Salesforce

Life Sciences Senior Technical Architect

Salesforce$172K — $260K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in enterprise architecture or consulting
  • 4+ years leading Salesforce Core Projects
  • Strong application design, data, integration, and security architecture skills
  • Experience in the Life Sciences industry, especially Pharma/Biopharma
  • Strong presentation and communication skills
  • Detail-oriented and quick to learn new technologies
  • Proven ability to analyze and optimize business processes

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to clients
  • Lead internal strategic initiatives for practice growth
  • Guide customers in deploying emerging technologies
  • Collaborate effectively with strong communication skills
  • Proactively manage risk areas to resolution
  • Negotiate complex solutions with customers and partners
  • Review and correct project direction to ensure maintainability
  • Architect technology solutions tailored to client needs

Benefits

  • Comprehensive resources for work-life balance
  • Support for personal and professional growth
  • Cutting-edge tools to enhance job performance
  • Opportunity to make a significant impact in the industry
  • Access to learning and development programs
  • Innovative company culture fostering collaboration
Full Job Description
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Job Category
Customer Success

Job Details

Role Overview

Salesforce Professional Services is looking for a Senior Technical Architect focused on Agentforce for Life Sciences (AFLS). AFLS is one of Salesforce's fastest-growing and most strategic product areas and now adopted by more than 140 industry-leading organizations globally.
In this role, you will serve as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform expert to the company's largest, most complex life sciences enterprise customers, helping them architect and deliver agentic, AI-first solutions across their commercial and clinical operations.

Key Responsibilities
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to the client
  • Identify and lead internal strategic initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serving as an active contributor to the community's overall knowledge base and expertise
  • Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value
  • Work collaboratively and having very strong communications skills, especially in teaching complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking
  • 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
  • Work closely with Delivery Managers, Solution Architects, and directly with clients to architect technology solutions to meet client needs
  • Contribute to a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies on enabling technologies including the Salesforce Platform

Minimum Requirements
  • 8+ years enterprise architecture or consulting experience
  • 4+ years of experience leading Salesforce Core Projects
  • Strong application design skills combined with strong data, integration, and security architecture skills
  • Experience in the Life Sciences industry, particularly Pharma/Biopharma. Candidates should have backgrounds in pharmaceutical commercial operations, field force engagement, HCP/HCO relationship management, or regulatory compliance
  • Strong presentation skills, able to effectively present and defend a point of view to a variety of audiences
  • 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
  • A great listener with the ability to communicate with people in diverse roles
  • Proven ability to analyze, design, and optimize business processes via technology and integration
  • Resourceful and innovative thinker who can work through and solve problems
  • Strong experience in Integration concepts, designs, and patterns

Required Qualities
  • TRUST: Trusts the company's core values; shows integrity, transparency, and reliability
  • TEAM PLAYER: Proficient at collaboration and working with members of a team
  • COMMUNICATOR: Speaks and writes with clarity, brevity, and purpose; explains the area of expertise clearly and confidently to others; influences and engages C-Level with authority and confidence

Preferred Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline; equivalent work experience will be considered
  • Multiple Salesforce Architecture certifications, or Salesforce Certified Agentforce Life Sciences Consultant (launched March 2026)
  • Hands-on experience with Agentforce for Life Sciences (AFLS) or equivalent Life Sciences CRM platforms, including knowledge of HCP/HCO structures, Affiliations, Specialty Pharmacy, Medical Affairs, and compliant engagement workflows
  • Experience supporting or delivering implementations for major pharmaceutical companies, with familiarity with the agentic enterprise model and how AI agents can transform life sciences commercial and clinical operations


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