# Sr. Technical Architect / Technical Architect Director - PACE (Products, Auto, Consumer, Or Energy Industry)

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

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## Description

Salesforce Professional Services is looking for a Senior Technical Architect / Technical Architect Director to serve as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform expert to the company's largest, most complex enterprise customers.

**Responsibilities**

- Serve as a trusted, strategic advisor and Salesforce platform expert to C-level stakeholders at high-profile enterprise clients

- Architect multi-cloud technology solutions across application, data, integration, and security domains to meet client needs

- Guide and lead cross-functional teams of architects and developers; for Director-level, direct people management of technical teams

- Facilitate executive workshops, drive program governance, and manage partner/customer negotiations

- Identify and proactively manage risk areas, seeing issues through to resolution

- Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions maintainable

- Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and adopting emerging technologies that drive business value

- Lead internal strategic initiatives to grow the consulting practice; contribute to the community's knowledge base and thought leadership

**Minimum Requirements**

- 8+ years of enterprise architecture or consulting experience (10+ years for Director level)

- 4+ years leading Salesforce Core Projects (Director level: 2-5 years of direct people management additionally required)

- Strong application design skills combined with data, integration, and security architecture expertise

- Strong presentation and communication skills , able to present and defend a point of view to varied audiences, including C-level

- Proven ability to analyze, design, and optimize business processes via technology and integration

- Agile methodology fluency and a collaborative, high-integrity leadership style

**Preferred Requirements**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent work experience)

- Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) credential, or active progress toward it, or multiple Salesforce Architecture certifications

- Strong Enterprise Architecture background

- Experience with AI-powered development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Agentforce for Developers)

- Experience leading a technical team or workstream, with a passion for mentoring talent

- Ability to build and maintain relationships with C-level executives and senior technology leaders

- Experience in Consumer Goods Cloud, Retail Execution/Trade Promotion Management, or the Consumer Goods industry is a plus

- Travel may be required depending on client needs

## Skills

### Required
- Salesforce
- enterprise architecture
- consulting
- application design
- data architecture
- integration architecture
- security architecture
- presentation
- communication
- Agile methodology

### Nice to have
- Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA)
- AI-powered development tools
- technical team management
- mentoring
- Consumer Goods Cloud
- Retail Execution/Trade Promotion Management
- Consumer Goods industry

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