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