Data & AI Cloud Architect (Pre-Sales)

Salesforce; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 173,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Data & AI Cloud Technical Architect to guide customers from strategy to deployment, focusing on data architecture, lakehouses, and agentic AI. This role blends cloud data platforms with AI to deliver enterprise solutions and repeatable propositions for GTM.

You will collaborate with sales and technical teams to lead conversations with executives, align on architecture patterns, and drive demonstrations and reference architectures across industries.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with cloud data warehouse and lakehouse platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Azure Synapse)
• Strong SQL skills and data modeling across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data; familiarity with dbt or Spark
• Familiarity with ML fundamentals: feature engineering, model training pipelines, inference patterns, and embeddings
• Practical experience with agentic AI or generative AI — built something with LLMs or agents, in production, a POC, or side project
• Python proficiency strongly preferred

Skills

Cloud data platforms

SQL modeling

Python

Agentic AI

ML fundamentals

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Data Science, Software Eng, or related STEM

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Azure Synapse

dbt

Spark

Python

LangChain

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

SageMaker

Vertex AI

Azure ML

Databricks MLflow

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Data & AI Cloud Technical Architect to guide customers from strategy to deployment, focusing on data architecture, lakehouses, and agentic AI. This role blends cloud data platforms with AI to deliver enterprise solutions and repeatable propositions for GTM.

You will collaborate with sales and technical teams to lead conversations with executives, align on architecture patterns, and drive demonstrations and reference architectures across industries.