Distinguished Enterprise Architect

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Connecticut · Remote

Salesforce is seeking a Distinguished Enterprise Architect for their Healthcare (Regulated Industries) Technical Architect team. This pre-sales role involves partnering with healthcare customers to drive digital transformation using Salesforce solutions, acting as a trusted advisor, and guiding customers towards successful long-term solutions. The architect will evangelize Salesforce platform capabilities, including AI features like Agentforce, and advise on AI and Data architecture principles. A key responsibility is to research, evaluate, and experiment with emerging AI and Data technologies, translating findings into practical knowledge for internal teams and customer solutions. The role requires strong communication, strategic thinking, and the ability to understand and translate business and IT requirements into compelling technical solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work with Payers, Providers, Pharma and Medtech companies to solve a wide variety of technical challenges using Salesforce solutions across our whole suite of products and clouds.
  2. Develop relationships with customer IT stakeholders, and help them to understand how the Salesforce platform fits into their overall technology strategy.
  3. Act as a trusted advisor, and guide customers towards solutions that have the greatest likelihood of long-term success.
  4. Hone knowledge of the Salesforce platform through hands-on training and exploration in the areas of customization, integration, and service delivery, and support our account-aligned solution engineers when this deeper level of expertise is needed to solve customer challenges.
  5. Evangelize the value proposition, benefits, and advantages, of the Salesforce Platform including Hyperforce, Data 360, Agentforce, Mulesoft, Informatica, Slack and more.

Skills

Required

  • Ability to understand business & IT department requirements, translate those business needs into a compelling solution, and present your recommendations to executive, technical, and business audience.
  • Exceptional executive presence and proven ability to articulate complex topics effectively to both C-suite leaders and technical practitioners.
  • Deep knowledge of enterprise software applications and their delivery, including several of the following: Some coding experience and a willingness to work with code (Apex, Node, Go, R, Java or C#, JavaScript, python, Ruby, etc.)
  • Database and data management fundamentals
  • Web and mobile application development and architecture
  • Application lifecycle management
  • Integration principles and tools
  • Enterprise data management tools and methods
  • Process orchestration
  • Principles of network, application, and information security
  • Experience with machine learning concepts (predictive and generative AI), plus the ability to communicate value to diverse audiences.
  • Deeply research, evaluate, and experiment with emerging AI and Data technologies, distilling practical, hands-on knowledge and patterns to enable internal teams and guide customer solutions.
  • Strong oral, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication and relationship skills.
  • Strategic thinker, thought leadership and comfort communicating with executive audiences.
  • Excellent time management skills and the ability to support multiple, concurrent projects.
  • Lifelong learner, inquisitive, practical, and passionate about technology and sharing knowledge.
  • Willing and able to travel domestically.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Data Science, Management Information Systems, other STEM degrees or equivalent work experience.

Nice to have

  • Experience working as an architect, solution engineer, IT consultant or developer in a customer facing role that provided differentiated software technology solutions.
  • Experience in roles that required working hands-on to build, implement, administer, or maintain enterprise software (e.g. software engineer, implementation architect, integration architect, or similar).
  • Understanding of risk mitigation, compliance and security.
  • Experience with design thinking, persona-based discovery or other innovation techniques.
  • Industry experience in Healthcare or Life Sciences space is a plus.
  • Knowledge of the Salesforce platform, including Salesforce Certifications

What the JD emphasized

  • Healthcare (Regulated Industries)
  • AI
  • Data architecture principles
  • machine learning concepts
  • predictive and generative AI
  • emerging AI and Data technologies

Other signals

  • AI CRM
  • Agentforce
  • AI and Data architecture principles
  • machine learning concepts (predictive and generative AI)
  • emerging AI and Data technologies