Salesforce Architect - US Remote Position

NTT DATA Services•Remote, TX

1d•$128,858 - $238,625•Remote

About The Position

Our Salesforce Architects are fundamental to ensuring the digital technology and related services that NTT DATA builds for our clients are valuable, intuitive, and impactful. The work of Salesforce Architects provides our clients and team with support, leadership, and direction to make sure projects are executed well and to deliver the engagement as promised.

Requirements

15+ years overall technology experience
10+ years in Salesforce CPQ / Revenue Cloud architecture.
10+ years experience architecting enterprise CPQ / Quote-to-Cash implementations.
10+ years of Salesforce CPQ and Revenue Cloud Advanced / Revenue Lifecycle Management.
10+ years of Salesforce Sales Cloud and core platform architecture.
2+ years experience in Salesforce Agentforce and associated agentic architecture concepts.

Nice To Haves

Agent orchestration and tool/function calling.
Multi-agent architectures, delegation and coordination patterns.
Agent state, short/long-term memory and session/context management.
MCP and agent-to-agent interoperability concepts/patterns.
RAG, semantic/vector search, embeddings, chunking and retrieval optimization.
Context engineering beyond basic prompt engineering.
Evaluation frameworks and AI observability.
AI safety, grounding, guardrails and least-privilege action design.
LLM model selection and architectural trade-offs.
Classic NLP concepts including intent classification, entity extraction, semantic similarity and ranking.
Apex, Lightning Platform, Flow, APIs and enterprise integration patterns.
Strong understanding of asynchronous processing, transaction boundaries, resiliency, retries and idempotency.
Security architecture including sharing, CRUD/FLS, permission models and data protection.
Experience with MuleSoft and large enterprise integration landscapes preferred.
Ability to communicate architectural decisions to both engineering teams and senior business stakeholders.
Salesforce Application/System/Technical Architect credentials strongly preferred.
Agentforce and Revenue Cloud-related certifications or demonstrable implementation experience.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end solution architecture across Agentforce, Salesforce CPQ and Revenue Cloud Advanced.
Architect agent-assisted and agentic workflows across opportunity, configuration, pricing, quoting, contracting, ordering and revenue lifecycle processes.
Design agent orchestration patterns, including tool/function calling, workflow delegation, multi-agent patterns, state management and memory.
Architect integration of Agentforce with Salesforce automation, Apex, Flow, APIs, MuleSoft and external enterprise services.
Define appropriate use of LLMs, deterministic logic, workflow engines and traditional automation, rather than defaulting all use cases to generative AI.
Design context engineering and retrieval strategies, including structured/unstructured grounding, retrieval depth, metadata filtering and relevance optimization.
Establish secure agent action patterns using least-privilege access, guardrails, validation, approval checkpoints and human-in-the-loop mechanisms.
Define AI evaluation frameworks covering answer quality, grounding, hallucination, task completion, tool selection, latency and business outcomes.
Establish observability across agent reasoning paths, actions, integration failures, token/credit consumption and operational performance.
Assess model and platform trade-offs across quality, latency, context window, cost, privacy and enterprise constraints.
Architect resilient action layers and transactional integration patterns for revenue processes where consistency and recoverability are critical.
Advise programs on consumption-based economics, AI credit/token optimization and architectural approaches to control run-time cost.
Lead architecture reviews, design authorities and technical governance across global delivery teams.
Mentor technical architects, developers and Agentforce specialists.