Senior Salesforce Life Sciences Architect & Strategy Leader

Accenture; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 133,000 - 302,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture’s Salesforce Life Sciences Practice seeks a Senior Manager Functional Architect to own the overall solution vision for large-scale programs, guiding architects and leads across multiple workstreams.

You will translate strategic intent into architecture direction, drive governance, mentor teams, and collaborate with alliance and Salesforce teams to leverage the latest platform capabilities in Life Sciences.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive Salesforce delivery experience in architecture or senior leadership roles.
• Experience delivering multiple large-scale Salesforce programs in Life Sciences or regulated industries.
• Experience with Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud (LSC) or Health Cloud and related commercial, medical, patient-facing use cases.
• Experience leading delivery using Agile/SAFe at program scale and shaping methodology decisions.
• Experience leveraging AI/ML capabilities within Life Sciences solutions and advising on AI strategy.
• Experience with Life Sciences clients at senior delivery or advisory level.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience (minimum 12 years).

Responsibilities

• Own the overall solution architecture vision for large-scale, multi-workstream Salesforce Life Sciences programs.
• Serve as the senior liaison translating strategic intent into architecture direction and leading teams.
• Lead architecture governance, set standards, conduct reviews, and decide on platform direction.
• Act as primary escalation point for delivery teams to resolve design conflicts.
• Advise senior client stakeholders on architecture and business impact narratives.
• Mentor and develop Manager-level architects and tech leads.
• Partner with alliance teams, Salesforce product teams, and vendors to shape solution approaches.
• Contribute to pursuit activities including architecture in RFPs and client demos.
• Drive reusable assets and architecture blueprints for Life Sciences space.
• Manage program-level risk and mitigation strategies.

Skills

Solution architecture

Senior platform leadership

Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud

Agile/SAFe

AI/ML capabilities

Client relationship

Executive communication

Mentoring

Architecture governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

MuleSoft

Salesforce Health Cloud

Job description

Accenture’s Salesforce Life Sciences Practice seeks a Senior Manager Functional Architect to own the overall solution vision for large-scale programs, guiding architects and leads across multiple workstreams.

You will translate strategic intent into architecture direction, drive governance, mentor teams, and collaborate with alliance and Salesforce teams to leverage the latest platform capabilities in Life Sciences.