Strategic Life Sciences Salesforce Architect – Senior Manager

Accenture; Walnut Creek (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 302,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Long-term disability

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Salesforce Life Sciences Functional Architect at the Senior Manager level. You will own the overall solution vision for large, multi-workstream Life Sciences programs and guide senior delivery leads.

You’ll translate strategy into architecture, govern design decisions, and mentor next-gen SA talent. You will collaborate with Accenture's alliance teams and Salesforce product groups, shaping solutions and leading architecture discussions for senior client stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive Salesforce delivery experience with architecture leadership.
• Experience delivering multiple large Salesforce Life Sciences programs.
• Leadership in Agile or scaled Agile at program level (SAFe, multi-team Scrum).
• Experience with Life Sciences clouds and pharma/biotech CRM usage cases.
• Experience guiding delivery using AI/ML capabilities in Life Sciences.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall solution architecture vision for large Life Sciences Salesforce programs.
• Serve as senior liaison between business leadership and delivery teams.
• Lead architecture governance, design reviews and platform direction decisions.
• Act as primary escalation point for cross-workstream alignment.
• Advise senior client stakeholders translating architecture to business impact.
• Mentor and develop managers, senior SA leads, and tech leads.
• Collaborate with alliance teams and Salesforce product teams on solution approaches.
• Contribute to pursuit phases with architecture narratives and RFP demos.
• Develop reusable assets, blueprints, and industry-point-of-view content.
• Identify and mitigate program-level architectural risks.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Executive stakeholder management

Agile delivery leadership

Strategic architecture vision

Mentoring and coaching

Relationship management

Communication to VP/Director

Cross-workstream coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years)

Tools

Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud

Salesforce Health Cloud

MuleSoft

AI/ML tooling (Salesforce Einstein)

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Salesforce Life Sciences Functional Architect at the Senior Manager level. You will own the overall solution vision for large, multi-workstream Life Sciences programs and guide senior delivery leads.

You’ll translate strategy into architecture, govern design decisions, and mentor next-gen SA talent. You will collaborate with Accenture's alliance teams and Salesforce product groups, shaping solutions and leading architecture discussions for senior client stakeholders.