Senior Salesforce Architect & Strategic Advisor

Salesforce; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 173,000 - 314,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, based in the United States, is seeking a Senior Technical Architect or Technical Architect Director for its Professional Services team. You’ll serve as a strategic advisor to C-level stakeholders at large enterprise clients and architect multi-cloud solutions across application, data, integration, and security.

You’ll lead cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, run executive workshops, and help guide program governance while identifying risks and ensuring solutions remain

Qualifications

• 8+ years of enterprise architecture or consulting experience (10+ years for Director level).
• 4+ years leading Salesforce Core Projects (Director level: 2-5 years of direct people management additionally required).
• Strong application design skills combined with data, integration, and security architecture expertise.
• Strong presentation and communication skills — able to present and defend a point of view to varied audiences, including C-level.
• Proven ability to analyze, design, and optimize business processes via technology and integration.
• Agile methodology fluency and a collaborative, high-integrity leadership style.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted, strategic advisor and Salesforce platform expert to C-level stakeholders at high-profile enterprise clients.
• Architect multi-cloud technology solutions across application, data, integration, and security domains to meet client needs.
• Guide and lead cross-functional teams of architects and developers; for Director-level, direct people management of technical teams.
• Facilitate executive workshops, drive program governance, and manage partner/customer negotiations.
• Identify and proactively manage risk areas, seeing issues through to resolution.
• Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions maintainable.
• Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and adopting emerging technologies that drive business value.
• Lead internal strategic initiatives to grow the consulting practice; contribute to the community's knowledge base and thought leadership.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Consulting experience

Presentation skills

C-level communication

Agile methodology

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AI tools (GitHub Copilot)

Job description

Salesforce, based in the United States, is seeking a Senior Technical Architect or Technical Architect Director for its Professional Services team. You’ll serve as a strategic advisor to C-level stakeholders at large enterprise clients and architect multi-cloud solutions across application, data, integration, and security.

You’ll lead cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, run executive workshops, and help guide program governance while identifying risks and ensuring solutions remain