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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.\nThe Experience\nSalesforce Professional Services is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to support our Life Sciences customers across the EMEA North region (Benelux, the Nordics and Switzerland) from a base in the Netherlands, within the Customer Success Group - Professional Services. You serve as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform expert to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical technology organisations, helping them turn business priorities into scalable, secure and maintainable solutions.\nYou work with customers and partners to define the solution vision, lead technical architecture and guide implementation across commercial operations, medical affairs, patient services and, where relevant, clinical engagement. You connect industry needs with platform capabilities while helping customers manage complexity, reduce technical debt and realise long-term value.\nThe role combines hands-on technical expertise with consulting and leadership. You engage developers, business stakeholders and executives, align multiple delivery teams and help customers make informed architecture decisions within a regulated environment.\nLife Sciences is your primary focus. Depending on business demand, you also contribute your architecture expertise to engagements in other industries across EMEA North.\nTravel is part of the role. We plan it in advance where possible and aim to give you the flexibility to combine the demands of the role with your personal life.\nWhat You’ll Actually Be Doing\nServe as a trusted advisor to Life Sciences customers, connecting business objectives with Salesforce architecture, delivery roadmaps and measurable outcomes.\nLead architecture for complex engagements, coordinate the work of solution and technical architects, and align decisions across customers, partners and Salesforce teams.\nTranslate requirements for healthcare professional (HCP) and healthcare organisation (HCO) engagement, medical affairs, patient support, or other commercial and customer-facing Life Sciences processes into practical solution designs.\nDesign data, integration and security architectures connecting Salesforce with enterprise platforms, master data, content repositories and relevant clinical or safety systems.\nPartner with customer quality, privacy, security and regulatory teams to translate applicable requirements into access controls, consent handling, auditability, validation evidence and release governance.\nReview architecture, implementation approaches and key deliverables to ensure performance, scalability and maintainability. Guide configuration and development, and contribute hands-on where required.\nShape migration and rollout strategies that address data quality, legacy applications, global standards and local market needs across countries in the region.\nWork closely with project and engagement managers to plan delivery, manage dependencies and risks, resolve issues and set clear customer expectations.\nEvaluate AI and automation use cases with customers, defining appropriate data access, human oversight and evaluation criteria.\nMentor customers, partners and colleagues, contribute reusable patterns and industry knowledge, and support pre-sales activities where required.\n You’re Our Person If...\nYou are authorised to work in the Netherlands, holding a valid work permit where required.\nYou have 8+ years of enterprise architecture or technical consulting experience, including 4+ years leading Salesforce implementation projects.\nYou have experience delivering technology solutions for pharmaceutical, biotechnology or medical technology organisations, with knowledge of one or more areas such as commercial engagement, medical affairs, patient services or clinical operations.\nYou have strong Salesforce application design skills, supported by experience in data modelling, integration, identity, security and platform scalability.\nYou have hands-on configuration and development experience, including Salesforce customisation and coding in object-oriented languages.\nYou have experience with application programming interfaces (APIs), enterprise integration patterns, data migration and the design of connected enterprise applications.\nYou understand delivery in regulated environments and can work with customer specialists on privacy, consent, data integrity and validation requirements.\nYou have a proven ability to lead technical teams, manage architecture decisions and deliver through agile methods across distributed, multidisciplinary teams.\nYou have strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills, with the ability to explain technical trade-offs and support senior business and technology stakeholders in making decisions.\nYou are willing to work on engagements outside Life Sciences, in other industries and customer segments, when business demand requires it.\nYou work through complex problems with customers and teams, and keep your technical knowledge current as the platform evolves.\nYou can travel across EMEA North, and occasionally internationally, according to customer needs.\nYou have professional working proficiency in English, written and spoken.\nExperience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (for example extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).\n Even Better If...\nYou have experience with Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud and its commercial, medical or patient services capabilities.\nYou have experience with HCP and HCO master data, omnichannel engagement, medical content workflows or patient programme integrations.\nYou have experience planning CRM modernisation, legacy platform migration or multi-country deployments for Life Sciences customers.\nYou have experience with Agentforce, enterprise data platforms or AI-assisted development tools, including an understanding of their strengths, limitations and governance needs.\nYou hold Salesforce architecture certifications (such as the Certified Technical Architect (CTA) credential), or have equivalent demonstrated experience.\nYou have experience leading enterprise transformation and building relationships with senior business and technology leaders.\nYou have professional working proficiency in Dutch.\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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