Distinguished, Enterprise Architect

Salesforce•New Jersey - Remote, NJ

6d•$236,810 - $348,390

About The Position

The Distinguished Solution Architect is one of the most senior solution architecture practitioners in Salesforce’s Solution Engineering organization. The role helps strategic customers become Agentic Enterprises by designing transformative enterprise architectures that use the Salesforce Platform, including Agentforce and Data Cloud, alongside enterprise applications, data platforms, integration technologies, and partner ecosystems. This role shapes architectural strategy, influences Salesforce product and technology direction, and serves as an authority on enterprise solution architecture. It leads complex, high-value customer engagements from pre-sales through adoption, guiding executive-level conversations with business and technology leaders. The architect establishes reusable architecture patterns, reference architectures, and best practices that advance customer outcomes across the Salesforce ecosystem. The position also collaborates across Solution Engineering, Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, Professional Services, and partners; creates and shares thought leadership; mentors architects and engineers; and contributes to architectural governance, technical enablement, and innovation initiatives. The role is expected to meet annual business objectives, maintain accurate architectural documentation, and continually expand expertise in Salesforce technologies, AI, enterprise architecture, and emerging technologies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
At least 4 years of professional experience in Solution Engineering, Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Technical Consulting, Software Engineering, or another customer-facing technical role.
Extensive experience designing enterprise solutions for complex business and technology environments.
Deep expertise across multiple Salesforce platform capabilities, including Agentforce, Data Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, MuleSoft, Slack, Tableau, Platform technologies, and AI capabilities.
Experience designing scalable enterprise solutions on public cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
Knowledge of enterprise applications, relational databases, ERP technologies, APIs, integration patterns, middleware, event-driven architectures, and modern enterprise application design.
Strong understanding of enterprise AI architecture, autonomous agents, AI governance, security, compliance, and responsible AI.
Knowledge of enterprise data architecture, Master Data Management, analytics, data governance, and AI-ready data strategies.
Strong oral, written, presentation, collaboration, and interpersonal communication skills.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executive and technical audiences.
Ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams to solve complex technical problems in diverse and dynamic organizational environments.
Experience influencing executive stakeholders, including CIOs, CTOs, business executives, and enterprise architects.
Demonstrated organizational impact through reusable architecture assets, frameworks, standards, or thought leadership adopted beyond an immediate team.

Nice To Haves

Salesforce certifications across one or more product domains.
Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) certification or progress toward advanced Architect certifications.
Previous experience as a Solution Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solution Architect, Technical Architect, Enterprise Architect, or equivalent customer-facing technical leadership role.
Experience integrating Salesforce with enterprise applications, analytics platforms, collaboration tools, and partner technologies.
Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent methodologies.
Experience with design thinking, value-based selling, executive consulting, and enterprise transformation initiatives.
Software development experience with modern programming languages and enterprise application development.
Experience working with AI-powered development tools and modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities

Define and lead enterprise solution architecture strategy for Salesforce’s most strategic and complex customer engagements.
Architect end-to-end Agentic Enterprise solutions using Agentforce, Data Cloud, and the broader Salesforce Platform.
Design enterprise AI interoperability and scalable architectures across Salesforce and third-party ecosystems.
Develop thought leadership on enterprise architecture, AI governance, security, compliance, and responsible AI.
Create reusable architecture frameworks, reference architectures, best practices, and implementation patterns for Solution Engineering.
Lead executive architecture workshops, technical discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and strategic solution design engagements.
Translate complex business challenges into scalable enterprise solution architectures and transformation roadmaps.
Build solution proposals that balance immediate business value with long-term architectural strategy.
Partner with executive stakeholders to shape technical strategy before active sales cycles begin.
Design solutions focused on customer adoption, consumption, business outcomes, and long-term success.
Provide architectural governance and implementation guidance for Salesforce Professional Services and partner organizations.
Collaborate across Solution Engineering, Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, Professional Services, and the partner ecosystem.
Influence Salesforce product strategy, architecture standards, and technical best practices.
Establish architectural governance and technical handoff standards that maintain solution integrity throughout the customer lifecycle.
Contribute to AI Centers of Excellence, innovation initiatives, and technical strategy programs.
Publish thought leadership on enterprise architecture, AI transformation, Agentforce, Data Cloud, and Salesforce platform strategy.
Lead architecture enablement programs, architecture forums, and technical education initiatives.
Mentor Solution Architects and Solution Engineers and establish standards for architectural excellence.
Represent Salesforce at executive briefings, conferences, customer events, and industry forums.
Achieve annual business objectives and strategic customer engagement goals.
Maintain accurate architectural documentation and customer engagement records.
Continuously expand expertise across Salesforce technologies, AI capabilities, enterprise architecture, and emerging technologies.