Data & AI Cloud Technical Architect (Pre-Sales)

salesforce.com, inc.; Michigan; On-site; USD 173,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Data & AI Cloud Technical Architect, a pre-sales expert who blends data platform knowledge with AI strategy to guide customers from requirements through deployment. This role spans data architecture, ML workflows, and cloud-native best practices to deliver scalable, AI-powered solutions.

The candidate will lead discussions, craft reference architectures, and support GTM efforts while traveling for customer engagements.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with cloud data warehouse and lakehouse platforms.
• Strong SQL and data modeling across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Familiarity with ML fundamentals and vector/embedding-based retrieval.
• Practical experience with agentic AI or generative AI and production or POC deployments.
• Python proficiency strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical and business discussions around enterprise data and AI programs from strategy to deployment.
• Develop repeatable data/AI architecture propositions and reference architectures.
• Collaborate with sales teams to translate customer needs into winning architectures.

Skills

SQL skills

Python

Agentic AI

Data architecture

Cloud data platforms

LLM concepts

Data governance

Education

B.S Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS

Tools

dbt

Spark

LangChain

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Data & AI Cloud Technical Architect, a pre-sales expert who blends data platform knowledge with AI strategy to guide customers from requirements through deployment. This role spans data architecture, ML workflows, and cloud-native best practices to deliver scalable, AI-powered solutions.

The candidate will lead discussions, craft reference architectures, and support GTM efforts while traveling for customer engagements.