
Principal – Lead Enterprise Architect
Salesforce
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Colorado • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $148,190 - $291,690 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Collaborate cross-functionally with sales, solutions, go-to-market teams, product management, customer success, and partners to accelerate strategic customer engagements
- Help define the future of work as Salesforce customers adopt data excellence and AI-driven solutions
- Support customers across the full lifecycle ensuring solutions are successfully architected, adopted, deliver measurable value, and scale over time
- Stay current with emerging technology trends and their business implications
- Lead customer engagements focused on AI, data, and process transformation
- Build customer architectures on Salesforce’s deeply unified platform leveraging Agentforce and D360
- Guide customers through digital transformation initiatives from strategy through adoption and value realization
- Create scalable, implementable architectures aligned to business outcomes
Requirements
- 10+ years in enterprise, software, or systems architecture roles
- Proven consulting background with direct customer engagement, especially in pre-sales or advisory roles
- Salesforce multi-cloud architecture experience and ability to whiteboard enterprise solutions
- Strong knowledge of: Cloud-native architecture (SaaS, PaaS, multi-tenancy)
- Enterprise data strategy and system integration
- AI/ML, automation, and business process orchestration
- Enterprise security in cloud/hybrid environments
- Excellent storytelling and communication skills—comfortable presenting to both technical and executive stakeholders
- Experience supporting customers across both pre-sale and post-sale lifecycle phases is a plus
Benefits
- time off programs
- medical
- dental
- vision
- mental health support
- paid parental leave
- life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- employee stock purchasing program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
enterprise architecturesoftware architecturesystems architectureSalesforce multi-cloud architecturecloud-native architectureSaaSPaaSAI/MLautomationbusiness process orchestration
Soft Skills
storytellingcommunicationcustomer engagementcollaborationleadershippresentation skillsstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingadaptabilityconsulting