Senior Data & AI Cloud Architect — Pre-Sales

salesforce.com, inc.; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 173,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Data & AI Cloud Technical Architect, a pre-sales, customer-facing expert who combines deep data platform knowledge with broad technical skills. The role spans data architecture, lakehouse platforms, and agentic AI, guiding customers from strategy to deployment and enabling sales with repeatable architectures.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on data platform experience, ML familiarity, and strong collaboration across teams to deliver AI-powered enterprise solutions at

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with cloud data warehouse and lakehouse platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Azure Synapse, or equivalent).
• Strong SQL skills and data modeling across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data; dbt or Spark a plus.
• Familiarity with ML fundamentals: feature engineering, model training pipelines, inference patterns, and vector/embedding-based retrieval.
• Practical experience with agentic AI or generative AI - built something with LLMs or agents, whether in production, a POC, or a side project.
• Comfortable using AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar) to build prototypes and demos quickly; Python proficiency strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead key technical and business discussions around enterprise data and AI programs from strategy through deployment.
• Develop repeatable propositions and go-to-market capabilities for Data & AI Cloud solutions.
• Deliver reference architectures, enablement sessions, and industry insights for customers and partners.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud data platforms

SQL

Python

ML fundamentals

Agentic AI

LLM prompts

Security & privacy

Education

B.S Computer Science

Tools

LangChain

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Data & AI Cloud Technical Architect, a pre-sales, customer-facing expert who combines deep data platform knowledge with broad technical skills. The role spans data architecture, lakehouse platforms, and agentic AI, guiding customers from strategy to deployment and enabling sales with repeatable architectures.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on data platform experience, ML familiarity, and strong collaboration across teams to deliver AI-powered enterprise solutions at