Data Architect, Data Foundation

ENGINEERINGUK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce seeks a Data Architect to guide customers through data governance, cataloguing, and data quality across Informatica and MuleSoft solutions. You will work with executives and engineers to align technical needs with business goals and drive adoption of the data platform.

Role involves building architectural visions, presenting ROI-focused demos, and mentoring teams in best practices. Travel up to 30% across the UK and Ireland region is expected.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to architect data solutions and guide architectural discussions.
• Experience advising on data governance, cataloguing and data quality.
• Understanding of data foundations and hybrid deployments.
• Ability to design trustworthy architectures and foster adoption.

Responsibilities

• Act as trusted advisor to customers throughout the sales cycle.
• Lead architectural discussions, deliver tailored architecture presentations.
• Collaborate with Account Executives and Solution Engineers.
• Create compelling demos showing ROI and practical application.
• Assist enterprise clients with architectural journeys and workshops.

Skills

Data architecture strategy

Data governance

Data and cloud fundamentals

Architectural advisory

Workshop facilitation

Thought leadership & enablement

Regional mobility

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Informatica

MuleSoft

Job description

Sector Construction and Building Services Role Professional Contract Type Permanent Hours Full Time

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

Instead of measuring success by arbitrary years on a resume, we evaluate candidates on impact. Here is how your role evolves:

• 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

To hit the ground running in this role, candidates must possess the following core credentials and domain expertise:

• 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)

We actively seek candidates with prior exposure to the following areas. Bringing any of these to the table is a big plus, but a lack of experience is not a dealbreaker:

• 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.

Research shows that underrepresented candidates often hesitation to apply unless they meet 100% of the listed requirements. At Salesforce, we value potential, adaptability, and real-world problem-solving just as much as formal credentials.