Data Architect, Data Foundation

Salesforce.com, inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Data Architect for our Data Foundation Pre-Sales team in the United Kingdom. You will act as a trusted advisor, guiding customers on data governance, cataloguing, data quality, and data infrastructure while aligning technical and business goals with Informatica and MuleSoft solutions.

You will collaborate closely with Account Executives and Solution Engineers, leading architectural discussions, delivering tailored architecture presentations, and driving value realization

Qualifications

• Proven ability to analyse complex customer challenges and architect innovative data solutions.
• Guide critical architectural discussions around data foundations, governance, cataloguing, and quality tools.
• Design accessible, trustworthy architectures and promote platform adoption across customers.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to customers, guiding them through Informatica and MuleSoft solutions.
• Lead architectural discussions and deliver architecture presentations tailored to technical requirements.
• Collaborate with Account Executives, Solution Engineers, and C-level leaders throughout the sales cycle.
• Travel up to 30% across the UK and Ireland to support customers and opportunities.

Skills

Data governance

Data cataloguing

Data quality

Data infrastructure

Architectural strategy

Workshop facilitation

Solutioning

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's or above in Computer Science or related technical field

Tools

Informatica

MuleSoft

Job description

At Salesforce, we believe that AI requires a trusted context. Join our Data Foundation Pre-Sales team as a Data Architect helping clients envision the transformation of their businesses through Data platform offerings coming from Informatica and MuleSoft and focussing on Data and AI within Salesforce.

The Role

As a Data Architect, you will act as a trusted advisor to our customers, leveraging your deep technical expertise in data governance, cataloguing, data quality and data infrastructure to guide them through Informatica and MuleSoft solutions. Working closely with Account Executives, Solution Engineers and C-level leaders throughout the end-to-end sales cycle, you will use your strong presentation and solutioning skills to navigate complex accounts. By aligning technical and architectural requirements with customer business drivers, strategy, and funding, you will qualify opportunities and ensure our customers realize the platform's full value.

You will support the customer's enterprise architects and domain architects to build an Architectural Vision and to-be Architecture for Agentic and Data Transformation, with a clear positioning of the value of Informatica and MuleSoft in this vision. You will also help persuade senior IT executives (CTO, CIO, Head of digital, and others) to adopt this vision to achieve their goals.

Why Join Us?

• Supportive Culture: Be part of an inclusive, highly collaborative pre-sales team with dedicated mentorship focused on your long-term career growth.
• Impactful Work: Work at the forefront of AI and data innovation, directly helping enterprises solve complex compliance, governance, and architecture challenges.
• Core Values: Work for a company that leads with Trust, Customer Success, and Equality.

What Your First Year Looks Like

• In Your First 30-60 Days: You'll complete onboarding, pair with senior teammates on customer opportunities, get certified on core Data Foundation products.
• By Day 90: You'll start to lead architectural discussions with our customers, Deliver architecture presentations that are tailored to the client's technical requirements and audience, and work alongside Client Solution Engineers on strategic opportunities.
• Beyond: You'll achieve full certification across product, architecture, and sales messaging, alongside the successful delivery of a Self Service asset. In this role, you will drive strategic account planning in partnership with Account Executives, create comprehensive evaluation plans for large accounts, and lead tailored presentations and workshops to guide enterprise clients through their architectural journeys. Additionally, you will champion the brand by supporting marketing and evangelism initiatives through blogs, demo-driven webinars, and industry speaking engagements.

What You Bring:

• Data Architecture Strategy & Value Realisation: Proven ability to analyse complex customer challenges and architect innovative Data solutions. You will guide critical architectural discussions around data foundations, including advising stakeholders on data governance, cataloguing, and data quality tools. You will endeavour to design accessible, trustworthy architectures and foster continuous platform adoption by identifying new business use cases.
• Data & Cloud Fundamentals: Practical understanding of hybrid software deployments, database design, data warehousing, or business intelligence concepts.
• Architectural Advisory: Provide crucial architectural guidance to support the creation of compelling demos that clearly illustrate immediate ROI and practical application for diverse stakeholders.
• Workshop Facilitation & Strategic Alignment: Expertise in orchestrating inclusive, targeted technical workshops to guide key decisions and align architectural best practices with the customer's core business priorities.
• Thought Leadership & Technical Enablement: A track record of producing clear architectural diagrams and best-practice documentation, actively sharing knowledge on emerging AI trends and Data innovations to empower both internal teams and customers.
• Regional Mobility: Ability to travel as needed (up to a maximum of 30% of the time) across the UK and Ireland region.

Bonus Experience (Desired, Not Required):

• Storytelling & Sales Partnership: Strong experience partnering collaboratively with Sales and Solutions Engineering teams during the sales process.
• Hands-On Implementation Experience: While this role focuses on architectural strategy and advisory, practical, hands-on configuration or implementation experience with these data governance and quality tools is considered a strong advantage.
• Specific Product Ecosystems: Architectural experience with other Informatica or MuleSoft tools, such as MDM, data and application integration, and APIs.
• Regulatory Frameworks: In-depth knowledge of compliance mandates (e.g., GDPR, BCBS239, EU AI Act).
• Advanced AI Concepts: Practical experience of Agentic AI and emerging generative workflows.
• Education: A Bachelor's or above degree in Computer Science or a closely related technical field.

We are a recognised Disability Confident member under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme. We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the interview scheme as part of the application process. If you would like to apply under the scheme, please click the link to the Accommodations Request Form above and scroll to the UK Disability Confident Scheme section within the form.

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