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Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword - it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.\nReady to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.\nAs a Distinguished Technical Architect, you will be one of the most senior and experienced technical architecture practitioners within the Solution Engineering organization. You will play a defining role in helping Salesforce's most strategic customers become Agentic Enterprises by designing transformative, technical architectures that leverage the full Salesforce Platform, including Agentforce, Data Cloud, and other platform capabilities.\nThis is not simply an execution role. At the Distinguished level, you are expected to shape technical architecture strategy, influence Salesforce's product and technology direction, and serve as a recognized authority on technical solution architecture both internally and externally. 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.\nYou will be a central member of the Solution Engineering Architecture organization, whose mission is to inspire, architect, prove, and enable customer success. You will model what it means to be a trusted technical advisor, helping organizations realize measurable business outcomes through the Salesforce Platform and AI-powered transformation.\nWhy This Role?\nModern customer experiences span every stage of the customer lifecycle and increasingly rely on connected data, AI, automation, and digital engagement. These experiences require integrated architectures that leverage the breadth of the Salesforce Platform alongside enterprise applications, data platforms, integration technologies, and partner ecosystems.\nAs a Distinguished Technical Architect, you will establish technical architecture patterns, reference architectures, and best practices that accelerate customer success across the Salesforce ecosystem.\nYour Impact & Responsibilities\nStrategic Architecture Leadership\nDefine and lead technical solution architecture strategy for Salesforce's most strategic and complex customer engagements.\nArchitect end-to-end Agentic Enterprise solutions leveraging Agentforce, Data Cloud, and the broader Salesforce Platform.\nDesign enterprise AI interoperability and scalable technical architectures across Salesforce and third-party ecosystems.\nDevelop thought leadership on technical architecture, AI governance, security, compliance, and responsible AI.\nCreate reusable architecture frameworks, reference architectures, best practices, and implementation patterns used across Solution Engineering.\nCustomer Engagement\nLead executive architecture workshops, technical discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and strategic solution design engagements.\nTranslate complex business challenges into scalable technical solution architectures and transformation roadmaps.\nBuild compelling solution proposals that balance immediate business value with long-term architectural strategy.\nPartner with executive stakeholders to shape technical strategy before active sales cycles begin.\nDesign solutions focused on customer adoption, consumption, business outcomes, and long-term success.\nProvide architectural governance and implementation guidance for Salesforce Professional Services and partner organizations.\nCross-Functional Leadership\nCollaborate across Solution Engineering, Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, Professional Services, and the partner ecosystem.\nInfluence Salesforce product strategy, architecture standards, and technical best practices.\nEstablish architectural governance and technical handoff standards that ensure solution integrity throughout the customer lifecycle.\nContribute to AI Centers of Excellence, innovation initiatives, and technical strategy programs.\nThought Leadership & Enablement\nPublish thought leadership on technical architecture, AI transformation, Agentforce, Data Cloud, and Salesforce platform strategy.\nLead architecture enablement programs, architecture forums, and technical education initiatives.\nMentor Technical Architects and Solution Engineers while establishing standards for architectural excellence.\nRepresent Salesforce at executive briefings, conferences, customer events, and industry forums.\nOperational Excellence\nAchieve annual business objectives and strategic customer engagement goals.\nMaintain accurate architectural documentation and customer engagement records.\nContinuously expand expertise across Salesforce technologies, AI capabilities, technical architecture, and emerging technologies.\nRequired Qualifications\nEducation\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems (MIS), or a related technical discipline.\nExperience\nMinimum of 4 years of professional experience in Solution Engineering, Technical Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Technical Consulting, Software Engineering, or another customer-facing technical role.\nExtensive experience designing technical solutions for complex business and technology environments.\nDeep 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.\nExperience designing scalable technical solutions across public cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.\nTechnical Knowledge\nKnowledge of enterprise applications, relational databases, ERP technologies, APIs, integration patterns, middleware, event-driven architectures, and modern enterprise application design.\nStrong understanding of enterprise AI architecture, autonomous agents, AI governance, security, compliance, and responsible AI.\nKnowledge of enterprise data architecture, Master Data Management, analytics, data governance, and AI-ready data strategies.\nCommunication & Leadership\nStrong oral, written, presentation, collaboration, and interpersonal communication skills.\nDemonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executive and technical audiences.\nAbility to work collaboratively across cross-functional teams to solve complex technical problems in diverse and dynamic organizational environments.\nExperience influencing executive stakeholders, including CIOs, CTOs, business executives, and enterprise architects.\nDemonstrated organizational impact through reusable architecture assets, frameworks, standards, or thought leadership adopted beyond an immediate team.\nPreferred Qualifications\nSalesforce certifications across one or more product domains.\nSalesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) or progress toward advanced Architect certifications.\nPrevious experience as a Solution Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solution Architect, Technical Architect, Enterprise Architect, or equivalent customer-facing technical leadership role.\nExperience integrating Salesforce with enterprise applications, analytics platforms, collaboration tools, and partner technologies.\nFamiliarity with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent methodologies.\nExperience with design thinking, value-based selling, executive consulting, and enterprise transformation initiatives.\nSoftware development experience with modern programming languages and enterprise application development.\nExperience working with AI-powered development tools and modern engineering practices.\nUnleash Your Potential\nWhen you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance andbe your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you cando your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future - but to redefine what’s possible - for yourself, for AI, and the world.\nAccommodations\nIf you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.\nPlease note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options.\nPosting Statement\nSalesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications - without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. 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