Principal AI Architect, Financial Services — Prototypes to Production

Salesforce, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Principal AI & Integrated Solutions Architect for its Financial Services Architecture team. You will lead architecting efforts for strategic banking, insurance, and wealth management accounts, designing agentic AI architectures and data foundations that scale across Agentforce, Data 360, MuleSoft, and client systems.

The role requires hands-on prototyping, governance and data strategies, and collaboration with executives and delivery teams to ensure production-ready

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise or solution architecture with customer-facing FS experience.
• Deep hands-on experience with Salesforce platform and enterprise integration (MuleSoft/API-led).
• Experience designing AI solutions including LLM-based agents and agent orchestration.
• Prototyping with code and AI-assisted development tools; Git-based workflows.
• Knowledge of FS regulatory, data residency, model risk, and AI governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead agentic AI architecture for strategic FS accounts; drive current- and future-state architecture and governance.
• Co-build working prototypes and proof-of-value assets on customer data; translate into actionable demos.
• Deliver engagement models covering economies, governance, and scalable enterprise architecting.
• Package architecture, data dictionaries, and process maps for handoff to partners and delivery teams.
• Advise executives on FS outcomes; represent Salesforce at executive briefings and architecture reviews.
• Mentor architects and account teams; contribute reusable assets and reference architectures.

Skills

AI architecture

Enterprise architecture

Executive presence

Mentoring architects

Tools

MuleSoft

API-led design

Apex/JavaScript/Python

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Principal AI & Integrated Solutions Architect for its Financial Services Architecture team. You will lead architecting efforts for strategic banking, insurance, and wealth management accounts, designing agentic AI architectures and data foundations that scale across Agentforce, Data 360, MuleSoft, and client systems.

The role requires hands-on prototyping, governance and data strategies, and collaboration with executives and delivery teams to ensure production-ready