Senior/Lead Technical Architect

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job CategorySales Job Details About SalesforceSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. The Salesforce Cloud Technical Architect is a pre-sales customer-facing enterprise domain expert applying broad technical skills, with industry knowledge and deep business acumen, supporting sales teams in developing Salesforce value propositions that align to our customers' business strategies on digital transformation and cloud adoption. The Salesforce Cloud Technical Architect is a subject matter expert in one or more categories that may include: business strategy, application architecture, data & information, integration, security, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, distributed platforms, mobile, and analytics. With a solid blend of technical and sales skills, the Salesforce Cloud Technical Architect uses a consultative approach to understand business and technical requirements.The Salesforce Cloud Technical Architect determines which Salesforce and third party technologies to leverage in customer driven architectures, based upon product knowledge, industry experience, industry standard integration frameworks and Salesforce Architecture methodologies.With a broad IT background including solution architecture, technical architecture, software/systems engineering, cloud computing, and governance, the Salesforce Cloud Technical Architect leads key discussions and considerations around change programs from both a business and technical perspective. The Salesforce Cloud Technical Architect helps the sales teams develop specific, repeatable propositions and go to market strategies.The Salesforce Cloud Technical Architect also participates in the delivery of solution best practices, reference architectures, educational sessions and industry summits to existing customers, partners and to internal audiences. Job Description * Work with customers to address and solve a wide variety of technical challenges, meshing the agile capabilities of the Salesforce Platform and portfolio solutions with the technologies the customer already has in place. * Develop relationships with customer IT/technical stakeholders, and help them to understand how the Salesforce platform fits into their overall technology strategy. * Act as a trusted advisor, and guide customers towards solutions that have the greatest likelihood of long-term success. * Hone your own knowledge of the Salesforce product suite through hands-on training and exploration in the areas of customization, integration, and delivery, and support our account-aligned solution engineers when this deeper level of expertise is needed to solve customer challenges. * Evangelize the value proposition, benefits, and advantages, of the Salesforce Platform including Data Cloud, Agentforce, AI. High level familiarity with Tableau, Mulesoft, Slack and more is a bonus. Educate customers and peers on the ways to solution using the salesforce product suite. * Strong understanding of AI and Data architecture principles and the competitive landscape. * Understand and advise on the broad ecosystem of ISV and partner solutions that cooperate and integrate with Salesforce. * Guide deal strategy by providing insight into the technica