Principal AI Solutions Architect - Pre-Sales Lead

salesforce.com, inc.; Colorado; On-site; USD 148,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Core Technical Architect to drive pre-sales activities, aligning Salesforce solutions with customers' digital transformation and cloud adoption strategies. You will serve as a subject-matter expert across business strategy, architecture, data, integration, security, and AI, guiding conversations and POC/technical deep dives.

The role requires hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks, LLM prompt optimization, and end-to-end AI solution design, including API gateways

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS, or equivalent.
• Salesforce Certifications and/or Trailhead Superbadges.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and relationship-building with executive audiences.
• Hands-on customer-facing architect/consultant experience.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert in business strategy, application architecture, data, integration, security, and AI.
• Use a consultative approach to understand business and technical requirements.
• Determine optimal technologies to leverage in customer-driven architectures based on product knowledge and standards.
• Lead discussions around change programs from business and technical perspectives.
• Develop repeatable propositions and go-to-market strategies for sales teams.

Skills

Agentic AI & Agentforce

Prompt Engineering

Generative AI Architecture

Data360

Flow & Orchestration

Architectural design

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/SE/MIS

Salesforce Certifications

Tools

Apex

Node.js

Python

Java

Git & CI/CD

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Core Technical Architect to drive pre-sales activities, aligning Salesforce solutions with customers' digital transformation and cloud adoption strategies. You will serve as a subject-matter expert across business strategy, architecture, data, integration, security, and AI, guiding conversations and POC/technical deep dives.

The role requires hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks, LLM prompt optimization, and end-to-end AI solution design, including API gateways