Salesforce

Principal – Lead Enterprise Architect

Salesforce

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: ChicagoColoradoIllinoisUnited 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