Lead Salesforce Data Platform Architect

Varian Medical Systems, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 144,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid parking/public transportation

Paid time off

Paid sick time

Job summary

Siemens Healthineers is seeking a Data Platform Architect to connect enterprise applications, data platforms, and governance. You will drive design decisions for Salesforce Data Cloud and CRM data strategies, enabling Customer 360 and trusted insights across a global business.

This role emphasizes data quality, migration, and scalable analytics. You will collaborate with IT, business, and regional teams to align architecture with enterprise standards and regulatory requirements while shaping the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 8–10 years in data architecture, data engineering, enterprise data management, or CRM data architecture roles within global environments.
• Strong background in enterprise data architecture, CRM data structures, master data concepts, data quality management, and governance frameworks.
• Experience with Salesforce Data Cloud across data ingestion, harmonization, identity resolution, profile unification, segmentation, and activation use cases.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the data capabilities and requirements of enterprise application technologies and determine how they operate within the broader enterprise data landscape, with Salesforce as the focus.
• Translate business needs into Salesforce Data Cloud design decisions for Customer 360, segmentation, consent-aware activation, and trusted insights.
• Define the enterprise approach for Salesforce connections with data platforms like Snowflake and other sources, balancing federation, ingestion, sharing, and integration needs.
• Shape the analytics architecture for CRM users by enabling governed metrics, decision-ready dashboards, and embedded insights in workflows.
• Lead CRM data migration from legacy platforms, ensuring data readiness, validation, reconciliation, and a phased global rollout.
• Establish operating standards for CRM data quality, stewardship, lineage, lifecycle, privacy, and secure access aligned with governance and regulatory expectations.
• Guide architecture choices to support high-volume data, performance, scalability, sharing, and long-term maintainability.
• Provide data foundation for AI-enabled CRM use cases, including Einstein and future Agentforce scenarios, ensuring unified, trusted customer data.
• Lead data architecture workshops with business, IT, enterprise architecture, product, analytics, implementation partners, and regional teams.
• Communicate architecture recommendations, roadmap implications, risks, trade-offs, and investment considerations to business and IT stakeholders.

Skills

Salesforce Data Cloud experience

Data architecture

CRM data architecture

Governance frameworks

Snowflake integration

ETL/ELT design

SQL

Data protection/compliance

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering or related field

Tools

Salesforce Data Cloud

Snowflake

TrueFoundry

BigQuery

Tableau

Job description

Siemens Healthineers is seeking a Data Platform Architect to connect enterprise applications, data platforms, and governance. You will drive design decisions for Salesforce Data Cloud and CRM data strategies, enabling Customer 360 and trusted insights across a global business.

This role emphasizes data quality, migration, and scalable analytics. You will collaborate with IT, business, and regional teams to align architecture with enterprise standards and regulatory requirements while shaping the