Field CTO - Data Governance & MDM Architect

Salesforce; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 201,000 - 269,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Field CTO specializing in Data Governance and Master Data Management to shape trusted, governed enterprise data for strategic customers. You will interact with CIOs, CDOs, and enterprise architects while aligning data strategies with Salesforce, Informatica, MuleSoft, Data Cloud, and Agentforce initiatives.

This role emphasizes governance, data quality, metadata, and architecture across hybrid multi-cloud environments, with direct influence on roadmap priorities and

Qualifications

• Significant experience in enterprise data architecture, Data Governance, MDM, Data Quality, metadata, or closely related disciplines.
• Deep understanding of enterprise MDM patterns across domains such as customer, product, supplier, location, and reference data.
• Strong understanding of governance models, stewardship, ownership, lineage, metadata, data quality and controls.
• Experience advising senior executives while communicating with deeply technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Advise strategic customers on Data Governance, MDM, Data Quality, Metadata Management and enterprise data architecture.
• Engage with CDOs, CIOs, CTOs and senior leaders to align data strategies with business goals.
• Help customers design modern governance architectures balancing standards with decentralized units and multi-cloud estates.
• Lead executive briefings, architecture workshops, and high-value customer engagements.
• Collaborate with Sales, Solution Engineers and Account Partners on complex opportunities.
• Develop reusable architectural patterns and field guidance for broader Salesforce and Informatica initiatives.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Data Governance

MDM

Data Quality

Metadata management

Executive engagement

Tools

Informatica MDM

IDMC

Data Cloud

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Field CTO specializing in Data Governance and Master Data Management to shape trusted, governed enterprise data for strategic customers. You will interact with CIOs, CDOs, and enterprise architects while aligning data strategies with Salesforce, Informatica, MuleSoft, Data Cloud, and Agentforce initiatives.

This role emphasizes governance, data quality, metadata, and architecture across hybrid multi-cloud environments, with direct influence on roadmap priorities and