About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans and agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword; it’s a way of life. The world of work 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.
Role Overview
As a Solution Engineering Enterprise Architect, you will be a valued team member, collaborator, contributor, and thought leader who helps our customers transform into agentic enterprises. A typical day includes collaborating with your EA team, creating compelling presentations for C‑suite clients, participating in Equality workshops, presenting industry viewpoints to senior digital leaders, and debating new AI trends.
Responsibilities
The Enterprise Architect will serve as an enterprise domain expert to sales teams, advising on how the Salesforce Platform fits into an enterprise business and IT architecture. With a broad IT background and sound business acumen—encompassing business and technical architecture, software engineering, cloud computing, and the software development life‑cycle—you will structure deployment plans for Salesforce solutions and translate customer business strategy into actionable execution as part of the pre‑sales cycle. You will work across technical, security, solution, data, and AI architecture, helping the sales teams design specific deployment roadmaps against business strategies while staying aligned with our commercial sales objectives.
Key Experience & Skills
* Extensive work experience in the technology sector, either as a vendor or user
* Strong pre‑sales/business development experience, preferably with a software vendor, system integrator, or consulting organization
* Good understanding of architectural principles of cloud‑based platforms, including SaaS, PaaS, multi‑tenancy, multi‑tiered infrastructure, and micro‑services
* Familiarity with major cloud offerings and ability to discuss cloud architectures
* Grounding in AI technologies and techniques, including LLMs, prompt engineering, and agents
* Understanding of enterprise application integration (SOA, ESB, EAI, ETL) and integration considerations such as process orchestration, customer data integration, and master data management
Additional Skills (Useful But Not Required)
* Previous practitioner and/or implementation experience of Salesforce or other relevant solutions
* Previous development experience (Force.com, Java, C#, JavaScript, HTML, XML, AJAX, or relevant open‑source platforms)
* Enterprise architecture certification such as TOGAF
* Experience in an Enterprise Architect role in a customer organization
* Understanding of UI/UX design thinking
* Principles of network, application, and information security
* Understanding of security processes, standards, and issues involved in multi‑tier, multi‑tenant web applications
Accommodations
If you require assistance due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodations Request Form. We are a recognized Disability Confident member under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme and are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process.
Posting Statement
Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non‑discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. We assess hiring decisions on 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 any other protected classification.
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