Director of Data Foundation & AI-Driven Architecture

Salesforce; Toronto; On-site; CAD 230,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Director of Technical Consulting - Mulesoft to lead strategy, architecture, and delivery of Data Foundation engagements for enterprise customers. You will guide executives, shape governance, and drive AI-enabled, platform-centric solutions across multiple data platforms including Salesforce Data 360, Informatica IDMC, and MuleSoft.

You will lead governance, risk management, and scalable asset development, delivering value in phased engagements while ensuring security and

Qualifications

• 15+ years of deep, hands-on data experience across data architecture, engineering, MDM, integration, and governance
• Demonstrated leadership of enterprise-scale data platform and AI-readiness programs
• Deep expertise across one or more of Salesforce Data 360, Informatica IDMC, MuleSoft
• Authority-level data modeling and semantic/metadata modeling

Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted advisor to customer CxOs; shape data strategy and the business case
• Own executive discovery, maturity assessment, and the phased, customer-calibrated roadmap
• Frame guidance as adaptable options, meeting customers at their entry point (customer-360, regulatory governance, analytics modernization, unstructured/RAG)
• Represent the practice in the most complex, high-stakes engagements
• Set target-state architecture across Data 360 / Informatica IDMC / MuleSoft
• Balance platform-agnostic and platform-centric execution — position Salesforce as the center of gravity while integrating cleanly with the customer's existing multi-vendor technology investments
• Approve architecture decisions; validate through scoped POCs before production build
• Ensure value is delivered every phase (no big-bang), with governance-first discipline
• Guarantee dual-consumption design: analytics for people and agentic AI for machines
• Provide architectural governance and quality assurance across concurrent engagements
• Own delivery risk: exec buy-in, business engagement, scope, and dependency management
• Ensure security, privacy, and governance controls are embedded from the start
• Set the standard for AI-augmented professional services delivery — embed AI tools across the full engagement lifecycle to compress effort and raise quality
• Define the practice's approach to capability-driven reusable assets — prompt templates, skills, and agents
• Establish measurable AI-acceleration targets and quality guardrails; institutionalize what works into the playbook
• Ensure human-at-the-helm governance so AI-accelerated delivery stays trusted, auditable, and grounded
• Own the practice's point of view on the agentic future of the SaaS industry — translate vision into reference architectures and roadmaps
• Represent the practice externally and internally — publish POVs and shape market conversations
• Bring experience-based thought leadership into engagements
• Author and evolve the Data Foundation Delivery Playbook, accelerators, and reference IP
• Provide hands-on technical leadership to the engagement delivery team
• Establish stewardship, RACI, and sustainable customer operating models
• Ensure executive-ready summaries accompany deep technical detail on every engagement
• Champion AI-based delivery: apply tools like Claude Code, Gemini, Lucid AI, NotebookLM across engagements

Skills

Unified Identity

Master Data Mgmt

Unstructured Data

Data Architecture

Data Integration

Data Security

Data Governance

Industry Data Models

Data Platform

Analytics & BI

Tools

Salesforce Data 360

Informatica IDMC

MuleSoft

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Director of Technical Consulting - Mulesoft to lead strategy, architecture, and delivery of Data Foundation engagements for enterprise customers. You will guide executives, shape governance, and drive AI-enabled, platform-centric solutions across multiple data platforms including Salesforce Data 360, Informatica IDMC, and MuleSoft.

You will lead governance, risk management, and scalable asset development, delivering value in phased engagements while ensuring security and