Senior Salesforce Life Sciences Architect & Delivery Lead

Accenture; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 302,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture’s Salesforce Life Sciences practice is seeking a Senior Manager-level Functional Architect to own the architecture vision for large, multi-workstream programs. You will guide high-level decision making, mentor architects, and collaborate with alliance teams to leverage Salesforce capabilities in Life Sciences markets.

You will lead governance, communicate with VP/Director-level stakeholders, and shape the program's data strategy, integration, and implementation approaches across

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive Salesforce delivery experience, with demonstrated tenure in solution architecture or senior platform leadership roles.
• Experience architecting and delivering multiple large-scale, complex Salesforce programs in Life Sciences or an adjacent regulated industry (e.g., MedTech, Payer, Provider).
• Experience with Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud (LSC), Health Cloud, or equivalent pharma/biotech CRM platforms and expertise in how these clouds are applied across commercial, medical, and patient-facing use cases.
• Experience leading delivery using Agile, hybrid, or scaled Agile frameworks at program scale (e.g., SAFe, multi-team Scrum) and shaping methodology decisions for the engagement.
• Experience leveraging AI/ML capabilities (e.g., Salesforce Einstein, Agentforce, generative AI tools) within Life Sciences commercial solutions, including ability to advise clients on AI strategy and adoption.
• Experience supporting Life Sciences clients and/or the Life Sciences industry at a senior delivery or advisory level.
• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years' work experience)

Responsibilities

• Own the overall solution architecture vision for large-scale, multi-workstream Salesforce Life Sciences programs, ensuring coherence across functional design, technical implementation, data strategy, and integration.
• Serve as the senior liaison between business leadership and technical delivery teams - translating strategic intent into architecture direction and, where needed, stepping into a functional or technical lead capacity to break through design impasses, resolve ambiguity, or accelerate alignment across the program.
• Lead architecture governance across the delivery program - setting standards, conducting design reviews, and making binding decisions on platform direction and technical approach.
• Act as the primary solution escalation point for the delivery team; resolve cross-workstream design conflicts and align stakeholders on path forward.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior client stakeholders at the VP and Director level, translating complex architecture concepts into business impact narratives and facilitating alignment across business and technology leaders.
• Guide and mentor Manager-level Solution Architects, senior functional leads, and tech leads; actively develop the next generation of SA talent within the practice.
• Partner with Accenture's alliance teams, Salesforce product teams, and third-party vendors to shape the solution approach and leverage the latest platform capabilities.
• Lead solution design contributions during pursuit phases, including architecture sections of RFP responses, solution demonstrations, and client orals.
• Drive practice development through reusable assets, architecture blueprints, and industry-specific point-of-view content for the Life Sciences commercial space.
• Manage solution risk at the program level - identifying systemic architectural risks early and working with delivery leadership to mitigate.

Job description

Accenture’s Salesforce Life Sciences practice is seeking a Senior Manager-level Functional Architect to own the architecture vision for large, multi-workstream programs. You will guide high-level decision making, mentor architects, and collaborate with alliance teams to leverage Salesforce capabilities in Life Sciences markets.

You will lead governance, communicate with VP/Director-level stakeholders, and shape the program's data strategy, integration, and implementation approaches across