Salesforce Life Sciences Functional Architect Senior Manager

Accenture•Kirkland, WA

4d•Remote

About The Position

Accenture’s Salesforce Business Group is seeking a Salesforce Life Sciences Functional Architect at the Senior Manager level. This role operates at the strategic and executive layer of delivery, owning the overall solution vision for large, complex programs while guiding and developing architects and leads. The ideal candidate is comfortable presenting architecture trade-offs to VPs and Directors, as well as diving into data models with developers. Clients trust this individual, and their teams learn from them.

Requirements

Minimum of 10 years of progressive Salesforce delivery experience, with demonstrated tenure in solution architecture or senior platform leadership roles
Experience architecting and delivering multiple large-scale, complex Salesforce programs in Life Sciences or an adjacent regulated industry (e.g., MedTech, Payer, Provider)
Experience with Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud (LSC), Health Cloud, or equivalent pharma/biotech CRM platforms and expertise in how these clouds are applied across commercial, medical, and patient-facing use cases
Experience leading delivery using Agile, hybrid, or scaled Agile frameworks at program scale (e.g., SAFe, multi-team Scrum) and shaping methodology decisions for the engagement
Experience leveraging AI/ML capabilities (e.g., Salesforce Einstein, Agentforce, generative AI tools) within Life Sciences commercial solutions, including ability to advise clients on AI strategy and adoption
Experience supporting Life Sciences clients and/or the Life Sciences industry at a senior delivery or advisory level
A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years’ work experience)

Nice To Haves

Salesforce Certified Application Architect, System Architect, or CTA (Certified Technical Architect) designation
Experience operating as a functional and technical hybrid — with enough depth on both sides to design end-to-end solutions without siloing into one lane
Deep integration architecture experience including MuleSoft, event-driven architectures, or enterprise API strategy in complex Life Sciences environments
Experience with commercial transformation programs in pharma/biotech: HCP engagement, field force enablement, patient services, or commercial data strategy
Pre-sales leadership experience including owning architecture narrative for competitive RFP responses and executive-level solution presentations
Relationship management experience at the Director and VP level with Life Sciences clients, with a track record of building trust and repeat engagement
Experience building and leading high-performing, geographically distributed delivery teams at Senior Manager level or above

Responsibilities

Own the overall solution architecture vision for large-scale, multi-workstream Salesforce Life Sciences programs, ensuring coherence across functional design, technical implementation, data strategy, and integration.
Serve as the senior liaison between business leadership and technical delivery teams — translating strategic intent into architecture direction and, where needed, stepping into a functional or technical lead capacity to break through design impasses, resolve ambiguity, or accelerate alignment across the program.
Lead architecture governance across the delivery program — setting standards, conducting design reviews, and making binding decisions on platform direction and technical approach.
Act as the primary solution escalation point for the delivery team; resolve cross-workstream design conflicts and align stakeholders on path forward.
Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior client stakeholders at the VP and Director level, translating complex architecture concepts into business impact narratives and facilitating alignment across business and technology leaders.
Guide and mentor Manager-level Solution Architects, senior functional leads, and tech leads; actively develop the next generation of SA talent within the practice.
Partner with Accenture’s alliance teams, Salesforce product teams, and third-party vendors to shape the solution approach and leverage the latest platform capabilities.
Lead solution design contributions during pursuit phases, including architecture sections of RFP responses, solution demonstrations, and client orals.
Drive practice development through reusable assets, architecture blueprints, and industry-specific point-of-view content for the Life Sciences commercial space.
Manage solution risk at the program level — identifying systemic architectural risks early and working with delivery leadership to mitigate.