Senior Solution Architect - Agentforce Contact Center

Leadout Capital; Illinois; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce Professional Services seeks a Sr. Solution Architect to champion the PACE organization and act as a trusted advisor for large enterprise clients.

You will lead one or more workstreams, guiding deployment of Salesforce technologies and AI toolchains while ensuring business outcomes, risk mitigation, and strong executive communication. This role requires strategic thinking and hands-on architectural delivery.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Agentforce Contact Center and Salesforce products.
• Expert-level ability to define system architectures and gaps to end-states.
• Experience leading discovery sessions and writing detailed designs.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to teach complex concepts.
• Experience delivering value through agile methods and client success.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% for client engagements.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic advisor for PACE industry clients on Salesforce platform solutions.
• Guide clients in deploying emerging technologies to drive business value.
• Lead collaboration across teams to keep programs on track and extensible.
• Clarify program direction, negotiate solutions, and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Co-create visions and own execution with customers and partners.

Skills

Strategic advisory

Client communication

Presentation skills

Requirements gathering

Risk management

Mentoring/teaching

Travel up to 50%

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Agentforce Contact Center

Claude

Cursor

Elements Cloud

Job description

The Experience

Join Salesforce Professional Services as a Solution Architect championing our PACE (Product, Automotive, Consumer, Energy) organization. You’ll serve as a trusted strategic advisor and platform expert focusing on Agentforce Contact Center for our largest, most complex enterprise customers.

The Sr. Solution Architect leads one or more workstreams in sophisticated enterprise customer engagements, partnering with key collaborators to drive and achieve the vision while completing key deliverables. They serve as hands-on advisors, using strong communication skills, solution and/or technical knowledge, Salesforce product knowledge, industry experience, consulting experience, and knowledge of their client’s business to deliver customer return on investment.

Solution Architects are strong presenters and facilitators that are able to co-create the vision and own the execution with the customer as well as acquire customer acceptance of the delivered solution. They are capable of driving difficult conversations and removing roadblocks to implement the business strategies. They are proficient at analyzing issues and obstacles to resolve root cause, and can identify appropriate corrective action. They connect with technical and business customers from all levels through C-suite. On a day to day basis, they interact with customer product owner, business process owner and technical resources to understand requirements, analyze information, and craft comprehensive solutions. They also show a strong understanding of typical business challenges or common objectives faced by customers within the industry.

What You’ll Actually Be Doing

• Serve as a strategic, trusted advisor for our PACE (Product, Automotive, Consumer, Energy) industry clients, leveraging deep expertise in Agentforce Contact Center
• Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value
• Guiding agents to support delivery outcomes
• Work collaboratively and having very strong communications skills, especially in teaching complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking across various levels of a client organization
• Identify and proactively manage risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution
• Manage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party partners
• Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forward
• Drive a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies to enable technologies including the Salesforce platform

You’re Our Person If…

• Extensive experience with configuration and customization with Agentforce Contact Center
• Ability to drive agentic delivery, with experience in AI toolchains (eg. Claude, Cursor, Elements Cloud, etc.)
• Expert level experience defining the system architecture landscape, identifying gaps between current and desired end-states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will enable achievement of the desired business outcomes
• Experience leading discovery sessions, defining business requirements, writing user stories and providing detailed system and functional designs
• Experience in documenting business processes and wire-framing system designs using process flow diagram tools, UML, sequence diagrams, etc. as well as making recommendations for future state improved processes and system designs
• Strong presentation skills; able to effectively present a point of view and clearly articulate the rationale to a variety of stakeholders
• Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal; able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience
• Must be a team player as demonstrated through a customer qualification of a large scale/enterprise implementation with multiple work streams
• A great listener with the ability to communicate with people in diverse roles
• Resourceful and innovative thinker who can work through and solve problems
• Travel up to 50%

Even Better If…

• Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in a Technology, Engineering (any field) or a related quantitative discipline. Equivalent demonstrable work experience in lieu of a degree will be considered
• Proven results in delivering high value business outcomes utilizing an agile approach
• Proven results leading customer and/or partner success stories
• Relevant Salesforce certifications & Accreditations
• Consulting experience is strongly recommended