Job Summary:
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, driving customer success through innovation. The Data 360 Senior Technical Architect serves as a technical advisor to enterprise customers, while also enabling internal teams with expertise in Data 360, ensuring successful project delivery and knowledge scaling.
Responsibilities:
• Serve as the go-to subject matter expert on Salesforce Data 360 for internal teams and enterprise customers, providing deep insight into its capabilities, technical architecture, potential applications, and crucial limitations. Advise definitively on optimal use cases, implementation patterns, and architectural options for specific use cases.
• Act as a senior escalation point for critical or complex Data 360 project challenges, providing expert diagnosis, recommending strategic and technical solutions, and guiding teams toward successful resolution.
• Partner with customers and account teams to assess business challenges, identify high-impact use cases, define solution scope, develop detailed technical designs, and articulate the business value of proposed solutions to foster successful adoption and identify future opportunities.
• Lead and contribute to mentorship and enablement programs, developing and delivering technical content, documenting reference architectures, building reusable assets and patterns, and running internal training sessions to scale Data 360 knowledge within CSG.
• Maintain a high degree of expertise on the rapidly evolving product roadmap and the broader data platform landscape through continuous self-directed learning.
• Provide critical "Voice of the Customer" feedback to Product and Engineering organizations based on field experience, directly contributing to product enhancements and future features.
• Actively partner with GTM counterparts during pre-sales activities by providing expert technical validation, shaping scope, and contributing to the development of future Services offerings.
• Manage parallel engagements across multiple (typically 2-3) strategic clients simultaneously, meeting a utilization target of 50%.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Practical, hands-on, real-life Data 360 experience guiding customers on the successful use of the platform.
• Salesforce Data 360 Consultant certification is required.
• Strong understanding of data management concepts for structured and unstructured data within the Salesforce ecosystem (including Salesforce CRM and Data 360) and external systems, including data integration, transformation (ETL/ELT), and data governance considerations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence a group audience, facilitate solutioning and lead discussions such as implementation methodology, architectural roadmaps, enterprise transformation strategy, and executive-level requirement gathering sessions.
• Experience with AI-related data integration technologies and concepts, including RAG, vector databases, search indexes, and knowledge bases, specifically how they apply to grounding Agentforce solutions with enterprise data.
• Strong aptitude toward communicating complex business and technical concepts using visualization and modeling aids, and the ability to conceptualize and create sophisticated diagrams and documents.
• BA/BS degree or foreign equivalent in a technical or related field.
• Willingness to travel when needed (expected to be less than 10%).
Preferred:
• Customer Data Platform (CDP) and data warehouse experience preferred, e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, SQL Server, etc.
• Relevant Salesforce experience in Agentforce, Sales Cloud, and Service Cloud, including related certifications (Salesforce Administrator, Sales Cloud Consultant, Service Cloud Consultant, Agentforce Specialist, and Agentblazer Legend) are a strong plus.
• Knowledge of Data Governance, Data Security, and Data Privacy concepts and regulations is preferred.
Company:
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.