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