Salesforce

Technical Architect-1

Salesforce$179K — $229K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or MIS
  • 7+ years in customer-facing solution or technical architecture roles
  • Expertise in building with Agentforce and Data Cloud
  • Fluency in agentic systems and AI concepts
  • Strong capabilities in technical and business discovery for MVP use cases
  • Understanding of enterprise data integration and architectural feasibility
  • Ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and C-suite executives

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver workshops, demos, and proof of concepts for customers
  • Lead technical and business discovery to define viable agentic use cases
  • Develop secure and scalable solutions for production readiness
  • Partner with customers on deployment strategies to ensure activation
  • Assess feasibility across various factors for scaling and adoption
  • Provide expert technical guidance to internal teams and customers
  • Monitor early performance and consumption for optimization opportunities

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional growth with access to training and certifications
  • Engagement in innovative projects that involve cutting-edge AI and data technologies
  • Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and industry experts
  • Participation in high-visibility customer and industry events like Dreamforce
Full Job Description

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 Category

Sales

Job Details

The Opportunity

As an AFD360 SE, you are a customer-facing technical trusted advisor and hands-on builder. You will lead technical discovery, shape and execute proof points in customer environments, guide production readiness, and establish a clear path to activation and consumption—blending executive presence with deep, full-stack technical skills across Salesforce, modern data architectures, and AI.

Role Description

The AFD360 SE (Agentforce + Data Cloud) is focused on a single transformative goal: helping customers become a true Agentic Enterprise by operationalizing Data + AI + Trust. You will serve as a definitive SME for Agentforce and Data Cloud and guide customers across the lifecycle—from technical evaluation and close through activation, adoption, and expansion.

Your Impact

  • Design and run workshops, demos, and time-boxed POCs/pilots—scope the work, define success metrics, execute, and deliver a clean handoff to production lanes

  • Lead deep technical + business discovery to scope MVP agentic use cases—translate outcomes/ROI into an executable architecture and activation plan

  • Build secure, scalable Agentforce + Data Cloud solutions to validate technical feasibility and production readiness

  • Drive activation—partner with customers on agent definition, configuration, and deployment strategy to accelerate production readiness

  • De-risk the path to value—assess feasibility across data, security/compliance, orchestration, and operational readiness to ensure the selected use case can scale and be adopted by real users

  • Serve as an expert technical overlay for internal teams and customers—accelerate scalable agent builds while enabling a self-sufficient agentic capability through reusable patterns, guardrails, and enablement

  • Evangelize Agentforce enablement across REG—socialize current capabilities, roadmap updates, and best practices; capture and scale field learnings

  • Work closely with Product, FDE, and cross-OU AI SMEs to continuously sharpen technical depth, close skill gaps, and influence roadmap through structured feedback loops

  • Identify automation and process improvement opportunities—intake both process and technical requirements to remove friction and accelerate activation

  • Monitor early consumption/performance; advise on optimization and consumption plan updates

  • Understand consumption levers and model anticipated consumption spend based on architecture and usage patterns

  • Own a crisp POCproduction transition—coordinate accountable delivery lanes (customer CoE, SI, ProServ, FDE, CS) and execute clean handoffs to ensure durable activation and scalable outcomes

  • Build reusable accelerators (POC assets, playbooks, best practices) and enable others to scale delivery

  • Drive Voice of the Customer into Product; inform messaging/plays with Product Marketing

  • Represent Salesforce at customer/industry events (Dreamforce, World Tours, etc.)

Required Qualifications

  • B.S. Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS

  • 7+ years customer-facing solution/technical architecture (pre-sales, consulting, implementation) with increasing scope/influence.

  • Hands-on Agentforce (AI) and Data Cloud builder who can prototype and unblock (deep expertise with platform patterns; building workflows/automation and guiding agent build and data 360 best practices).

  • Agentic + AI fluency: practical understanding of LLMs, RAG/grounding, evaluation concepts, and how agentic systems behave in production (safety, reliability, governance).

  • Deep discovery + MVP scoping: ability to run technical & business discovery to define MVP agentic use cases, success metrics, and a feasible execution plan.

  • Enterprise data/integration fundamentals: APIs/integration patterns, governance/security, and the ability to assess data readiness and architectural feasibility.

  • Executive + technical communication: able to lead whiteboards and communicate with developers and C-suite with equal fluency—translate architecture to outcomes/ROI.

  • Proven POC/pilot leadership: designs time-boxed proof points with measurable success criteria and clean transition to production lanes.

  • Growth mindset: willingness to continually sharpen technical/advisory skills through required enablement, labs, courses, and certifications.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Deep Data Cloud specialization: ingestion, modeling/harmonization, identity resolution, activation patterns; strong data architecture vocabulary (ETL/ELT, MDM, lake vs warehouse vs OLTP/OLAP).

  • Strong engineering depth: Apex and Lightning Web Components (or equivalent) and comfort operating across the SDLC; experience with 7vibe coding8 tooling is a plus.

  • SQL and/or Python proficiency (Jupyter/pandas helpful) and comfort with modern cloud data platforms/analytics tooling (Snowflake/Databricks/BigQuery; Tableau/Looker/Power BI).

  • Experience with other agent platforms (e.g., Gemini/Agentspace or similar) and broader AI automation implementations.

  • Consumption/business modeling: understands consumption levers and can map anticipated consumption spend from architecture/usage patterns (especially valuable for internal candidates).

  • Regulated industry background: HLS and/or FINS experience strongly preferred.

  • Salesforce certifications (AI Specialist, Data Cloud Consultant, Admin/Advanced Admin, App Dev).

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