# AI Technical Architect

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

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## Description

Salesforce is seeking an AI Technical Architect to operate at the intersection of strategy and execution, shaping the long-term technical vision for AI adoption and coordinating people, systems, and processes to turn that vision into working solutions.

**Responsibilities:**

- Define and evolve the technical architecture strategy for AI initiatives, aligning with broader business and platform roadmaps.

- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend where they create differentiated value.

- Partner with delivery, product, and engineering leadership to translate business goals into scalable, secure, and maintainable AI architectures.

- Establish architectural standards, patterns, and best practices for AI solution design across teams.

- Assess technical risk, feasibility, and total cost of ownership for proposed AI initiatives.

- Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure AI solutions are designed, built, and deployed cohesively.

- Serve as the technical glue between strategy and execution, ensuring architecture decisions are implemented consistently across squads and projects.

- Facilitate technical governance forums, architecture reviews, and design decision checkpoints.

- Drive alignment between multiple parallel AI workstreams, resolving dependencies and technical conflicts.

- Mentor and enable technical teams and solution architects on AI-first design principles.

- Ship working AI solutions hands-on, prototyping, building, and iterating quickly.

- Take ideas from concept to production, personally building agents, automations, and integrations when needed to prove value fast.

- Champion a bias for action, favoring working demos and MVPs over long design documents.

- Continuously experiment with new AI tools and techniques, bringing working proofs-of-concept back to the team.

- Balance speed of shipping with architectural soundness, ensuring builds are scalable beyond the prototype stage.

- Own end-to-end technical quality of AI solutions from design through production readiness.

- Define and monitor architecture health metrics.

- Ensure compliance with data governance, responsible AI, and security standards across all AI implementations.

- Provide technical escalation support for complex AI/architecture issues across the portfolio.

**Requirements:**

- 10+ years of experience in software/solution architecture, with demonstrated depth in AI/ML or agentic systems architecture.

- Proven experience architecting and delivering enterprise-scale AI solutions.

- Strong grasp of cloud-native architecture, integration patterns, and platform scalability principles.

- Demonstrated ability to operate as both a strategic thinker and hands-on technical orchestrator across multiple teams.

- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

- Experience with Salesforce platform architecture is highly valued.

**Nice to Have:**

- Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) or equivalent architecture certification.

- Experience leading AI governance, responsible AI, or AI risk frameworks.

- Track record of mentoring architects and senior engineers.

- Exposure to multi-org, multi-cloud, or complex enterprise topology environments.

- Hands-on experience building and deploying AI agents.

- Practical experience with AI tools such as Gemini, Cursor, and Claude.

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive benefits package

- Opportunities for career growth and development

- Collaborative and dynamic work environment

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- ML
- cloud-native architecture
- integration patterns
- platform scalability
- Salesforce platform architecture

### Nice to have
- Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA)
- AI governance
- responsible AI
- AI risk frameworks
- multi-org
- multi-cloud
- complex enterprise topology environments
- Gemini
- Cursor
- Claude

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