Manager, Technical Consulting

Salesforce; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Manager, Technical Consulting to lead our Global Delivery Centre team. You will guide Enterprise Architecture, drive AI-enabled solutions, and oversee delivery across Industries Cloud engagements. The role blends leadership, client management, and hands-on architectural work.

You will mentor engineers, recruit and shape the practice, and partner with customers and partners to deliver scalable, secure Salesforce-based architectures using modern AI tools.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of experience leading Salesforce technical consulting projects and handling individual contributors.
• 5+ years of people management experience.
• Expertise in Salesforce Industries Cloud (Comms, H&I or FSC OR Revenue) and Sales/Service/Experience Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical consulting team with up to 15 direct reports.
• Architect technology solutions using Salesforce Industries Cloud for enterprise clients.
• Mentor and hire Technical Consultants and Architects to deliver high‑quality solutions.
• Define and track AI delivery metrics and business value for client workloads.
• Collaborate with Delivery Managers and Solution Architects to align projects with client needs.

Skills

Salesforce Industries Cloud

Salesforce/Apex

Trainers/Coaching

Integration Architecture

Platform Security

Identity and Access Management

Data Architecture

Architecture Design Patterns

LWC/Lightning

Cursor/AI tools

GitHub Copilot

Tools

Cursor

Claude

GitHub Copilot

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

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we’re looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce’s core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Salesforce is currently seeking a Manager, Technical Consulting to join our Global Delivery Centre (GDC) team. Our Manager, Technical Consulting role plays a meaningful part in managing, training, and building the careers of our technical consulting team. We are key players in this objective, as they can use Industry Cloud functionality to deliver customer requirements quickly with minimal customization.

In addition to people leadership, career coaching, and project oversight responsibilities for the team, you will build our Industries practice through leading internal initiatives, contributing to the technical practice business plan, developing methodology, creating team enablement, onboarding new architects, and recruiting to build the team.

This role is 50% billable and in addition to team leadership, you will work with our customers and partners as a technical architect to solve critically important business challenges using Salesforce’s Industries Cloud.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll have up to 15 direct reports under your scope of responsibility.

• You will be required to deliver technical work (as a technical architect) on Industries projects at 50% utilization and balance that with leading your team of Technical Consultants, Architects, and Managers.

• You’ll be responsible for hiring, training, and mentoring our Technical Consultants so they can implement successfully in turning the program design of our Solution Architects and Technical Architects into highest-quality solutions that meets the customers’ needs, ensuring continuous team enablement across modern AI coding environments.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the client, guiding customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies and Enterprise AI Architecture frameworks that drive increased business value.

• Identify and lead internal critical initiatives to grow the Industries consulting practice; serving as an active contributor to the community’s overall knowledge base and expertise, championing an AI-First Delivery & Engineering model across your delivery team.

• Work closely on projects with Delivery Managers, Solution Architects, and directly with clients to architect technology solutions to meet client needs.

• Lead Enterprise Architecture and Governance for an enterprise-level customer engagement. Serve as a trusted advisor to the client driving conversations with their Enterprise Architects and business stakeholders that shape the architectural vision, integrate scalable predictive/generative AI elements securely, and establish a program architectural roadmap.

• 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 Industries Cloud, Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, and Experience Cloud, guiding teams on the effective use of AI development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot) to maintain delivery speed and code health.

• Ensure the success of these teams while securing the highest CSAT and business outcomes, focusing on Performance Evaluation & ROI by defining metric frameworks to measure the business value of client AI workloads.

• 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 SFI and Salesforce.

• Highlight and manage risk areas in the solution in a proactive manner, and commit to seeing an issue through to completion.

Minimum Requirements:

• 10-15 years of experience leading Salesforce technical consulting projects and handling individual contributors.

• 5+ years of people management experience.

• Strong application design skills combined with strong data, integration, and security architecture skills.

• Expertise in one or multiples of → Salesforce Industries Cloud (Comms, H&I or FSC OR Revenue), Sales/Service/Experience Cloud, and Vlocity OmniStudio or respective domains, with a foundational familiarity with Agentforce architectures being a plus.

• Integration Architecture (Must have)

• Platform Security (Must have)

• Identity and Access Management / Integration Security

• Sharing and Visibility (Must have)

• Data Architecture and Management (Must have)

• Architectural Design Patterns

• Apex Design Patterns (Must Have)

• Salesforce/Apex, Triggers, Lightning Flows, Lightning, LWC, and experience with modern web and mobile technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web Components, others).

• Proficiency in English.

Preferred Requirements:

• Salesforce Certification Preferred (Admin, Developer, Sales, and Service Clouds, Application Architect)

• OmniStudio Developer/Consultant

• Thorough individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies, specifically keeping pace with AI-assisted delivery trends and data compliance practices.

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience.

• A great listener with the ability to communicate with people in diverse roles.

• Proven ability to analyze, design, and optimize business processes via technology and integration.

• Resourceful and innovative thinker who can work through and solve problems.

• Adept at navigating/mediating conflict and fostering healthy dialogue.

• Strong interpersonal skills - nurture effective working relationships with others.

• Exceptional analytical skills - experience overseeing and managing business metrics, productivity, AI evaluation metrics, and outcomes.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance andbe your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you cando your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

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