Director, Technical Consulting— Marketing Cloud Next

Salesforce; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Director, Technical Consulting (Marketing Cloud Next) to lead the Global Delivery Centre team, architect end-to-end migrations from legacy platforms to Marketing Cloud Next, and serve as primary technical authority on the track. This role combines leadership with hands-on architecture to solve complex migration challenges across global clients.

This position is 50% billable, requires deep Marketing Cloud Next expertise, and involves partnering with customers and third

Qualifications

• 18+ years leading Salesforce technical consulting projects.
• 8+ years of people management experience.
• Experience scaling professional services delivery centers globally.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of up to 8 architects and managers with mentoring and performance leadership.
• Act as Senior/Principal Technical Architect for Marketing Cloud migrations with ~50% utilization.
• Design subscriber/data migration strategy including GDPR/CAN-SPAM compliance.
• Architect Data Cloud implementation for unified customer profiles and audience activation.
• Own journey migration blueprint from legacy workflows to MC Next.
• Define end‑to‑end data lineage including profiling, cleansing and transformation.
• Lead workshops and drive solution design, testing and deployment.
• Lead a project team of developers delivering optimized client solutions.
• Manage customer expectations and negotiate complex solutions with stakeholders.
• Establish trust and promote best practices with Salesforce.
• Highlight and manage risk and drive issues to completion.

Skills

Marketing Cloud Next

Technical Architecture

Data Cloud

Migration Strategy

Leadership

Data Governance

Tools

Marketing Cloud Connect

REST API

SOAP API

AMPscript/SSJS

Job description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Customer Success

Job Details

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Role Overview

Salesforce is currently seeking a Director,Technical Consulting (Marketing Cloud Next) to join our Global Delivery Centre (GDC) team. We are looking for an experienced professional services leader who has experience in scaling professional services delivery centers across the world. In addition The Director — Marketing Cloud Next is an execution-focused technical leader responsible for architecting and delivering end‑to‑end migrations from legacy marketing platforms (Eloqua, Marketo, HubSpot, legacy SFMC) to Salesforce Marketing Cloud Next. As a foundational member of the Strategic Migration CoE and Migration Factory, you will act as primary technical authority for the Marketing Cloud Next track — owning the solution design, data architecture, subscriber migration strategy, journey migration blueprint, and Data Cloud unified profile design. You will combine deep Marketing Cloud Next platform expertise with advanced data migration methodologies to ensure that subscriber data, consent records, journeys, content and preference data are migrated with full integrity, compliance and zero business disruption.

This role is 50% billable and in addition to people leadership, you will work with our customers and partners as a senior technical architect/program architect/CTO to solve critically important business challenges using Salesforce's Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of up to 8 direct reports, comprising Architects and potentially Managers, providing technical direction, mentorship, and performance leadership.
• Serve as a Senior/Principal Technical Architect for Marketing Cloud migration projects, contributing hands‑on technical expertise and architectural leadership at approximately 50% utilization.
• Design the subscriber and audience data migration strategy, including data extension schema, subscriber key mapping, suppression list migration, consent record preservation (GDPR/CAN‑SPAM/CASL) and historical send data handling.
• Architect the Salesforce Data Cloud implementation for unified customer profile design, identity resolution rules, data stream ingestion from source systems, and audience segmentation activation to Marketing Cloud Next.
• Own the journey migration blueprint — mapping legacy automation workflows, drip campaigns and triggered sends from source platforms to Marketing Cloud Next Journey Builder, including decision splits, wait steps and exit criteria.
• Define end‑to‑end data lineage including data profiling, cleansing logic, transformation mapping and reconciliation strategies for all subscriber objects, data extensions and consent tables.
• Lead functional and technical workshops. Demonstrate leadership skills in designing, delivering, testing, and deploying.
• Lead a project team of developers focused on driving optimized solutions for our clients leveraging Salesforce clouds.
• Manage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third‑party stakeholders.
• Establish trust with the customer’s leadership, promoting and/or implementing best practices with Salesforce.
• Highlight and manage risk areas in the solution in a proactive manner, and commit to seeing an issue through to completion

Core Technical Skills — Must Have

• Marketing Cloud Next Platform Depth: Advanced expertise in Email Studio, Journey Builder, Automation Studio, Content Builder, Mobile Studio, Advertising Studio and Contact Builder / Audience Builder.
• Data Cloud / CDP: Hands‑on experience with Salesforce Data Cloud — data stream configuration, identity resolution, unified profile modelling, segmentation and activation to MC Next.
• Subscriber Data Architecture: Deep understanding of subscriber data model, data extensions, sendable vs non‑sendable objects, contact counts, suppression logic and list management at scale.
• Consent & Compliance Architecture: Expert knowledge of GDPR, CAN‑SPAM, CASL, POPI — consent record migration, preference centre design, suppression list management and compliance‑aligned data handling.
• Email Deliverability: Strong understanding of sender reputation, IP warm‑up strategy, SPF/DKIM/DMARC configuration and deliverability validation post‑migration.
• Data Migration Methodology: Proven expertise in executing high‑volume subscriber migrations — data profiling, ETL pipeline design, transformation mapping and reconciliation for marketing data objects.
• Integration Architecture: Understanding of Marketing Cloud Connect (CRM sync), REST/SOAP Marketing Cloud APIs, API‑triggered sends and event‑driven messaging patterns.
• AMPscript / SSJS: Proficiency in dynamic content scripting for migrated email templates — ensuring legacy personalisation logic is recreated accurately in MC Next.

Minimum Requirements

• 18+ years of experience leading Salesforce technical consulting projects and handling individual contributors.
• 8+ years of people manag