Principal, Technical Architect
$148k - $269k • Remote • California - San Francisco
Posted 14d ago
Job Location
California - San Francisco
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Categories
AI Engineer
About the job
Salesforce is seeking a Core Technical Architect to act as a pre-sales, customer-facing expert. This role involves applying broad technical skills and business acumen to align Salesforce solutions with customer digital transformation and cloud adoption strategies. You will be an integral part of the sales cycle, supporting Proofs of Concept and technical deep dives into our AI and Data products, ensuring optimal matching of our solutions to customer challenges.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a subject matter expert in business strategy, application architecture, data, integration, security, and AI.
- Utilize a consultative approach to understand business and technical requirements.
- Determine optimal technologies for customer-driven architectures based on product knowledge and industry standards.
- Lead discussions on change programs from both business and technical perspectives.
- Develop repeatable propositions and go-to-market strategies for sales teams.
Requirements
- Direct experience developing and managing agentic AI frameworks and autonomous agents.
- Proven ability to optimize prompts for LLMs using techniques like RAG and chain-of-thought.
- Experience architecting enterprise AI solutions, including API gateways and data pipelines.
- Deep understanding of Salesforce Data Cloud for unifying and activating customer data.
- Advanced proficiency with Salesforce Flow for complex AI-driven business processes.
- Deep knowledge of enterprise software applications, delivery, and system architecture.
- Coding experience and willingness to work with code (Apex, Node, Python, Java, etc.).
- Strong understanding of database fundamentals and data management tools.
- Competence in integration architectures/patterns.
- Proficiency with software development and application lifecycle management (git, test automation, CI/CD, release management).
- Solid grasp of network, application, and information security principles.
- B.S., M.S. or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering or MIS.
- Salesforce Certifications and/or Trailhead Superbadges.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and relationship-building skills with executive audiences.
- Strategic problem-solving, thought leadership, and effective time management for multiple projects.
- Hands-on experience in customer-facing architect or consultant roles.
- Experience with design thinking, persona-based discovery, or compliance and risk mitigation (bonus).
- Graduate study or proven experience in a relevant area (bonus).