Missionforce - Senior/Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (Salesforce Technical Architect), Public Sector

Salesforce•Herndon, VA

34d•$148,500 - $260,100•Onsite

About The Position

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) on our Public Sector team, you'll be embedded with the U.S. Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and Aerospace clients — designing and deploying bespoke AI solutions that drive mission-critical outcomes. Additionally you'll architect the backbone of a planet-scale platform that ships hundreds of features daily with rock-solid reliability and security. This role demands a builder's mindset, an AI-first approach, and the technical depth to take complex challenges from concept to production.

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
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
Ability to travel 25–50% of the time, as needed to customer sites.
Active Secret clearance preferred
Must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) living on U.S. soil who does not hold dual citizenship with the ability to meet customer and government screening standards applicable to this role.
Qualification for this job is contingent upon acceptable results from a background investigation as well as your having and maintaining the specific level of U.S. government background investigation and clearance required for this role.
This candidate must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) who does not hold dual citizenship and agrees to complete a U.S. federal government Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) for a Moderate Public Trust position.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or a related quantitative discipline. Equivalent demonstrable work experience in lieu of a degree will be considered
Background in defense/aerospace, classified environments (IL5/IL6), or federal civilian agencies
Ability to convey and convince customers of best practices at various levels within a large organization
Application design and development background
Strong Enterprise Architecture background would be favorable
Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) or multiple Salesforce Architecture certifications

Responsibilities

Serve as the technical lead on high-profile customer engagements—designing, building, and deploying tailored Salesforce solutions for defense, intelligence, and aerospace missions.
Engineer distributed systems running across thousands of compute nodes on AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba Cloud
Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), microservices (Kubernetes, Docker), and data pipelines
Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow by pushing the boundaries of AI development tools to deliver secure, optimized, and high-quality code.
Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.
Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.
Critically evaluate code (human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
Partner directly with customers and mission stakeholders to translate complex needs into technical solutions
Lead rapid prototyping, root cause analysis, and best-practice evangelism across teams
Mentor junior engineers and serve as a technical role model