Senior Technical Migration Lead - End-to-End Cloud Moves

Salesforce; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,100 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Employee stock purchasing program

Paid time off

Job summary

Salesforce is recruiting for a Technical Migration Senior Lead in the United States (Chicago area). The role leads complex customer migration engagements from kickoff to go-live, combining technical delivery with strategic advisory to ensure measurable value.

You will coordinate with the GDC and partner teams, stay aligned with product roadmaps, and drive AI-enabled data mapping and automation. The senior leader will own migration health, timelines, and customer outcomes while building trust

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Professional Services, Customer Success, or Technical Consulting.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end customer migration engagements—owning technical delivery, project health, and go-live outcomes.
• Partner with Account Teams and Sales leadership to align migration goals with customers’ broader business strategy, renewal, and expansion objectives.
• Build strong relationships with business and technical stakeholders, translating complex migration challenges into actionable decisions.
• Develop and execute focused delivery plans that prioritize high-impact milestones and hold pod-level timelines to account.
• Facilitate enablement and alignment sessions to ensure customer teams are prepared for platform transitions.
• Drive adoption of AI agents and automation toolkits to accelerate data mapping, code conversion, and discovery—reducing manual effort and compressing delivery timelines.
• Collaborate closely with GDC partners, delegating repeatable tasks while maintaining accountability for output quality.
• Work with Outbound Product Managers to stay current on product roadmaps and translate field insights into product improvements.
• Identify underutilized platform capabilities and integrate them into migration roadmaps to increase customer throughput and adoption.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert in at least one key domain: Marketing Cloud, Data360, Revenue Cloud, or Tableau.
• Apply AI literacy and prompt-engineering skills to guide AI agents in data retrieval, migration health reporting, and task automation.
• Act as the technical point of contact during major migration incidents, coordinating with Engineering and Product to protect customer operations during cutover phases.
• Monitor technical trends proactively and provide tailored release recommendations to optimize migrated environments for performance and stability.

Skills

Migration consulting

Salesforce cloud domains

Stakeholder management

AI automation

Education

Degree or equivalent

Job description

Salesforce is recruiting for a Technical Migration Senior Lead in the United States (Chicago area). The role leads complex customer migration engagements from kickoff to go-live, combining technical delivery with strategic advisory to ensure measurable value.

You will coordinate with the GDC and partner teams, stay aligned with product roadmaps, and drive AI-enabled data mapping and automation. The senior leader will own migration health, timelines, and customer outcomes while building trust