferences, customer events, and industry forums.

- Achieve annual business objectives and strategic customer engagement goals.

- Maintain accurate architectural documentation and customer engagement records.

- Continuously expand expertise across Salesforce technologies, AI capabilities, enterprise architecture, and emerging technologies.

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems (MIS), or a related technical discipline.

- Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in Solution Engineering, Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Technical Consulting, Software Engineering, or another customer-facing technical role.

- Extensive experience designing enterprise solutions for complex business and technology environments.

- Deep expertise across multiple Salesforce platform capabilities, including Agentforce, Data Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, MuleSoft, Slack, Tableau, Platform technologies, and AI capabilities.

- Experience designing scalable enterprise solutions across public cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.

- Knowledge of enterprise applications, relational databases, ERP technologies, APIs, integration patterns, middleware, event-driven architectures, and modern enterprise application design.

- Strong understanding of enterprise AI architecture, autonomous agents, AI governance, security, compliance, and responsible AI.

- Knowledge of enterprise data architecture, Master Data Management, analytics, data governance, and AI-ready data strategies.

- Strong oral, written, presentation, collaboration, and interpersonal communication skills.

- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executive and technical audiences.

- Ability to work collaboratively across cross-functional teams to solve complex technical problems in diverse and dynamic organizational environments.

- Experience influencing executive stakeholders, including CIOs, CTOs, business executives, and enterprise architects.

- Demonstrated organizational impact through reusable architecture assets, frameworks, standards, or thought leadership adopted beyond an immediate team.

## Skills

### Required
- Agentforce
- Data Cloud
- Salesforce Platform
- Enterprise Architecture
- AI Governance
- Security
- Compliance
- Responsible AI
- Cloud Computing
- Integration Technologies
- Middleware
- Event-driven Architectures
- Enterprise Application Design
- Master Data Management
- Analytics
- Data Governance

### Nice to have
- Salesforce certifications
- Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA)
- TOGAF
- Zachman
- Design Thinking
- Value-based Selling
- Executive Consulting
- Enterprise Transformation Initiatives
- Software Development
- AI-powered Development Tools
- Modern Engineering Practices

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