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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.\nApplications for this position will be accepted on an ongoing basis.This role leads the advisory, architecture, and delivery of enterprise Data Foundation engagements for Salesforce Professional Services customers. Drawing on deep data experience (10+ years for the Senior Technical Architect level; 15+ years for the Director level), you run discovery, set the technical vision, design/approve the target architecture, and drive delivery across a progressive, customer-calibrated maturity journey - advising customer stakeholders (up to CxO level at the Director tier) along the way.\nYou bring the Data Foundation Delivery to life, including core data capabilities, associated frameworks, and the ability to operate across one or more of the platform stack (Salesforce Data 360, Informatica IDMC, MuleSoft). As a Salesforce practitioner/leader, you help customers bring the Salesforce ecosystem into the broader landscape of technology investments they've already made - balancing platform-agnostic execution (interoperable, open-standards, multi-vendor) and platform-centric execution (Salesforce-native), so the data foundation fits the customer's reality rather than forcing a single stack. Every foundation is built with governance, quality, security, and privacy embedded from day one, and serves both traditional analytics for people and agentic AI for machines.\nYou are a hands-on practitioner of AI-augmented professional services delivery and an emerging-to-established thought leader on the agentic future of the SaaS industry - applying a forward-looking perspective on enterprise data, AI agents, and the SaaS ecosystem to how you advise and deliver, and contributing that experience back to the practice's point of view. This is a customer-billable delivery role - a hands-on/senior individual contributor accountable for engagement outcomes and technical leadership, not an internal people-management position.\nWhat You Will Do (Key Responsibilities)\nAdvisory & Strategy\nLead discovery: stakeholder interviews, current-state assessment, use-case and KPI definition; at senior levels, serve as trusted advisor to customer CxOs and shape the business case\nAssess data maturity and build a phased, customer-calibrated roadmap\nAlign customer stakeholders and sponsors; contribute to/own the business case and expected outcomes\nFrame guidance as adaptable options, meeting customers at their entry point (customer-360, regulatory governance, analytics modernization, unstructured/RAG)\nRepresent the practice in complex, high-stakes engagements\nArchitecture & Delivery\nDesign/set/approve target-state architecture across one or more of the platform stack (Salesforce Data 360 / Informatica IDMC / MuleSoft)\nDeliver both platform-agnostic and platform-centric execution - integrate Salesforce cleanly with (or position it as the center of gravity within) the customer's existing multi-vendor technology investments (data platforms, warehouses, lakes, and tools)\nValidate architecture decisions through scoped POCs before production build\nDeliver working software/value every phase - no big-bang, governance-first discipline\nEmbed governance, quality, security, and privacy from the start\nBuild for dual consumption: analytics for people and agentic AI for machines\nDelivery Oversight & Risk (Director-level emphasis)\nProvide architectural governance and quality assurance across concurrent engagements\nOwn delivery risk: exec buy-in, business engagement, scope, and dependency management\nAI-Augmented Delivery\nApply/set the standard for AI-augmented professional services delivery - use AI tools (Claude Code, Gemini, Lucid AI, NotebookLM) across the engagement lifecycle to compress effort and raise quality\nBuild (or define the approach for) reusable, capability-driven (not tool-centric) assets: prompt templates, skills, and agents that deliver a capability regardless of underlying tool\nWork with human-at-the-helm rigor so AI-accelerated output stays trusted, auditable, and grounded; at senior levels, set measurable AI-acceleration targets and quality guardrails\nContribute proven patterns and assets back to the practice's playbook, accelerators, and reference IP\nIndustry Thought Leadership (Agentic SaaS Future)\nBring (or own) a forward-looking perspective on the agentic future of the SaaS industry into engagements - helping customers build AI-ready, agent-native data foundations\nContribute to (or shape) the practice's point of view - POVs, reference patterns, and enablement on where enterprise data and AI agents are heading\nGrow as, or represent the practice as, an internal and customer-facing voice on agentic delivery\nGovernance & Enablement\nEstablish stewardship, RACI, and sustainable operating models with the customer\nProduce clear, concise, executive-ready summaries alongside deep technical detail\nProvide hands-on technical guidance/leadership to Consultants, Architects, and (at Director level) Senior Advisors on the engagement; hand off with runbooks and a sustainable operating model\nAuthor and evolve the Data Foundation Delivery Playbook, accelerators, and reference IP (Director level)\nWhat You Bring (Preferred Experience)\nUnified Identity & Harmonization - identity resolution, match/merge, golden records\nMaster Data Management - domains, survivorship, hierarchies, 360 views\nUnstructured Data Management - document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, RAG grounding\nData Architecture & Semantic Modeling - conceptual/logical/physical models, semantic layer, glossary\nData Integration, Orchestration & Activation - API-led connectivity, CDC, real-time events, activation\nData Trust, Security & Privacy - classification, access control, masking, Einstein Trust Layer\nData Governance & Stewardship - catalog, lineage, data quality, stewardship & policy\nIndustry Data Models & Accelerators - FSC, Health Cloud, Manufacturing Cloud blueprints\nData Platform & Infrastructure - lakehouse, compute, catalog, cloud foundation\nAnalytics, BI & Data Observability - dashboards, self-service BI, freshness/quality monitoring\nRequired Qualifications\n10+ years (Senior Technical Architect) / 15+ years (Director) of hands-on data experience across data & analytics consulting, engineering, architecture, MDM, integration, and governance\nDemonstrated delivery/leadership of enterprise data platform, MDM, integration, governance, or AI-readiness programs\nHands-on/deep expertise with one or more of Salesforce Data 360, Informatica IDMC, MuleSoft\nStrong-to-authority-level data modeling (conceptual/logical/physical) and semantic/metadata modeling\nWorking-to-strong command of data governance, quality, security, and privacy (e.g., GDPR/CCPA/HIPAA)\nExecutive-grade communication, up to proven CxO-level advisory at senior levels; ability to guide delivery teams and lead multi-workstream delivery\nExperience integrating a vendor platform into heterogeneous/complex enterprise landscapes - balancing platform-agnostic and platform-centric approaches\nHands-on-to-deep fluency with AI-augmented delivery - using AI tools as a core part of the workflow and building reusable prompt/skill/agent assets\nA forward-looking, and at senior levels recognized/published, perspective on enterprise data, AI, and the agentic future of SaaS\nCertifications\nCertifications are preferred, not required - a proven delivery and thought-leadership track record carries the most weight.\nPreferred Certifications\nSalesforce Data Cloud Consultant\nSalesforce Certified Data Architect\nSalesforce Certified Integration Architect\nSalesforce Agentforce Specialist (Director)\nMuleSoft Certified Integration Architect (Sr. Architect level)\nTOGAF (Director)\nAdditional Pluses\nInformatica IDMC / MDM certification\nSalesforce Agentforce Specialist (Sr. Architect level)\nMuleSoft Certified Integration Architect (Director level)\nDAMA CDMP or CDMC\nPreferred / Differentiating Strengths\nExperience/track record delivering agentic AI / RAG on a governed data foundation\nIndustry depth/expertise in Financial Services, Healthcare, or Manufacturing (industry data models)\nTrack record/history building reusable accelerators and prompt/skill/agent libraries\nPrior Professional Services / customer-facing advisory or leadership experience at enterprise scale\nHow Success Is Measured (First 12 Months)\nCertification Attainment: complete required certifications to be compliant and ready for customer engagements\nDiscovery-to-roadmap / Customer impact: consistently produce customer-calibrated maturity assessments and roadmaps that secure signed charters; ramp quickly to be billable on one or more engagements\nDelivery / Architecture standard: ship working, governed capability increments each phase, with consistent, governed, dual-purpose foundations across the portfolio\nAdvisory impact / Business outcomes: measurable stakeholder alignment and adoption; clear business (not just technical) outcomes realized\nAI-augmented delivery: apply AI tooling to reduce delivery effort while improving consistency; contribute reusable prompt/skill/agent assets to the practice, adopted team-wide at senior levels\nThought leadership: bring a credible agentic-SaaS-future perspective into engagements; at Director level, own a defined, published practice POV shaping customer engagements and market positioning\nGovernance / Enablement: leave every engagement with a sustainable stewardship and operating model; delivery teams ramped and productive through technical leadership\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. 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