Senior Solution Architect - (Generative AI-Agentforce)

Company: Salesforce, Inc.
Location: New York
Posted on: April 17, 2025

Job Description:

Senior Solution Architect - (Generative AI-Agentforce)Apply remote type Remote Customer-Based locations New York - Remote Indiana - Remote California - Remote Georgia - Remote Washington - Remote time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id JR267403To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.About SalesforceWe're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too - driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good - you've come to the right place.The Solution Architect leads one or more workstreams in complex enterprise customer engagements, partnering with key collaborators to drive and achieve the vision while completing key deliverables. They serve as hands-on advisors, using strong interpersonal skills, solution and/or technical knowledge, Salesforce product knowledge, industry experience, consulting experience, and knowledge of their client's business to deliver customer return on investment.Solution Architects are strong presenters and facilitators that are able to co-create the vision and lead the execution with the customer as well as acquire customer acceptance of the delivered solution. They are capable of driving difficult conversations and removing roadblocks to implement the business strategies. They are proficient at analyzing issues and obstacles to settle root cause, and can identify appropriate corrective action. They communicate with technical and business team members from all levels through C-suite. On a day to day basis, they interact with customer product owner, business process owner and technical resources to understand requirements, analyze information, and craft comprehensive solutions. They also show a strong understanding of typical business challenges or common objectives faced by customers within the industry.Solution Architects are stewards of the Professional Services Methodology and use their networks to ensure that standard processes are followed. They engage with Customer Success and Product teams to ensure the solutions are driving the most effective achievement of the value objectives. Solution Architects supply to thought leadership and standard processes by engaging with the cloud-specific practices teams. They will supply both internally in their Community and externally in the marketplace.Your ImpactSalesforce Professional Services is looking for a Solution Architect. As a Solution Architect, you will be serving as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform guide to the company's largest, most sophisticated enterprise customers. Here are some salient responsibilities the role entails:

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the client
• Identify and lead internal pivotal initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serve as an active contributor to the community's overall knowledge base and expertise
• Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying new technologies that drive increased business value
• Work collaboratively and have very strong communications skills, especially in teaching sophisticated concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking across various levels of a client organization
• Identify and proactively run risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution
• Lead customer expectations; negotiate solutions to sophisticated problems with both the customer and third-party partners
• Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forward
• Drive a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies to enable technologies including the Salesforce platformMinimum Requirements
  • 5+ years of confirmed experience in enterprise-level projects using both waterfall and agile software development methodologies throughout the whole life cycle with repeated and shown success
  • Extensive experience with configuration and customization on the Salesforce platform
  • Authority level experience defining the system architecture landscape, identifying gaps between current and desired end-states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will enable achievement of the desired business outcomes
  • Experience leading discovery sessions, defining business requirements, writing user stories and providing detailed system and functional designs
  • Key Einstein Tooling Including: Agent Studio (Copilot) Prompt Builder, OOTB AI GenAI & Predictive Features (Case Classification, Predictive tooling, etc), DataCloud (External Data Input), structured and unstructured data, and embedding into systems, Experience Cloud (MIAW, Omni-Channel setup experience).
  • AI and Integration Focus: Must have hands-on experience with Einstein in Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud.
  • Experience in detailing business processes and wire-framing system designs using process flow diagram tools, UML, sequence diagrams, etc. as well as making recommendations for future state improved processes and system designs
  • Strong presentation skills; able to optimally present a point of view and clearly articulate the rationale to a variety of team members
  • Detailed 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
  • Must be a standout colleague as demonstrated through a customer qualification of a large scale/enterprise implementation with multiple work streams
  • A great listener with the ability to communicate with people in diverse roles
  • Resourceful and entrepreneurial thinker who can work through and solve problems
  • Possible travel of about 25%, but exact travel requirements will vary based on customer
  • Degree or equivalent proven experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the strengths you'll need for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.Preferred Requirements
    • Validated results in delivering high value business outcomes using an agile approach
    • Shown results leading customer and/or partner success stories
    • Data Cloud Implementation.
    • Experience Design.
    • API frameworks / Mulesoft.
    • Change Management & working with Evaluation Models.
    • Relevant Salesforce certifications and consulting experience are strongly recommended
    • Industry Experience: None needed but multi-industry exposure looked highly uponAccommodationsIf you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.Posting StatementSalesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that's inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications - without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.For New York-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $162,600 to $223,700. For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $147,800 to $203,300. For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $162,600 to $223,700. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: .
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